This PC is a rule unto itself. With the latest drivers for everything, it works even less well than with the drivers which came with it.
Adding some new hardware like the Win-TV-PCI card actually causes it to lock up at the Found New Hardware Wizard and corrupt other drivers (they get yellow warning symbols in device manager). All this with XP-specific drivers! Tried reinstalling several times from scrath (every 2 days on average) and getting nowhere fast. I can email and that's about all I can do at the moment without self-destruct. I even borrowed another copy of XP Pro off someone at work to try in case there was a fault on the CD I got, results always the same. The manufacturer of the PC says it's designed for Win XP but "may work with Win 98SE" - in fact it works with Win 98SE but putting XP on it seems to be a disaster. Everything claims to work, nothing works except email and even that ignores the line width setting to annoy people on this list! Am just about going insane here. Windows XP is so well behaved at work, I just can't understand why I get all this hassle with everything that isn't made by Micro$oft. Dilwyn Jones ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 7:37 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] The hardware conflict... > In message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes > >Good point. During my recent XPriences I had to set my PC to boot up > >from CD, as the CD would not install from DOS. > Did you solve the CD problem ? It only occurred to me today that it was > probably a lack of higher driver for the IDE bus that was making the CD > not work. It can handle a HDD but not a CD if it is not loaded > correctly. These are motherboard chipset specific. > -- > Roy Wood > Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB > Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030 fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 > web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
