Perhaps the "afinity" some current and former Windows users have for
reinstalling is more legitimate than you seem to think. My example:
A few months ago I built a brand new PC. All band-name, brand new
components and I proceeded to do a clean install of Win98 (first edition
- build 1998). Well, Win98 ran for 2 weeks. Then one morning it gave
me an invalid page fault in explorer.exe while booting up. After
running scandisk and finding no errors, I had to reinstall because I
repeatedly got the page fault even when attempting to boot into safe
mode. So, I attempted to reinstall, and the setup process locked my
system up (something that didn't happen the first time). That was it --
I'm done with Windows and have installed Linux Mandrake 6.0 and have run
it flawlessly for 2 and a half months on the same hardware.
(1) It wasn't anything I did wrong -- one day the system ran fine and I
shut it down without problems; the next time I booted it, it choked.
(2) No application to be a problem. I didn't install anything new, and
had nothing running at startup but the Windows components.
(3) Hardware problem? Everything was less than 2 weeks old. (And runs
Linux flawlessly)
(4) A problem with the OS? I think so!
Goodday,
Jeremy Kersenbrock
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tom Brinkman wrote:
>
> I was gonna stay out of this, but Oh Well. There's a coupl'a
> things I just don't understand what the big deal's about. One, is
> LU's aversion to re-booting. The other is Window's users afinity
> for re-installs.
>
> I was a W95 beta tester, but they wouldn't accept me for W98.
> So I downloaded various builds thru 1721 (RC1), mostly from Russian
> ftp sites. Now before y'all chastize me for WaReZ, when W98 was
> released, I bought a legitimate copy, build 1998. I just managed
> to have W98 for 8 months before they released it ;-)
>
> My point in all this ? My oldest HDD is my current C:\
> drive. It's had several beta builds of W98 on it and now the
> retail version, all installed over the preceding build. That HDD's
> been in two different systems since W98 was first installed about
> 1/98. I'm only waiting on a new motherboard to arrive, and then
> it'll be in the 3rd new system. I don't plan to re-install either
> W98 or Linux.... and I'll bet'cha I don't have any big problems
> either. Yeah, I know, 'famous last words' :)
>
> < pontificate on ;>
> I approach computer problems in this order, 1) I'm doin
> somethin wrong 2) the application is the problem 3) it's
> a hardware problem 4) it's an operating system problem. This
> order seems to serve me the best. It appears to me that those
> that have the most computer problems, attack them in _exactly_
> the reverse order.
> --
> .. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
>
