At 07:45 PM 03/11/2001 -0500, John Pendley wrote:
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>Did you install it over the old OS or reformat the hard drive and install it
>clean?
Did a clean install. It just asks you to insert your previous OS's CD to
validate that you can use the upgrade.
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>Did you have to back up all data files before installing?
Yeah, but on my system, that's easy -- I use removable hard drives, and there's
always two in the bays, so I just copied all the data over to drive two,
re-formatted the Win98SE on drive one, and installed XP.
>Another important issue for me is whether Word for Windows 2000 and Excel 2000
>will work on XP. I already know that Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.0 will not work;
>it has to be 5.1.
Yes, they work fine. (At least, mine do.)
>>All this for the price of $149.00 CDN for the upgrade. Mind you, the target
>>PC already came tricked out with lots of memory (>256 MByte RAM). If you
>>don't have at least 256 MByte RAM, the new O/S may puke a bit. But these
>>days, RAM's damn near free, and the store I got the upgrade O/S from was
>>actually *giving away* 128 Megs of RAM with every sale.
>
>I've got a 550 mh PC w/128 mb of RAM. I know I'll have to buy more. I've
>never installed RAM and don't even know what kind I must have. Guess I'll buy
>it from Gateway (my PC manufacturer) and let them walk me through it. While
>I'm at it, I might as well pack it to the max.
RAM's the cheapest upgrade you can get that dramatically improves the
performance of a computer, regardless of whether it's Intel or Motorola core.
Typical RAM is at least 1,000 times faster than the fastest EIDE or SCSI hard
drive, and when you're doing a few million paging operations, that counts.
BTW, anyone can install RAM. My brother (who may be the most non-technical
person in existence) actually did it without any problems. If he can do it,
anyone can. Going through Gateway's probably a good idea, although you could
probably just take your motherboard's manual into any competent shop and they'd
find the type of RAM you require specified in the manual.
>>Seems to me that buying a whole new computer is overkill.
>
>Yes, but I do need something that will install a SCSI or FireWire card and
>something that doesn't crash as often.
Should do. It recognized my SCSI card as well as my second parallel port card
and the EIDE Ultra100 expansion card without incident.
Garth
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