Computer wizards - I need your help!!
#17
As a computer shop owner in the Houston area, I see this kind of stuff everyday. XP works beautiful on allot of different apps and hardware, but pukes real bad on others. certain things happen, when you add certain programs, for instance b4 Roxio came out with their latest version of ezcd creator, (yuck) when you installed it on xp it would change up the cdrom driver to what they thought would be better than the ms' version, consequently the driver would fail, and an xp restore or cdrom.sys file replacement was needed just to see the cdrom drives again. since, they have revised the program so that it truely works with the msxp driver. and that is on the generic systems. Companies like Compuke, Dell,Gateway and HPos, create their own, or have 3rd party programmers create drivers that work with their particular hardware/os config. so wiping the system usually leads to problems. Eg. gateway has their own custom made Radeon VE video card, so getting driver from ATI won't work very well with the card..same with some modems, so it's off to gateway.com you go. On a side note, I have been doing this since the late 80's, and afaik, I am the only one around that has a complete AMD/XP system on WinXP running in my car! (see it at Fordfestiva.com )
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#19
Originally posted by kc5zom
Which store do you run?
Which store do you run?
Dj
#20
Originally posted by TheMAN
lol
people have been enjoying that with UNIX for years... my BSD box has been running for over a year and a half now with only 2 reboots (maintanence and moving)
my NT machine can run fine for a month before I need to reboot... been enjoying that for years too
lol
people have been enjoying that with UNIX for years... my BSD box has been running for over a year and a half now with only 2 reboots (maintanence and moving)
my NT machine can run fine for a month before I need to reboot... been enjoying that for years too
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