Re: Trouble in Windoze 98 land?

[Skull <skull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wierd, I've been using win98 for the last year and its been very stable on
both
upgrade and fresh install on at least 7 very different computers, most of
which
are desktop and a couple which are laptops.  I've had little problems that the
media is talking about.  Sure, I was a beta tester, but I'm not really biased.
The win98 betas and final release are IMHO far superior to the win95 beta
and final
releases.

Darron

>I tried upgrading my Win95 machine to 98, and it blew out a bunch of
>drivers, and made my system quite unstable.  For instance, every time I
>would connect to the internet using the 98 dialup utility, Win98 would reset
>all of my mouse settings including speed,  and double click speed.  Weird I
>know, but what else do you expect :)
>
>Anyways, I formatted my Fat partition that had 98 installed on it and
>installed it from scratch, and I havn't had a single problem with it since.
>Mabye I'm just lucky.
>
>-Matt Crampton
> Eagle@Mail.Tds.Net
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert G. Brown <bob@acm.org>
>To: klug@klug.armintl.com <klug@klug.armintl.com>
>Date: Monday, July 06, 1998 12:45 AM
>Subject: Re: Trouble in Windoze 98 land?
>
>
>>I saw something about this on slashdot.org, they are having
>>some DNS problems at the moment, but there were more details
>>there, mentioning specific hardware problems, like certain
>>controllers (some Adaptec cards) and video adapters hanging
>>machines.  There are a number of comments indicating that
>>the upgrade procedure from 95-98 is a minefield, and you can
>>trash your system if you're not careful -- or merely unlucky.
>>
>>Through master sluething, I've found the URL of this article....
>>
>> http://slashdot.org/articles/9807021430211.shtml
>>
>>But it can't be fetched right now; keep an eye out if you're
>>really interested.
>>                                                 ---> RGB <---