System restore restores the system to a working version
Some guy made a pretty interesting CD restore program & you all might want to look at it, you download it (about 3megs): http://www.911cd.net/
“The 911 Rescue CD is an integrated CD-ROM that contains many diagnostics and repairing tools all easily accessed through the 911 Menu, it allows the access to the CDROM drives, the network shares, or both of them at the same time, it also includes the Microsoft Windows 2000/xp Professional Setup files, the Microsoft Windows 98/Me Setup files.”
According to forum descriptions, witnessing belongs in GD.
Your point would have merit if the OP had not mentioned already being in possession of a custom-built machine made with x86 components. While Apple might be developing a port of OS X for the x86 architecture, such an option is not currently available to the OP, unless he happens to be an Apple software developer with access to the project.
That’s been my experience too. On top of that, I really miss backwards compatibility. I’m seriously tempted on a regular basis to go back to 98. That had a breaking in period, but I could get it settled down eventually. I’ve had XP for almost a year now, and it just keeps getting worse. :-p
I suppose I am not being fair to WinXP: I expected it to run faster than 98 (on the same computer, with the same amount of RAM), be fully backwards-compatible with all 98 programs and drivers, and bring some new useful functions. That would have been a better product. It is none of these things, and MS is to blame.
MS broke a huge number of programs and drivers, because they wish to move towards a ever-more complex kernel architecture (the exact opposite of what is known to work best) that will allow them to enforce DRM. I know I never asked for that, did any of you? …The other problem I have with MS is I tend to wonder how much they care about releasing buggy products–they make a lot of revenue off of corporate support services. The OS fiasco makes more sense if you put the cart before the horse: they come out with a new OS when most of the bugs have been found and most of the maintenance contracts are over on the older OS’s…
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Ah, the Mac addict’s worldview summarized in one snide comment. Brilliant.
Unfortunately, I didn’t really have a point. I was just trying to kick up dust/be a typical Mac evangelist.
And I wouldn’t really hold out for an x86 version of OS X. With the G5, Apple’s processor issues are at least forestalled, if not terminated.
/thread hijack
As far as Windows operating systems go, I, as an early adopter, cannot resist the latest version of anything. So my advice is to go with XP pro. As it is the newest version of the Windows OS, it will most likely be the best supported and most updated version from this point out.
Or, you could buy yourself a shiny new PowerMac G5 with OS X (10.3) preinstalled on it. Wouldn’t that be lovely?
the nForce 2 (or nForce 400) is not a video card, it is a chipset. Depending on the configuration of the chipset, it might have GeForce4 MX graphics integrated.
From the looks of things, Nforce2 comes with and without intergrated graphics. If you have the Nforce2 with integrated graphics, it appears that it’s a GeForce 4 MX that is integrated.
You might also try looking at your display properties (right-click the desktop, select properties, go to Settings, click the Advanced button, then Adapter - in Widnows XP - 98 should be similar) and see what’s listed there.
