Greg,
Your point is well taken. I apologize if I was curt. I do completely
understand your position. I will move to WinXP in due time. Right now
that is a bit of a financial and logistical problem. I completely agree
that Asus/Intel/JMicron did not do much testing with w2k. I was just
reporting my initial success with my 9yr old OS. I fully accept I have
serious limitations with I might choose to do with the new toy ATM. My
plans are small.
I was most surprised when it loaded and continues to run in a solid
fashion; just like it always has in the past. Yes, I know that w2k support
from Redmond will die in the future. That will be a sad day for
me. Hopefully I will be moved forward to XP by that day. That is the
overall plan, anyway.
Yes, it does appear that JMicron/JMB636 does not care for w2k at all. ATM,
this is okay. I have it disabled. I am fully sata (w/converters) now and
plan to stay this way as I continue my updates of 2 other machines.
Best,
Duncan
At 13:30 11/21/2008 -0600, you wrote:
Oh, I wasn't trying to push Vista on you. I know full well that you have no
willingness to move that far. However, I think you would be doing yourself a
favor by at least moving to XP...since it is, afterall, still within
mainstream support. Win2k was fine when you were using hardware that was
released while it was still in mainstream support...but those days are gone.
I doubt that Intel with P45/ICH10, JMicron with the JMB636, or Asus with the
board as a whole did extensive validation with Win2k. That's the only point
I was trying to make.
Greg
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 1:10 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [H] Observations of the new Intel PC
>
> Thank you Greg,
> But let us just agree to disagree. I fully accept that you use Vista.
> You
> remain the single, vocal, early Vista adopter that seems to have few/no
> problems with Vista. I do not get the same feeling of others in this
> collective that use Vista. Please, I do not wish to start another OS
> war. Different strokes, after all!
>
> I fully accept that you feel my 9-year old OS could be causing some odd
> issues. But, I will say that I have zero OS related problems in the 9
> years
> I have used w2kpro. W2k has been completely stable for my needs. I
> will
> deal with any problems as I migrate my machines to WinXPpro.
>
> But, I do appreciate your comment.
> Duncan
>
> At 12:51 11/21/2008 -0600, you wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware-
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
> > > Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 12:13 PM
> > > To: Hardware Group
> > > Subject: [H] Observations of the new Intel PC
> > >
> > > dvdrom are AOK. I did complete a fully patched w2ksp4 install.
> The OS
> >
> >I strongly suspect this to be the cause of most of the oddities and
> issues
> >you've encountered. Running a 9-year-old OS on 6-month-old hardware is
> just
> >asking for odd issues...
> >
> >
> >Greg
