I broke down and used Win98… < sigh > it clearly wasn’t going to work. I had to circumvent the upgrade though, because Win95 couldn’t work with the hard drive drivers Oh well, I will survive. As soon as I get Win 2000 I will let you know. It’s not that I don’t have Win95 licensing it’s just that you can by pass installing Win95 before installing Win98.
What a pain in the butt.
I will be connecting the two puters though, and my 95 machine will remain as the trusty one it has always been.
This machine is much better for what I need it to do, hardware wise, I just wish I felt comfortable with using Win 98 considering my experience with it at work!
I guess it’s too late now but you should have tried getting the latest motherboard flash. Sometimes the motherboard and OS don’t want to cooperate on assigning IRQ’s.
techchick68, I actually keep a complete backup on another HD that has W95 on it. Plus another back up on yet another HD with W98. I find it cheaper & way way faster to backup to HDs
Thanks Handy, good idea, I will be connecting the two here pretty soon, got the hub (free) and all I need is to install a NIC in my old system and get patch cables…
I have software at work that will cost about $15,000 to replace. That isn’t going to happen.
Setting up the computer with Windows 95 takes half a day to get the program working, and then there are printing problems.
I loaded in Windows 98 after the hard drive died and the software worked right away. It’s the only computer on the network not running NT. The program is completely incompatable with NT.
If you’re gonna pay someone else to do something, let them do it!!! I mean, sure I could build my own system and install my own OS, but I don’t want to take the time…and it seems like you did the same thing Tech, but then you turned around and re-formated the HD to re-install 95…if you were having a problem, you should have just taken it back and made them fix it. As a tech, you should know that sometimes you have to do some pretty interesting configureations to make everything work…especially in 95…so you should have know better than to blow it off without making sure you had all the settigs, and drivers that were used…I’m gald you got it working again.
P.S. I use 98 at home, and haven’t had a problem…but then again, I don’t do much on it…
Since they didn’t provide me with the OS (aka didn’t purchase it direct) they will “only” support the hardware if something happens.
It’s okay, 'sides, they are about an hour drive for me so it wasn’t worth it to take it to them. It was my fault for not specifying which OS version I have licensing for, course they could have asked too.
Oh well, I will survive. As soon as I get Win 2000 I will let you know. It’s not that I don’t have Win95 licensing it’s just that you can by pass installing Win95 before installing Win98.
