Phoebus Dokos wrote:
USB to (any kind of) networking is a bad solution at best... especially if your USB/NIC are USB 1.1 compatible... you WILL experience at best hiccups or temporary lock-ups and that's not the machine's fault (nor Windows' impressively :-)
That was not the problem.
This was a officeconnect usb wireless networking interface which I have had working fine in 2 other XP machines, one win 98se and one win ME. On the one XP machine only, it went part way through the installation process and bombed then came up with an error message - repeatedly. That same machine took 5 attempts to install a USB scanner, 3 or 4 to install an Epson printer on USB and dozens of attempts to install a USB camera. Eventually, after much perseverence, and many periods when the machine wouldn't even boot, I got all the items to install properly, (except for the network interface) but I can't say that anything was done differently the time the installation was successful.
I have two PCs permanently networked; one using a standard 10/100 ethernet card, the other using an SMC USB to ethernet adapter. Both are dual boot win98 and linux and the network works perfectly with any mix between the two operating systems.
Sounds more like memory failure (Most of the early memory wouldn't work properly at marginal speeds).. except if it were a Asustek (Asus). Some of their PII mainboards although pricey were notoriously misdesigned.
No, it was tested with other memory - with the same problem. I'm not talking about marginal speeds; but running a 100MHz bus at 75MHz, on memory that should have been good for 133MHz. The change of motherboard did the trick. It wasn't Asustek, I think it was PCPartner. The replacement mobo (Pcchips) has never given any problems and that PC is still using the original memory.
Jeremy
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