<help!> Need help with HP Vectra

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Tue Sep 26 02:19:48 2000

>>Having so recently won the battle with a HP pavillion (k62-366 6360), my
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>FYI: if your running an AMD K6-2 faster than 266mhz you need a
>patch from the MS download site as there is a bug in W95 that it trips
>up.

I'm using W98, but I have the patch (or a speed related patch anyway).
Lesson one for me was "carefully" make note of ALL the stinkin patches,
then logically work through them all. I flashed the bios, applied all the
W98 stuff, then applications. What is really annoying are the number of CDs
that fairly insist on installing directx of some ancient version, for "best
results".

The KILLER though for a Pavillion at least, is that W98 always thinks its
stuff is the best, so if you redetect some hardware it will "SAY" whatever
it has is the "BEST". So many microseconds after the HP specific driver
gets replaced you lockup and get to pursue manually restoring stuff in safe
mode.

Its actually really stinking just how well this system is running right
now. Everything I toss at it, and its been a loading testing frenzy of
boxes of old games, has worked just fine EXCEPT some of the really old DOS
stuff. Maybe I am just better off running that on an older system anyway,
like a 486/100 or that Vectra 5/75.
Received on Tue Sep 26 2000 - 02:19:48 BST