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Make you a Deal........
Friday, December 21, 2001 at 6:51 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Tom S
(200 messages posted)
Say Eric, I'll happily give you $10 for the XP that didn't work... c'mon, make me
a deal. If it's that bad, I'll give you ten bucks for the legal CD.....
On Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 12:56 pm, EricWest wrote:
>I recently tried an upgrade from 98. By the time I got the incompatability report,
>there wasn't anything but my old MS
>mouse and possibly my monitor that would work.
>
>The worst was the motherboard, a fairly recent Abit BE6II wasn't one of the ones
>the tech at MS said would work. The Highpoint
>366 Udma Controller was the "blocking issue".
>
>From what the tech at MS told me there is a huge money grab going on from hard and
>software companies including MS to get the bucks and worry about compatability
>"issues" later.
>
>The MS Techs I've dealt with have all been top of the line, and this guy was no
exception.
>( pun intended)
>
>None of my Norton stuff would work. No Adaptec stuff works, very few CDRWs ( lot's
>of them have Adaptec SW), and that's just the stuff that's "known".
>
>I ended up getting an upgrade of my early (ver 4.10.1998) Win98SE to a later 4.10.2222
>version.
>
>The whole debacle was over installing a new 1394 card and a Sony CRX1650L-A2.
>
>After I did the upgrade to xxxxx.2222 it went in, patched to accept the CDRW, and
>it Runs GREAT.
>
>Wrte speed really IS 16x. RW really is 10x, and the "B's" software really DOES make
>the RW work
>like a 650meg floppy.
>
>Got a 4 year warrantee, and will try to use it in a couple years.
>
>Now, to the JVC Mini Dv...
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