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Carl:
I am certainly a long way from being a whiz kid myself. It doesn't look to
me like you will have any other choice than to do what you suggest. It may
help to contact the manufacturer and ask them. One of the problems that
occur with warranties from the manufacturer is that they don't want you to
change anything as long as the warranty, i.e., my son had a prebuilt machine
with Windows 95 on it. When my son installed an upgrade to Windows 98 he
had some problems and called the help desk. The help desk basically told
him that the modification was not what they sold him and they couldn't help
him. That is when we started building our own computers.
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl" <realpeace@xxxxxxxx>
To: "David J. Slavik" <djstrade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: Off Topic - OS Reinstall
> Hi David:
>
> I think many may be interested in your post-thanks.
>
> Your mention of pre-built machines brings to mind the two that I
> have.Neither one includes an original Windows disk per se-ALL the
> installed software is on a cd,and if one wants to do a wipe and new
> install,there really is'nt any option,but to insert the cd and let it
> load (I have'nt done this yet.. )
>
> So,in this situation,would'nt the only procedure be to install this oem
> disk,and THEN start with individual drivers/programs?
>
> Not a whiz kid,
> Carl
>
> "David J. Slavik" wrote:
> >
> > Monte: Here are a couple of things I experienced when reformatting a
hard
> > drive on one of my computers.
> >
> > I have a 3Com NIC and this card requires a preinstallation of part of
the
> > software, before the card is installed in the motherboard. After the
card
> > is placed in the motherboard, then you finish the rest of the software
> > installation. If I had not built this computer myself, I would have had
a
> > hard time trying to figure out why I was having trouble with trying to
> > install the software after the reformatting process.
> >
> > The other problem, which caused me about 5 hours of grief, was that the
> > software for my sound card had to be installed before I installed the
Norton
> > Antivirus software. I was unable to find anything that told me this was
> > necessary. One morning in the shower, while thinking about this
problem, it
> > came to me that maybe the order that I was installing some of the
software
> > was the problem. I thought back to the steps taken when building the
> > computer and realized that the sound card software was installed prior
to
> > the Norton software. So I tried that and it worked.
> >
> > If prebuilt machines are being used, some of this type of information is
> > hard to come by. Also, some of the prebuilt manufacturers don't provide
> > their customers with all the documentation that they need.
> >
> > These are just two things that I have experienced, wish you well in your
> > endeavor.
> >
> > David
>
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