Stilgar
8th July 2001, 03:03
POS Compaq's #@*%$#*&@!^(&
One of the little darlings I just got to work on was a old Compaq which had been updated from win95 to win98. (Stoopid idea) It was brought to me after the update. No system printout nothing. (And oh very important we don't lose anything on it. We have all our banking and other stuff on here we can't lose.) Remove default hardware 98 had installed try to install the right drivers. Win98 does not like them. (Even the updates from the Compaq site, supposedly for win 98.) Remove and re-install several times. Boy this sounds just like the last gripe I had on another system. Compaq spared no expense with one ram slot. Got a whole 32 megs of ram. (Did I say they installed win98, Why yes I did. And win98 just loves having that little ram. And they don't want anything taken out of the startup. ) Hi, do you by any chance have any documentation on what type video card does this have? "Why no. BTW what is a video driver?" Okay open up to look what type vid chip it has. And then the case @#!%$&*%$# little case. Have to remove the back plate and pull it out just to get to it. Finally down to the adapter chip. Ah, now a hunt for the driver. Compaq does not list a video driver for it. Got the monitor driver from their site. More hunting, finally success. Installed video driver. What!! now it does not like the monitor driver. remove and re-install. Anyways finally works.
One of the little darlings I just got to work on was a old Compaq which had been updated from win95 to win98. (Stoopid idea) It was brought to me after the update. No system printout nothing. (And oh very important we don't lose anything on it. We have all our banking and other stuff on here we can't lose.) Remove default hardware 98 had installed try to install the right drivers. Win98 does not like them. (Even the updates from the Compaq site, supposedly for win 98.) Remove and re-install several times. Boy this sounds just like the last gripe I had on another system. Compaq spared no expense with one ram slot. Got a whole 32 megs of ram. (Did I say they installed win98, Why yes I did. And win98 just loves having that little ram. And they don't want anything taken out of the startup. ) Hi, do you by any chance have any documentation on what type video card does this have? "Why no. BTW what is a video driver?" Okay open up to look what type vid chip it has. And then the case @#!%$&*%$# little case. Have to remove the back plate and pull it out just to get to it. Finally down to the adapter chip. Ah, now a hunt for the driver. Compaq does not list a video driver for it. Got the monitor driver from their site. More hunting, finally success. Installed video driver. What!! now it does not like the monitor driver. remove and re-install. Anyways finally works.