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GeneralOld Hardware and Windows 98 SE Pin
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Roger Wright7-May-03 20:49
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I don't know what 'ancient' means to Michael, but I know that there's some really old hardware out there still working. I spent last weekend repairing a network for a local business, and two of their machines are Pentium 100s! Somehow they managed to get Win98SE to run on them, using NetBEUI as a transport protocol. Then they built a 'server' from scratch (a pet project of a manager who knows just enough to be a problem for everyone) with Windows 2000 Pro on it, but no one could figure out how to use Win2KP. So they reformatted and installed WinMe on it!!! I reconfigured everything to use TCP/IP, cleaned up the tiny disk drives, and enabled ICS on their one machine with a modem that still works (a winmodem, no less), rebuilt one machine competely because the thing became psychotic at odd moments, and reconfigured their proprietary sales programs to work properly. I don't know what I'll do next time they call - it's like trying to refloat the Titanic each time I visit!

My suggestion to Michael is a long shot, but worth a try. I'm sure he's already checked the cables and jumpers - there's not much else that can be wrong physically other than a bad controller on the MB, and there's nothing he can do about that short of replacing it. A machine that old is hardly worth the cost.

"Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
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