Re: [Cooker] RC1 problems on Athlon/Via chipset box
LOL@PBCAC ! yeah, me too... :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the thought, Michael. Im a newbie, so I didnt get what "PBCAC" Problem Between Chair and Computer (that's me!) means, sorry. Last I checked my BIOS was up to date, (Award v.2.6.x) Look at the date- mine is march1,2001 and i expect a new one any day. 'll check again. Though I dont want to risk messing up the NT4 partition, which is where I still work. BTW: version 7.2 used to work fine on this box with a few minor annoyance I just discovered that I can't burn cd's using any of the cdburning s/w in RC1 so all of a sudden I feel more dismayed than before... :-( -- pax -m- __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
Re: [Cooker] RC1 problems on Athlon/Via chipset box
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL@PBCAC ! yeah, me too... :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the thought, Michael. Im a newbie, so I didnt get what "PBCAC" Problem Between Chair and Computer (that's me!) means, sorry. Last I checked my BIOS was up to date, (Award v.2.6.x) Look at the date- mine is march1,2001 and i expect a new one any day. 'll check again. Though I dont want to risk messing up the NT4 partition, which is where I still work. BTW: version 7.2 used to work fine on this box with a few minor annoyance I just discovered that I can't burn cd's using any of the cdburning s/w in RC1 so all of a sudden I feel more dismayed than before... :-( -- pax -m- __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Further investigation lead to an RMA procurement for my Panasonic/Mitsumi burner that won't even read! -- pax -m-
Re: [Cooker] RC1 problems on Athlon/Via chipset box
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the thought, Michael. Im a newbie, so I didnt get what "PBCAC" Problem Between Chair and Computer (that's me!) means, sorry. Last I checked my BIOS was up to date, (Award v.2.6.x) Look at the date- mine is march1,2001 and i expect a new one any day. 'll check again. Though I dont want to risk messing up the NT4 partition, which is where I still work. BTW: version 7.2 used to work fine on this box with a few minor annoyance I just discovered that I can't burn cd's using any of the cdburning s/w in RC1 so all of a sudden I feel more dismayed than before... :-( -- pax -m-
Re: [Cooker] RC1 problems on Athlon/Via chipset box
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have twice installed RC1 on this Athlon/Via chipset/DMA100 box, and I get an unusable OS. Everything crashes all the time netscape, konqueror, mozilla, nautilus, gnome/kde (bounces out to login screen !), Internet sharing wizard freezes --- list is long. I have not been able to use the system for more than 5-10 minutes at a time. Now it refuses to boot because of errors in the file system. there is no mouse to click the "Yes" button for repairs I'll say this: the 686-optimized code makes things blazing fast ! scarily fast, much faster than 7.2 version, had to get used to it at first --- but the system is very jittery, buggy, crash-prone, unusable Im rooting for Mandrake, but its not ready for desktop 'prime time' (at least not on this hardware) this version should have been called 7.3 I wish I could give y'all more useful feedback but Im not a techie __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Goodness knows I have a terminal case of PBCAC but since I am running RC1 on an athlon/a7v133 with some but not MAjor problems, might I suggest upgrading your bios and (gulp) trying again? -- pax -m-
Re: [Cooker] RC1 problems on Athlon/Via chipset box
Thanks for the thought, Michael. Im a newbie, so I didnt get what "PBCAC" means, sorry. Last I checked my BIOS was up to date, (Award v.2.6.x) I'll check again. Though I dont want to risk messing up the NT4 partition, which is where I still work. BTW: version 7.2 used to work fine on this box with a few minor annoyances [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have twice installed RC1 on this Athlon/Via chipset/DMA100 box, and I get an unusable OS. Everything crashes all the time netscape, konqueror, mozilla, nautilus, gnome/kde (bounces out to login screen !), Internet sharing wizard freezes --- list is long. I have not been able to use the system for more than 5-10 minutes at a time. Now it refuses to boot because of errors in the file system. there is no mouse to click the "Yes" button for repairs I'll say this: the 686-optimized code makes things blazing fast ! scarily fast, much faster than 7.2 version, had to get used to it at first --- but the system is very jittery, buggy, crash-prone, unusable Im rooting for Mandrake, but its not ready for desktop 'prime time' (at least not on this hardware) this version should have been called 7.3 I wish I could give y'all more useful feedback but Im not a techie __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Goodness knows I have a terminal case of PBCAC but since I am running RC1 on an athlon/a7v133 with some but not MAjor problems, might I suggest upgrading your bios and (gulp) trying again? -- pax -m- __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
