I am using intel in this particular machine. Shannon
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 14:30, Boyd Davezac wrote: > Not sure if this makes a difference, but I have never had an Intel chip > always AMD and one Cyrix (when their chips were good). But I have been > complaining about Windows crashing on my machine to everyone and it has come > to my attention that a lot of people don't have these problems. Those people > that don't always have an intel chip. Just yesterday I watched a friend of > mine's Win98 crash horribly about 5 times in an hour. He is the self > proclaimed Blue Screen King. However, he, like me has an AMD chip. So I am > wondering if I can take a pole to see if people whose machines often crash > have an AMD chip? > > Boyd > > P.S. I found that ocasionally Linux locks up on my machine when playing > Unreal Tournament. But I think this is due to poor ventilation on my chip > which is a whole other argument about heatsink/fan engineers that design > their fan to sit right where the motherboard power supply goes. AARRRGH! > DON'T BUY COMPUSA HEATSINKS. > > > >From: Shannon Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 16:42, Grant Belgard wrote: > > > Today we had a slide show presentation at Baton Rouge > > > High with pictures of students throughout the year. > > > The laptop was running Powerpoint (obviously on > > > Windows) and it crashed halfway through. It took so > > > long to reboot that we didn't have enough time to see > > > any more. The mob of about 1,200 was ready to have > > > Bill Gates' head. I have a feeling that the "Windows" > > > bar on that chart is going to jump over a few more > > > places to the right this evening... > > > > > > > > > Grant > > > >My windows experience for the day has been installing win 2000 server on > >a fresh, clean machine and going to the windows update, installing the > >service pack & critical updates, then rebooting the machine. It would > >not boot after that! It hangs at some point - and no matter how long I > >let it sit there, it will not finish booting! The *&$*#&$^&@[EMAIL > >PROTECTED]@ > >machine is two hours old - and winblows has already died!!!!! > > > >Shannon > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ -- __________________________________________________________________ Shannon Roddy California Institute of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston Observatory ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
