From: Lou (louw_at_prefer.net)
Date: Sat May 25 2002 - 00:14:51 EDT
Thanks but I will stay away from XP for sometime longer.
BTW, there was a difference. IBM support sent me a new set of CDs. I used
them. I don't know if this made a difference or not.
Whatever, the system is working
At 08:11 PM 5/24/2002, you wrote:
>Sounds like you might have a bad drive. I've seen some
>that test good but take forever to do anything and
>instead of 45 minutes to install Windows, it says that
>it will take 600.
>If W2K runs ok that is a good indication that XP would
>work also and you can dump the worthless W2K. Some
>like it but I hate it myself since for me it crashes
>all the time and has endless problems. XP runs
>flawlessly except for all the annoying help baloons
>that tend to pop up. Most applications for W2K and
>Win98 and DOS will usually run in XP, I haven't found
>anything that don't work so far, unlike W2K. And if
>you have an ATI video chip and need a driver XP
>supports some of them but forget it in W2K.
>
>--- Lou <louw_at_prefer.net> wrote:
> > I have no idea what changed. I repeated the steps
> > that I had given by IBM
> > support which had not worked at all since Sunday.
> >
> > Support finally relented and were going send me a
> > shipping box and allow me
> > to send it in.
> >
> > However the 60 GB drive I had gotten arrived today
> > and of course I had to
> > see if it worked.
> >
> > So I removed the combination NIC card/modem as
> > directed (which had no
> > effect at least once). Inserted the CD-ROM
> > recovery.
> >
> > Between 60 and 90 minutes later Win2k was working at
> > the correct resolution
> > and speed. (so far). A search of the 60 GB drive
> > took less than 5 seconds,
> > not the 5 minutes the 30 GB took (BTW, several
> > different hard drive testers
> > found absolutely no errors!!!.)
> >
> > Now all I have to do is to reinstall the 2 dozen +
> > apps I had before.
> >
> > Many thanks to those who sent ideas along. You help
> > and moral support is
> > greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Warm regards
> > Lou
> >
>
>
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Warm regards
Lou
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