First post, by coppercitymt
Is it just me or are 2000 and newer PC's just crap! It seems like they not built as good as older PC's and are broke in some way or another. Every system made 1999 and older seems to be well built last forever and just plain works no matter what you throw at it.
My two dells one is a Dimension 4100 (Early 2001) P III 933 the other a XPS D266 PII (1997). The newer one has a problem that I can't make go away even down to swapping motherboards out, any time you start Direct-x related things it just freeze's, the windows 3D screen savers just freeze it will randomly lock up and get stuck on a sound in Half-life, and it's just plain slow. Same thing on both 98 and ME. Up to date drivers and DX 8.0. Won't even let me start Dxdia program (in program files).
On the other hand the PII 266 plays everything fine and dandy.
So out in the shed the other dell will sit, if it don't want to play nice. I sometimes wonder why I even mess with these systems. Just scrap them all ;-(