Once upon a time there was a boy a quarter of a century old with a K7-600, Voodoo3 and SIII video cards, an SBlive, the microsoft DSS80 USB speakers, an external modem, realtek ethernet, Sony DDU220E DVD, and USB. He had other things on the parallel port which we shall skip over in this story.
Rigoletto was ever so disappointed that his SIII card wouldn't work and no matter how hard he tried he couldn't get Windows 95 to use it. How he wanted to use two monitors at the same time! Neither would his CD player play audibly for him. He wanted digital sound from his DSS80 speakers but Windows 95 wouldn't let him. Rigoletto began to resent windows 95.
So one day being a poor student he went along to the store cap in hand:
"Please sir can I have a cheap Windows ME sir?"
The kindly security guard followed him around and helped him buy a box that Mr. William H Gates II sold especially cheaply for students. Wasn't that nice of Uncle Bill!
Being a cautious boy who got bitten before, Rigoletto decided to copy his windows95 to another partition and back up the MBR in case his upgrade went wrong. The upgrade went smooth as white chocolate and his modem, DSS80 and CD player were playing perfectly. Yet, still no luck with his SIII.
Rigoletto was pleased with something called system restore which always allowed him an escape after his tinkerings with new programs and parts for his computer. But still he fiddled with his disk partitions and managed to spoil his Windows. So he decided on a clean install, and to his surprise he found many more options being installed and about 600Mb of files in his new installation. All his equipment was recognised by Windows, which he thought jolly good.
But now his CD player was stuttering and his SIII card still wouldn't work. He decided he was a lucky fellow to have a computer working at all and tried to forget about this for two days but he still had the urge to tinker. He pulled out his internal modem which he didn't need any more and put a realtek ethernet card in its place. But, oh! Windows would crash on loading. Try as he might, he couldn't make a boot menu appear so he had to cheat and reset his computer half way through loading, so he was offered safe mode. He tried putting the realtek sharing with the coms port two which really didn't have anything to do. He rebooted and Windows had sorted out another IRQ for him which he didn't specify, but at least the realtek was in the right place.
But what to do about the Diamond card? He flashed the BIOS but still it showed the same error: the memory addresses of the Diamond were in use by another program or device. Which one could that be? He looked carefully at the memory list but could see nothing else on top of his card. So not knowing what else to do as he wasn't allowed to change the settings manually, he tried deinstalling the Voodoo3 and booting with the Diamond. And this time, success! No longer did the Diamond card crash when using more than 16 colours. Rigoletto now found to his surprise that the card was using completely different resources. But would his Voodoo now work if he reinstalled it? Yes!
Rigoletto still doesn't know why no matter how he tries he can't get CDs to play nice and clean, but he thought hard and decided:
"Kiss my ass. Later, gator"
Win ME is very good and we like the dinky features and the more substantial system restore. We think it's the best windows ever and sucks to linux, nah.
Rigoletto was ever so disappointed that his SIII card wouldn't work and no matter how hard he tried he couldn't get Windows 95 to use it. How he wanted to use two monitors at the same time! Neither would his CD player play audibly for him. He wanted digital sound from his DSS80 speakers but Windows 95 wouldn't let him. Rigoletto began to resent windows 95.
So one day being a poor student he went along to the store cap in hand:
"Please sir can I have a cheap Windows ME sir?"
The kindly security guard followed him around and helped him buy a box that Mr. William H Gates II sold especially cheaply for students. Wasn't that nice of Uncle Bill!
Being a cautious boy who got bitten before, Rigoletto decided to copy his windows95 to another partition and back up the MBR in case his upgrade went wrong. The upgrade went smooth as white chocolate and his modem, DSS80 and CD player were playing perfectly. Yet, still no luck with his SIII.
Rigoletto was pleased with something called system restore which always allowed him an escape after his tinkerings with new programs and parts for his computer. But still he fiddled with his disk partitions and managed to spoil his Windows. So he decided on a clean install, and to his surprise he found many more options being installed and about 600Mb of files in his new installation. All his equipment was recognised by Windows, which he thought jolly good.
But now his CD player was stuttering and his SIII card still wouldn't work. He decided he was a lucky fellow to have a computer working at all and tried to forget about this for two days but he still had the urge to tinker. He pulled out his internal modem which he didn't need any more and put a realtek ethernet card in its place. But, oh! Windows would crash on loading. Try as he might, he couldn't make a boot menu appear so he had to cheat and reset his computer half way through loading, so he was offered safe mode. He tried putting the realtek sharing with the coms port two which really didn't have anything to do. He rebooted and Windows had sorted out another IRQ for him which he didn't specify, but at least the realtek was in the right place.
But what to do about the Diamond card? He flashed the BIOS but still it showed the same error: the memory addresses of the Diamond were in use by another program or device. Which one could that be? He looked carefully at the memory list but could see nothing else on top of his card. So not knowing what else to do as he wasn't allowed to change the settings manually, he tried deinstalling the Voodoo3 and booting with the Diamond. And this time, success! No longer did the Diamond card crash when using more than 16 colours. Rigoletto now found to his surprise that the card was using completely different resources. But would his Voodoo now work if he reinstalled it? Yes!
Rigoletto still doesn't know why no matter how he tries he can't get CDs to play nice and clean, but he thought hard and decided:
"Kiss my ass. Later, gator"
Win ME is very good and we like the dinky features and the more substantial system restore. We think it's the best windows ever and sucks to linux, nah.
