NyLan wrote on 2022-02-24, 17:48:Finished the setup of my A20M : […]
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Finished the setup of my A20M :
New Battery, old was KO
Full clean-up.
Put some old-new P3 and Window stickers
Replaced Cd player by a new CDRW ( also have a DVD in its pouch )
Replaced the HDD with a 256GB SSD
Setup Windows98SE and functional Ms-Dos 7.1
Installed Acronis True Image 8 to get a recovery partition in case of issue.
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I've just spent the last three days with a very touchy Win98se installation, first it crashed every time I tried installing new hardware drivers so I did a nuke and pave which fixed the issue, then it decided to not get along with the PCI sound card it had previously been fine with so I swapped the card for an identical one (same settings) and all was well again then it decided to crash at random times quake 3 arena was running with a known good GPU and clean drivers. (tested both cards in another PC and they work fine, no issues or driver problems)
That third time was my final straw with that 98 install and it and the HDD it resided on was removed from the PC and sent to my sin bin.
New HDD and a ME install and its now working perfectly, now I know what you may be thinking .. it was the HDD causing the issues... nope that HDD was repurposed as a XP boot drive and its running perfectly.
I still hate Win98 just as much now as I did back in the day, its a picky whiny little child of an OS that randomly throws tantrums and wont take no for an answer.