At 07:47 PM 9/11/99 +0000, you wrote:
>The driver file I load from DOS is called AZTPNP.EXE,
>and when running from the command line it works just fine,
>but when I tried to add it to config.sys it doesn't work,
>the system locks up. I tried to add it like this, but
>I'm obviously doing something wrong:
>DEVICE=C:\AZT\AZTPNP.EXE
Try loading it in your Autoexec.bat instead. just put the path and run
command: C:\AZT\AZTPNP
>somewhere in your autoexec.bat file and it probably will work fine.
>
>
>On the subject of the motherboard, my computer is
>a 486SX-25 with a single 120Mb IDE hard drive, so
>installing Win95 on this computer is not an option.
It could be, but you would have less variety and function. I have a
laptop, 486SL, 4 MB RAM and 120MB drive running win95, netscape 2.0, Eudora
light, word perfect 6.1 and plan to put basic PC anywhere onto it in a
while. Yes, you can run it if you want to, but you will likely lose a lot
of speed and functionality.
I have since upgraded to 8MB RAM and that is helpful, also partitioned 18MB
off the hard drive and made it into a permanent swap file so I could
effectively load C: full. Data is not kept on the hard drive, documents
and so forth, nor any toys save Mahjongg and solitaire. I wouldn't
consider it worthwhile to have w95 on this machine if it were my sole
machine, I'd go win3.11 probably (I really love graphics to look at) but as
it is a support machine for continuing work when I have to be away, good
compatibility is more important at this point than speed or space.
>Actually, I'm considering buying a low-end Pentium,
>I can feel the Microsoft representative breathing
>down my neck, telling me how Win95 will solve all my
>problems, autodetect my soundcard and CD-ROM drive,
>etc. I have my eyes on a P60 (don't laugh) that I
>can get very cheaply, it would interface well with
>my other recently bought equipment, I think.
>
>/Emil Josefsson, the second-hand guy
Aww, but that would take all the FUN out of it! No, seriously, if you have
a choice, don't buy pnp and other windows intended equipment. It is
"castrated" to pass functionality over to software, losing much firmware
off the card. It means because of your equipment you are giving up your
choices for software. You'll pay more in the end for your sofware than for
your hardware and that's just not sane with such a cheaply mass produced
item. Stick to full fledged things, nowadays they come with a PNP jumper
setting along with the usual IRQ/COM port settings so that it can function
either PnP or manually. Usually they are set at PnP as factory default. A
card like that can be used in any O/S. Don't skimp on the equipment, it is
the physical thing you will hold in your hand for many years, software
flows freely in the datastream and is easy to replace.
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