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redpanic 
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Posted on: May 06 2002,05:51 |
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Any ideas why win2k would say I have an incompatible hardware config when I try to upgrade from win98se?
I've got a Frankenstein box....pieced together over a year ago. Stores wanted too much $$$.
MB: Asus p5-a (socket 7)
Mem: 196Mb
HD: ~8 gig left (new drive)
Proc: AMD k6 450Mhz
No other funky attachments...soundblaster...nvidea ...thats it.
I allowed it to attempt the change to NTFS...it does the reporting and lists the items that may not work...
The next click tells me my configuration is incompatible.
Ideas?
-RP
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Posted on: May 06 2002,08:26 |
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I had Win2k for about 10 hours last week; I lost all sorts of drivers and utilities!
It was stable, though; why not.
Nothing worked, so no problemo.
Let's wait a tad for the real boys to weigh in.
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liquid metal
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Posted on: May 06 2002,14:56 |
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try one of these two
- take everything out, try turning on the machine. then turn it off and put everything back in.
- format before installing.
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Jynx
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Posted on: May 06 2002,20:42 |
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DO NOT do an upgrade -- liquid metal said it when he told you to reformat first. There's just too much baggage left over from an upgrade.
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redpanic
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Posted on: May 09 2002,20:35 |
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I think I'll abandon the Win2k OS for the time being. Don't wanna destroy everything w/ a reformat...I'll wait until graduation to jump on that grenade.
Besides...Win98se is working fine.
Thanks
-RP
Edited by redpanic on Jan. 01 1970,01:00
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liquid metal
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Posted on: May 10 2002,00:20 |
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that's why you make backups.
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redpanic
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Posted on: May 10 2002,03:33 |
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| Quote (liquid metal @ 09 May 2002,18:20) | | that's why you make backups. |
30 gigs of backup isn't exactly appealing... however I suspect I'll have more time in the coming weeks to make the conversion.
-RP
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BlackFlag
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Posted on: May 10 2002,09:18 |
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30 gigs of backup would be time consuming, and depending on the backup method, expensive(?).
30 gigs of new HD should cost you about 40-60 bucks.
burn large files (like videos) to cd/cdrw. move everything else to a second drive. format first drive. install. =)
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redpanic
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Posted on: May 10 2002,20:15 |
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i like that idea better.
thanks
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Wolfguard
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Posted on: May 14 2002,13:41 |
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That and if your going to start from square one with your system try running xp.
Its like 2000 with a lot of the bugs removed.
Just make sure you have drivers for everything first.
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