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Dear Jim & Group,
I didn't bore you with all my problems. My week of computer wars began when I
attempted to install Win XP in my Dell P3/500. I FDISK'd and FORMAT'd the Dell
then ran the XP install process. The first thing that arose was that although
I had purchased a Full Program version of XP, its instructions provided only
for installing XP on a machine already loaded with Win98. That was when I
began calling MS Support, who acknowledged that the XP instructions did not
include how to load XP from scratch --- whose instructions they gave me by
phone. The next thing that arose was that upon following the "load XP from
scratch" instructions, at the end of the installation, I got the error message
"Installation shut down because to continue might damage your harddrive ---
check for viruses on your harddrive and harddrive controller, remove them, and
re-install XP." I re-installed Win98 and Norton Anti-Virus, which showed no
viruses throughout. I again FDISK'd and FORMAT'd then re-installed XP: same
error message. I called MS again. They waffled. I called a couple of local
computer stores, who told me that XP was especially difficult to install from
scratch (as opposed to on top of Win98), and that the usual result, especially
with an "older" computer such as my Dell P3/500 was error messages alleging
virus problems, when the real problem was XP incompatibility. Apparently, the
way to reduce this "incompatibility" is to install XP over Win98 and its
DOS-based programs. At this point, I bailed out and went back to using Win98
(alone) and then immediately ran into my dongle problem.
I have heard many positive comments about XP. I trust others have had better
success with its installation than I. Perhaps, especially with non-new
computers, it is best to install it on top of Win98.
Sincerely,
Richard
Jim Johnson wrote:
> Hello TaoOfDow,
>
> I feel your pain. Just a note---several weeks ago I finally bit the
> bullet and went about converting my Dell from W98 to Win2k. Worked
> fine. and W2k is just sweet. Seems I could go weeks without
> rebooting. reintstalling all one's apps is a bit tedious but I spread
> it out over a few weeks. but by and large it was easy. thanks
> significantly to the great info posted on this list.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Jim Johnson mailto:jejohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Monday, April 08, 2002, 9:26:57 PM, you wrote:
>
> T> Dear Group,
>
> T> Last week was in many ways my week in hell --- with software & hardware
> T> problems.
>
> T> The week before, I had bought a Dell P3/500 over eBay. I FDISK'd and
> T> FORMAT'd it, then installed Win98 and TS4, but I just could not get it
> T> to recognize that peskie TS dongle. I asked for suggestions here and
> T> received many. Despite my efforts, attempting virtually all your
> T> suggestions (save for installing an auxiliary printer port), I just
> T> could not get the Dell to recognize that damned apparatus !!!
>
> T> I then regrouped, deciding to use the Dell for my general purpose
> T> computer instead --- and use a clone P3/500 that I have been using as my
> T> general purpose computer for my TS computer. I FDISK'd and FORMAT'd it,
> T> then installed Win98 and TS4. And, of course, the clone recognized the
> T> dongle on the first try. Why the clone did and the Dell didn't remains
> T> to be determined --- by someone else.
>
> T> I also had problems in getting a combination of historical and realtime
> T> data to plot coherently. Apparently what happened there was that when I
> T> downloaded the historical data, the computer on which I did that was set
> T> for a date that was the date of the following day. As a consequence of
> T> that and the date that daylight savings took effect, the historical data
> T> got date-stamped as if daylight savings had already taken effect ---
> T> messing up the charting process.
>
> T> I published my woes on this newsgroup, as regards both my dongle
> T> recognition and my data sharing problems, and received many replies and
> T> suggestions. I just want to take the time to acknowledge the many notes
> T> I received and express my gratitude to you all for taking your time to
> T> help me with your many and generous ideas. Thank you.
>
> T> Things are back to normal here, more or less, and I am indeed glad to
> T> turn my efforts from the intricacies of computers to that of trading and
> T> the markets. Thank you again for all your help.
>
> T> Sincerely,
>
> T> Richard
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