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I'll also throw in my vote for a clean install. Windows does tend to
degrade over time. You could look at this as an opportunity to look at
your backup procedures. It might just be simple stuff but what's it worth
to her?
When the hard drive suddenly started to give out in my 8-year old's PC this
past spring I saw the light on doing regular backups. I almost lost his
e-mail but I was able to save it at the last minute. Granted, it was just
simple correspondence to grandma and grandpa but I had my pride at stake.
<g> I also hadn't been backing up my wife's e-mail, documents, etc. She
uses her computer for real work (as a professor). I've now got a server
doing daily and weekly backups to a hard drive and CD-RW of everybody's
stuff.
Food for thought...
Dave Parnin
Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN 46571
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Just as a side comment, that doesn't directly help you right now, unless of
course you take the advice, is never do an upgrade. ALWAYS do a clean
install of an OS. This is emphasized even more going from a 9x lien to an
NT line. They are completely different operating systems underneath.
There is even a chance that a variety of programs you use on the computer
won't run, or at least need different versions, under NT line.
I can guarantee life is easier if you do it that way.
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From: "Tom Liotta" <qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 7:42 PM
Subject: [PCTECH] W98 to W2K upgrades
> Though I'll accept all suggestions, this is more a rant than a request
> for help.
>
> My wife has used a PC we've had for some 6 years. She's no computer
> person by any means, but has gotten well into e-mail, browsing and
> similar PC functions. Spends nearly as much time as I do at her keyboard.
>
> Nothing fancy... 333Mhz, 256MB. Upgraded from the original W95 to W98 SE
> a couple years ago when I had a spare license. Another spare license
> brought the attempt to upgrade to W2K this weekend. Upgrades were
> motivated by desires for more stability.
>
> Start the upgrades by general cleanup -- everything from running a
> couple rounds of RegClean to removing unused programs and apps to disk
> defrag. Common stuff. The primary concern was to make the newly upgraded
> PC look as similar to the previous version as possible while getting the
> benefits of an OS upgrade. She has the apps she uses and knows; they do
> exactly what she wants them to do and there's zero need for new bells
> and whistles. (An ideal 'user'.)
>
> Now the rant...
>
> The W2K upgrade does _not_ like the ATI 3D RAGE PRO AGP display adapter.
> I have no idea why not. When it boots, the logon window appears; and
> approx one minute later, the system crashes hard with a
> DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error in AtiBt829.sys, does a memory dump
> and reboots.
>
> Shouldn't be a big deal. Search for info in various forums, search for
> W2K drivers, etc. I found a few, downloaded, transferred on floppy, used
> Safe Mode to work some replacements, but clearly not to the point of
> making a difference. Go to microsoft.com for Hardware Compatibilty List
> issues or driver updates. But...
>
> Though there seem to be a few issues with AtiBt829.sys and W2K upgrades,
> there are apparently _zero_ sets of suggestions on exactly what to do.
> No info anywhere on how to actually update the drivers.
>
> Microsoft Windows Update is the real knee-slapper in this case. Of
> course, there's no way to connect to Windows Update with the PC in
> question; I need to connect with a different PC in order to download
> what Microsoft recommends in this case... and there does seem to be a
> recommended fix, there are references on microsoft.com and links to
> follow that lead to Windows Update for the fix.
>
> [THE rant:] But when I connect with another PC -- which has a different
> display adapter and therefore has no need for no stinkin' AtiBt829.sys
> update -- Windows Update provides no way that I can find to get to the
> recommended fix. Aaaaggghhhh. All links go to Windows Update.
>
> Meanwhile, there's Mrs. Me tapping her foot in the background... "When
> can I have my computer back?"
>
> Fortunately, Safe Mode shows that all the e-mail archives and documents
> and photos and everything else are still intact.
>
> Sigh.
>
> Tom Liotta
>
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