While Windows XP is an excellent PnP OS, which works very well with newly released hardware, it is not particularly good with certain legacy cards, or hardware items that use the same chipset. Where possible, install hardware items manually.
-- Install Windows XP on a bare system. (Remove all cards, leaving just the video card.) -- Install modem, NIC, SCSI, etc, one at a time, after successful Windows installation. -- Best option is to install manually, especially where legacy cards are involved. This will avoid Windows picking a wrong driver for the card. For example, the ESS 2838s chipset is used in a number of modems, which differ only in the firmware and design. If you let Windows XP to automatically install the ESS FM3623 Data Fax, PCI modem, it will end up picking the wrong driver for this modem, thereby causing the system to crash at random afterwards. (The correct driver for this modem is "ESS ES56H-PI Data Fax Modem".) When this happens, the only way to correct the problem, as far as I know, is to remove the partition, reformat the hard drive, and reinstall Windows. -- Windows XP is not compatible with certain hardware combinations. For example, the combination of ECS K7S5A Socket A motherboard, ATI Rage II+ PCI graphic card, and Windows XP does not allow the floppy drive to read or write and produces an I/O error message, although installation appears to be smooth and trouble-free and the hardware resources table in XP tells you that these items are working fine, and you can format floppy diskettes. The same ECS board, ATI card, and floppy drive work happily under Windows 98. -- Always avoid using aggressive settings in CMOS during Windows XP installation. Fine-tune afterwards. The above strategy came from real life experience. Hope this info helps. Stan Loo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicky Avery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "R:Base list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 12:36 PM Subject: XP > > FYI > > I just read an article > http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D21023,00.asp > warning about the consequences of WXP's default setting to automatic > upgrade. Apparently, some of the patches are worse than what they are > trying to fix. If you have sites running on XP which suddenly break, > this could be a reason. The advice is to switch from automatic upgrade > to automatic notify when new patches become available. > > YMMV etc > > Nicky > > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l
