- Jan 18, 2001
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Maetryx here, 
The "rig"
Packard Bell, Cyrix CII-300, 3.2 GB HDD, SIS chipset, SIS video w/2 MB RAM stolen from the 32 MB RAM leaving 30MB, CD-ROM, floppy, keyboard, optical wheel mouse. Adding a NIC.
The story
My neighbor two-doors-down was having trouble getting Windows 98 to recognize his 3COM Etherlink III PCI 905C-TX. So I ran it through the Control Panel --> Add/Remove Hardware --> Have Disk --> Reboot etc. etc. etc. Nothing. His system is slow 'n loud. He uses a tie-dye pattern for his background. His computer is choked with 30 icons scattered across the 14-inch desktop. His mouse cursor is shaped like a mouse. At least 10 programs start on bootup, at least two of which crash or give a warning of some kind. The video screen keeps shrinking and expanding spasmodically.
I endured this horrific setup for about 30 minutes when I decided to try and move the NIC to another slot. When I opened the case I discovered that the card was not seated properly in it's slot. JUST BARELY IN. Just enough to light up the blinking green lights on it so you would think it was working. So I shoved it in and Windows found it right away.
Then the guy starts asking me if I build and sell systems, but by then I was cringing. I don't want to be this guy's personal computer service representative when I live 30 feet from him. Noooooooooo. I tell him I don't do things like that. Then I ran.
The "rig"
Packard Bell, Cyrix CII-300, 3.2 GB HDD, SIS chipset, SIS video w/2 MB RAM stolen from the 32 MB RAM leaving 30MB, CD-ROM, floppy, keyboard, optical wheel mouse. Adding a NIC.
The story
My neighbor two-doors-down was having trouble getting Windows 98 to recognize his 3COM Etherlink III PCI 905C-TX. So I ran it through the Control Panel --> Add/Remove Hardware --> Have Disk --> Reboot etc. etc. etc. Nothing. His system is slow 'n loud. He uses a tie-dye pattern for his background. His computer is choked with 30 icons scattered across the 14-inch desktop. His mouse cursor is shaped like a mouse. At least 10 programs start on bootup, at least two of which crash or give a warning of some kind. The video screen keeps shrinking and expanding spasmodically.
I endured this horrific setup for about 30 minutes when I decided to try and move the NIC to another slot. When I opened the case I discovered that the card was not seated properly in it's slot. JUST BARELY IN. Just enough to light up the blinking green lights on it so you would think it was working. So I shoved it in and Windows found it right away.
Then the guy starts asking me if I build and sell systems, but by then I was cringing. I don't want to be this guy's personal computer service representative when I live 30 feet from him. Noooooooooo. I tell him I don't do things like that. Then I ran.
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