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[gothams3rdrobin]

So I didn't get to sort out my computer in the end...

I spent ages wiping the hard-drive and installing Curtains 98 SE in place of plain ol' Curtains 98, and then tried to install the drivers for my wireless network doobrie-whatsist. But what ever I did, it's not recognising the usb device...

This is so getting on my nerves...*sigh*

It's an improvement though - it wouldn't even let me install the drivers before!

I'd put XP on the system, but that's an extra £90 I can't spare, and it's an old PC - Pentium II with a 4gig hard-drive and just 64 meg of ram. It did have 192mg - but that's a whole 'nother rant that I don't want to get into...

And 'sides, I don't think my scanner is XP compatible - the graphics software that came bundled with it certainly isn't.

Comments

[tanathir.livejournal.com]

Dude, that sounds a lot like my computer. I had to reinstall Windows 98, and I have a measely Pentium II as well as 64 MB of RAM. I feel your pain, m'dear.

[gothams3rdrobin.livejournal.com]

Thanks hon...

I love my desktop - I've spent a lot of money upgrading the sound and graphics cards, installing a TV card...but it's starting to sound poorly. It makes a lot more noise than it used to...

I can see me needing to buy a new one next year. The way it's sounding, it's not even gonna be suitable for the little 'un for his school work.

[tanathir.livejournal.com]

My desktop is referred to as the dinosaur.

[richardjgrayson.livejournal.com]

Try poking around here - http://www.annoyances.org - it may be a pretty common Windows 'feature'. I know it -can- work, because both my computers run the exact same OS. May take a bit of teething to get it to work.

[richardjgrayson.livejournal.com]

Actually, postscript to that... you need at minimum 128MB of RAM for XP - and I could get a copy if you needed it.

[gothams3rdrobin.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link, mate!

I do want to find that missing 128mg of ram...if it actually is in one of my boxes, like you-know-who claims. Personally I think it's still in his PC - which is technically mine, since I'm paying for it. But like I said, whole 'nother rant...

I was under the impression XP was designed to only be useable on one specific PC? Or do you have a generic version? I have a copy for my laptop, but I think that is model-specific.

[richardjgrayson.livejournal.com]

(coughs) Well, yeah... but there are, uh... ways around that. ;)

[mike-mccall.livejournal.com]

Just a quick line to make sure you realize you referred to the OS as "Curtains" in your post.

Call it what you'd like, that's just not something I'd be doing accidentally. Ficton-bleed in the head is bad.

[gothams3rdrobin.livejournal.com]

*grins* Yes, I know. Twas deliberate.

The people on my flist here are the only people I know who would understand the joke *smiles*

Nice to know someone's looking out for my sanity - what's left of it!