--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 263 WINDOWS '95 Ref: F5P00220 Date: 05/16/98 From: JOSEPH THOMAS Time: 07:34am \/To: JEREMY MANN (Read 7 times) Subj: HELP WITH SOUND UNDER WIN95 Start, setting, control panel,System, device manager, sound & VIdeo controllers see if any item(s) red or yellow marked. if not , properties, update drivers, good luck. --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: Southern Star - sstar.com - V.32b/V.34+ - 504-885-5928 - (1:396/1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 263 WINDOWS '95 Ref: F5P00221 Date: 05/16/98 From: BILL REYNA Time: 12:03am \/To: DAVE DAVIDSON (Read 7 times) Subj: WIN95 & Comports... > I have the normal I/O card with Com1 & 2 at the > "stock" settings which > work fine for the Mouse (Com1 and External Modem > Com2) however, I have > an Internal modem set for Com3 and IRQ5. > WIN95 see's the modem on Com3 but can't access it > because of the non- > standard IRQ. How can I tell WIN95 to use COM3 and > IRQ5? [----------^^^^ you said the above ^^^^-----------] IRQ5, is also used as the std. default for a sound card. So if you have a sound card, there's a conflict most likely. I suggest you reset the IRQ to yet another open setting if possible, other wise you'll be "tweaking" until the dust settles. Your system knows there's two modem drivers present???, one has to be the default it will use when calling out under DUN. Check that out as I'm sure there's a trick to that, but not remembered by me at present. Otherwise, you have to change it to select which one is being used. good luck -_-_-Bill --- * Origin: Bordertown/TEXMEX bbs (419)862-3423 (1:234/43) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 263 WINDOWS '95 Ref: F5P00222 Date: 05/16/98 From: JERRY MURPHY Time: 08:43pm \/To: JASON LAMB (Read 7 times) Subj: Usb technology JL>I just recently heard of Universal Serial BUS (USB). Has anyone else heard of JL>this? I want to take advantage of this technology. How do I check to see if my JL>systen has this...what do I look for? I don't know what the USB port looks JL>like. Also, is there a way to upgrade a system that doesn't have one so that JL>it would? If so, what is involved, components, cost, etc? Rather interesting and in-depth article on this very topic in the May 1998 _PC World_ magazine, starting on page 172. the Jerry Murphy in Lakewood, Ohio, USA * DeLuxe2 1.21 #8814 * The pudding is in the proof! --- InterEcho 1.19 * Origin: Nerd's Nook, Westlake OH, U.S.A. (1:157/3) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 263 WINDOWS '95 Ref: F5P00223 Date: 05/16/98 From: PAULA SLINGLEND Time: 01:47am \/To: ALL (Read 7 times) Subj: Win95 Games Hi, I was wondering what's the name of a program that has many games for Win95. The games include: Taipei, Ski Free, Tetris, Chip's Challenge, Jezzball, and several others. -Paula S. --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: GATEWAY BBS, Burton, Mich (810)742-6126 * (1:2240/320) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 263 WINDOWS '95 Ref: F5P00224 Date: 05/17/98 From: ROGER GONZALES Time: 11:18am \/To: JAMES MCCOMBE (Read 7 times) Subj: Sending Fax/US Robotics d JM> RG> Winword caused a general protection fault in module UNIDRV.DLL at JM> RG> 0002:00002411. JM> RG> Registers: JM> RG> EAX=00000000 CS=3577 EIP=00002411 EFLGS=00000246 JM>Well the next question that I am having for you is could you please give e JM>a list of all the programs that you are running in the background. JM>The next time that that happens, would you please press CTRL-ALT-DELETE JM>and give us a list of all the programs that are in the close programs JM>box. Thanks to your reply. The programs running in the background are as follows: * Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar * American Heritage * Wall Paper of course * Start Up Icons (recycle bin/ my computer/ printer toolbox/ the internet/ microsoft outbox/ and briefcase.) Here are some programs listed in close program box if you press CTRL-ALT-DELETE. * Microsoft Word * American Heritage * Explorer * Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar * Send Fax * Find Fast * Sage * Systray * Watchdog * Vshwin32 Roger ========================================================================== ******* roger.gonzales@midwan.com ******* ========================================================================== --- * OLXWin 1.00a * Back Up My Hard Drive? I Can't Find The Reverse Switch! * Origin: Fidonet: Midwan Systems - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (2:542/500) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 263 WINDOWS '95 Ref: F5P00225 Date: 05/16/98 From: JAMES WOMACK Time: 08:00am \/To: BILL DAWSON (Read 7 times) Subj: Seagate IDE vs. SCSI BD>Well, I'll say that I didn't see any need for either side to get all BD>huffy about these inconsistencies. I had one WD fail brand-new, BD>and one Maxtor die extremely prematurely. Warranties saved me a BD>lot of money, but not time or inconvenience. I have almost no real BD>experience with Conner or Quantum, and gradually moved away from BD>Maxtor drives when for the same money I could get a faster WD HDD BD>and now the latter are all I have in active use. So basically your experience testifies in direct opposition of my own. Based on your experience, you prefer WD. Based on my experience I prefer WD and Maxtor. And this rankles those who insist stating such preferences are surveys of one or absolute statements hence implying we seek to convert a world to our drum beat by tossing around lies in essence. It hits me as sort of like, "Gee I like Mexican food, it's great stuff. But I hate Italian because it gives me heartburn everytime I eat it." Response: Italian food is one of the world's great cuisines. Your survey of one is a sick display of racism, just because you don't like Italian food doesn't mean it's bad stuff. Many people prefer it over any other. Oh for gosh sake, the statement was obviously a personal preference and not one that put down Italian food and sought to keep others from eating it! So you like WD? Happens I do too. So you don't cotton to Maxtor? It just happens that prefer their drives even over WD. Are either of us wrong? Of course not as you easily recognized. But some folks will come after you all the same. BD>>I've never felt quite "flush enough" when swapping drives to spend BD>>the premium for SCSI, and in recent years, EIDE is offering great BD>>performance at reasonable costs, so that's what I've purchased. I have always been IDE and now EIDE, but I have no qualms about going SCSI. I always do my own HD installations, it's not that hard. Hard has been when I go to a shop to get something done totally unrelated to the HD and get the machine back with a dead drive. Often you can't prove anything so you're stuck. Especially when they say, "Oh we noticed the drive was ready to fail. We offer a comparable one for low price blah blah." Darn liars, so now it's rare t see me go to a shop at all. I am a what is thought to be a prime target. I'm Deaf so like women and certain obviously uninformed folks, they figure, yummy, easy money. When it doesn't work out that way they get in a huff. One place even fried my MB and claimed that it was not grounded properly when in reality it was. On checking it. I found that two mounting screws had been removed so the board was touching the chassis. NOT ME NOT ME. No problem, you ever see me in the shop again and I'll tellanyone who listen at work about you, bye. So I do all my own hardware work these days. Now and then, I give CompUSA my money cause they tend to be less evil this way. JW> Same here, but I will have to do it now as I am out of IDE ports JW> and must install a CDR-W and an internal zip drive. But then, I ha JW> the advantage of monthyl computer shows where people all but give JW> away stuff. BD>AFAIK, we get exactly one such show a year here. Just one? I'm sorry. Guess I'm blessed here in Vegas. We got two coming up here this month (different group). BD>>But, the way I have my relationship to Seagate figured, my odds hav BD>>been so poor previously, so I avoid the brand now.. JW> Once again you see the obvious where Jeff cannot see the same. BD>It all goes back to the over-generalization rising out of "it does BD>not work for me, so it's obviously no good." That may well be, but you won't find me having said that. It was assumed. You don't like Seagate either. But where in your statement am I going to find ". . .so obviously its no good"? Yes, the concept is implied, but common sense tells me your experience is such that you don't consider it worth the risk of trying yet again which is my same view. I don't see you telling everyone to not buy Seagate, nor did I say this. BD> There have been many BD>time I've felt somewhat like Al Capp's bad-luck character, Joe BD>Btsflk, with a cloud of misery following him -- "if it weren't for BD>bad luck, I'd have no luck at all." So I avoid generalizing, and BD>seek work-arounds when my experience bucks the odds. I remember that character. Your views would serve some well here. BD>That's something I've yet to inflict on a working HDD. Dropping it? Well, I was lucky that time. You won't find me doing it on purpose. But that matter, a friend back in 1974 was in S.F. He dropped his Minolta lens, I think. It rolled and bounced down the street with him chasing it. When he finally got it, it was well dented. But darn when he screwed it on the camera it worked fine! He showed me teh lens, it looks pretty banged up but yes it works. But he says, he'd never want that to happen again. Common sense. But that expereince has him swearing by a Minolta. Did he try to steer me away from buying my Canon SLR camera? No, he told me why he preferred Minolta. Another told me why he preferred Nikon, and I ended up buying a Canon. BD>Computing BD>these days is getting so complicated that duplicating a failure is BD>difficult. Well, Jean assures me computers have a mind of their own. BD>During the 1987-1992 period of my computer use, I often assembled my BD>own systems from scratch, and figured I could get the best choices BD>in parts cheaper than buying someone else's choices and getting BD>less performance. Too many times, I found I had to take something BD>or other back to exchange it because of incompatibilities -- that BD>happened so much after we got into the 32-Bit Intel era that I gave BD>up on the idea. My time running around returning stuff is worth BD>more than what I could save! Well, in my case, I still make my own systems. But because I was building for a specific OS (NT 4.0), I called Redmond to be sure I got what I should be getting. Under their guidance, I spent a fair sum. Under their guidance, I installed and configured. Under their guidance, NT refused to do anything they said it would. Under their guidance, I went with 95 which does what NT 4.0 was basically supposed to do, make my computer boot and run my applications. BD>Now I have a system builder do the assembly, based on somewhat BD>looser kinds of specs, although I do typically name WD as primary BD>HDD choice. Now, instead of just jamming in pieces, I read manuals. Yes, I know it's a shock tome too. I read them to see what is required and so forth. I call or e-mail hardware and software makers to be sure. Finally I buy what I need and put it together as specificied, no more maverick behavior now. This worked just fine until I bumped into NT 4.0. Now with LINUX, I better not have this problem cause it I do, I'll stay with the devil I know. --- * PW * --- Corvette BBS LV,NV 702-431-2284 * Origin: (1:209/218) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 263 WINDOWS '95 Ref: F5P00226 Date: 05/16/98 From: JAMES WOMACK Time: 08:19am \/To: DOUG SORBER (Read 7 times) Subj: win98 DS>On May-12-1998 at 06:51, James Womack wrote to Minh Van DS>About win98: JW> headache which I define as crashing without justificable reason an JW> forcing me to have functions and programs I do not want, I'm gone JW> permanently. DS>I have been running win98 since the early builds, and even the early bu DS>beat OSR2 in stability. RC5 is the fastest build, and most stable i hav DS>from a microsoft product. The last crash i had was with build 1602, and DS>was from using a then buggy NU 3.0. The computer doesnt lockup, doesnt DS>and is faster than OSR2 is. Yeah, Hans gave a rather thorough report on his experience and outlook. I have sort of learned the hard way to listen to Hans. I will definitely give 98 a chance. Only this time around, I expect the product to work as advertsied. I expect I will see some quirks here and there but nothing like the hell and down time NT put me through. This is their last chance. DS>I have it on these computers: DS>AMD K6-233 MMX - 64 Megs Ram - 8.4 GB Drive Exactly the same kind of system I have except my HD is a WD 4.0 and my memory is 80MB. So no excuse for being anything less than functional. Especially since Redmond OK'd this for me a few months ago for NT. For those who might want to claim that there are other hardware factors: AMD K-6 200 80MB RAM WD 4.0 GB HD 1.44 TEAC FD Ext Zip Drive ZOOM 33.6 Modem EXT Cyber Drive 16X CD Intel TX MB 512 cache Canon 620 Printer Canon 4550 Printer Epson LQ-570 Printer [printers hooked to a data switch] Mustek 800II color scanner Primary software: PageMaker 5.0 WP 8.0 ( entire suite ) Paintshop Pro 4.0 Business online ( phone, fax, and zip code #'s AOL PCPLUS 3.0 ( have 4.5 but it forces IE even when you say "no." then the regular program refuses to work if Netscape is present on the drive) Juno TransMac ( reads Mac files creates same ) OmniPage 8.0 MathCad 6.0 Precision Mapping And it works fine with 95, thank you. --- * PW * --- Corvette BBS LV,NV 702-431-2284 * Origin: CORVETTE BBS - Las Vegas, Nevada (702) 431-2284 (1:209/218) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 263 WINDOWS '95 Ref: F5P00227 Date: 05/16/98 From: JAMES WOMACK Time: 08:30am \/To: JEAN PARROT (Read 7 times) Subj: Homebrewed . JP> And a nice morning to you Spaceman James. JW> a second Pentium 200 or 233 thsi summer plus a 386 for a secretary JW> of a Deaf organization, she only needs wordprocessing and a JW> spreadsheet, so. JP> Too bad you are in NV. I have here a complete 286 that I would JP>gladly contribute to that cause. If you really want to do that, I'llgive you teh address and person to send it to. Not here in LV, they are based in Maryland. JP> But let me still disagree with you on one count. A putor always JP>does the keystroke that you give it. It might not be what you expect JP>but it knows not otherwise. I will agree that the responses that it JP>gives you are a bit hard to take: Bad command etc.. it never says: JP>Hey, this was nice, do it again. :-) If you say so. JP> I am toying with the idea of uping this putor, no not this one JP>128, the 486/66 that I have too. The homebrewed one. If I want this W98 JP>to operate cricket, I might want to get a 200-233 zapper in there. But JP>I would also have to get " new-to-me " PCI cards. This old board does JP>not honor them. I do suggest you replace the motherboard. While VL-Bus cards and ISA cards are still around, I am finding PCI cards are the primary focus these days and they are better. Putting a 200-233 in the 486 might be like putting a Porsche engine in a 1955 Ford truck. The engine will fire up but you won't get the same performance cause the truck (board) is too heavy and just not designed for the cornering and speed and the weight your engine must push along will only burn out what is otherwise a good engine. Get a MB that is designed to around that CPU if you want it to see a difference in performance. JP> Are you doing any other home brew ? Yes, for the LINUX and the donation. I might move up to the 300-400 MHZ AMD when they're ready. But really, for my current needs, I have all the muscle necessary. If my wife decides to let go of her pacifier ( Win 3.11 ), I may upgrade her to a Pentium 200+. Right now, she doesn't want me anywhere near her computer after seeing what NT did to me earlier in the year. Plus 3.1 has worked fine for her. Not one crash, mind you. Not one GPF, but this was true for me too in my last two years of using 3.1. Course, I tweaked things here and there. But if she decides she wants mor emuscle, I'll homebrew her one, it's fun to do. --- * PW * --- Corvette BBS LV,NV 702-431-2284 * Origin: (1:209/218) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 263 WINDOWS '95 Ref: F5P00228 Date: 05/16/98 From: JAMES WOMACK Time: 09:28am \/To: MIKE MAGUIRE (Read 7 times) Subj: IE 4.0 & Outlook '98 MM>At home I upgraded my PC to one w/ OSR2 and IE3.2 and I've lost all pat MM>w/ ie3.2. I'm going to load either NS3.x or NS Communicator. Much bet MM>browser. PSSST! I agree with this, but you be careful here. There are folks in these parts who'll kill your CPU, rape your modem, and burn your daughters for saying something like this. :-> --- * PW * --- Corvette BBS LV,NV 702-431-2284 * Origin: CORVETTE BBS - Las Vegas, Nevada (702) 431-2284 (1:209/218) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 263 WINDOWS '95 Ref: F5P00229 Date: 05/17/98 From: WILLIAM GRINOLDS Time: 07:48am \/To: AUKE REITSMA (Read 7 times) Subj: Finding used interrupts Auke Reitsma wrote in a message to All: AR> How can I find any unused (and used) IRQ's? AR> I'll be getting some new hardware requiring interrupts, but as my AR> system is already quite loaded I'm worried that it does not have AR> sufficient resources left. Go to Control Panel, then System. In the box that comes up, click on the Device Manager tab. Go to the Computer icon (at the top) and choose Properties. It'll tell you not only IRQ's, but also I/O ports, DMA channels, and memory usage your computer is currently using. Bill Internet: wgrinolds@pobox.com --- * Origin: ST:TNG Mail System (USR Courier V.E with x2) (1:387/601.2)