Q: And I think I want, no major problems so far. It seems to run smoother. I had some probs with win2k, and my computer seemed to run very slow and like crap. Im going to miss, but Im a gamer at heart and I am glad to be back on 98 for the moment. I refer not only strengthened my 3dmark2k1 score 500 points. The most important thing I do miss the control-alt-delete menu, man, that rocked.
Also, Office XP works with win98 yet?
Re:alien, office XP works fine on Win 98.
Re:I reformat like once every six months, I planned on formatting anyways, if it happened to work itself out it would just be a bonus.
Anyways plextor replied to me and told me to send in an RMA request. Now who the hell wants to figure out how to fill this (http://www.plextor.com/english/support/support_rmareq.html) sucker out.
Re:"It might have something to do with the fact that my plextor 16/10 also died on me last week and it does not read any cds and gives me an I/O error when I try to access it (on win98 it says "the device is not ready"). I'm still trying to figure this one out."
ROFL, no offense man, but you sound like some IT people I've run into: "If I can't fix a problem, I reformat… even if the problem still isn't fixed". If your CDRW wasn't working properly and Win2K was continually trying to detect it, this would cause a massive slow down. I had this problem when I flashed my CDrom with the wrong version of drivers (they all look alike!). Grats on your 500 points in 3dmark…
Re:I posted my rig up above. My rig is very up-to-date. I'll probably go back to win2k or maybe even XP as soon as I get my plextor drive all worked out, it's pissing me off.
Re:Wow… my W2K startup times aren't noticibly any slower than my old W98 bootups… mind you, I keep pretty close tabs on which apps are allowed to add crap to my startup which helps a lot.
I "lost the faith" a month or so ago with W2K and put back W98… ick… I used to think that my W98 install was pretty stable, but I guess I was just used to it. When I moved back from W2K… the system instability was *very* noticible… the W98 install lasted half a day, then back to W2K.
I have to add my vote to those others that say that if your hardware is reasonably current (ie. <3 yrs old) and your drivers are right smack up to date, you shouldn't have problems running current games (there's the pick right there I guess) in W2K.
Re:i guarantee u if you spend a couple of hours tweaking 2k, you will get better 3dmark scroes.
dont know about your incompatabilites tho.
just ee if office XP installs, you will know your answer.
booty
Re:You'll be back… Muahahahahahaha
Re:Also I am not going to be missing those win2k boot times any time soon.
And does anybody know if office XP works on win98? And what kind of boot times does winXP have?
Re:Here is my rig. (http://www.{$MySite}/mysystemrig.html?rigid=5746)
Originally when I first installed win2k it was running great for about 6 months. After last week when I installed max payne, suddenly it just started to slowly die on me. Suddenly I got tons of random lockups, everything was running much slower. I defragged and even reinstalled and stuff but nothing changed.
It might have something to do with the fact that my plextor 16/10 also died on me last week and it does not read any cds and gives me an I/O error when I try to access it (on win98 it says "the device is not ready"). I'm still trying to figure this one out.
On 3dmark2k1 it was actually a bigger then 500 change. I went from 3800 to 4500.
Re:well, you will regret it in about 15 hours when you have to restart.
booty
Re:hey… the only reason why I initially went to W2k was my dual NIC, now I am a happy bunny cause all my stuff has got pretty good drivers now, which wasn't the case before. I am certainly not going back to 98. And 3DMark scores can kiss my …!
Just curious guy: what graphics card do you have?? 500points difference in 3DMark (even though I disregard that software as much as possible) i s a quite a difference. Where you a victim of crappy ATI drivers??
Re:you do know that you can install win98 on an original pentium and it will be fast, for only so long though. after a while win98 has a way of degrading itself over time. the only thing i suggest to keep the install as fresh as possible is to scandisk and defrag often.
Re:Hmm.. if it was running so slow, how much RAM do you've got in your system? 128 MB is the minimum, 256 is recommended and every MB extra is better. Also, did you install the latest drivers?
Re:i was jsut debating weather to take the same path you just took.. just curious.. what rig you have set up? i am running a amd 1 ghx, 256 ram, geforce mx, and abit mobo. i am a man of speed, so i am looking for it any which way i can..
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