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lovingbothDo any PC owners have...
a) A dual-boot Win 2000 / Win 98SE system? Any gotchas to watch out for? (Apart from the obvious one of sticking the different versions in different directories...)
b) DivX 5 working for encoding? DivX 5 movies play ok here, and when I had DivX 4 it used to encode, but now if I try to get FlaskMPEG to use DivX 5, it complains it can't open the output stream.
The Mac problems remain - I can get it working (up to a point) one day, then next week - without having turned the machine on, never mind changed anything - it won't boot successfully. Presumably this points to something like a battery failing? But it won't boot even if I do Control-Option-R-P to clear the battery backuped RAM.
And the Mac emulator I've got running (SoftMac2000) won't run the sodding database program (Helix Express) I need - it shows the splash screen then 'watchface cursor's me indefinitely....
a) A dual-boot Win 2000 / Win 98SE system? Any gotchas to watch out for? (Apart from the obvious one of sticking the different versions in different directories...)
b) DivX 5 working for encoding? DivX 5 movies play ok here, and when I had DivX 4 it used to encode, but now if I try to get FlaskMPEG to use DivX 5, it complains it can't open the output stream.
The Mac problems remain - I can get it working (up to a point) one day, then next week - without having turned the machine on, never mind changed anything - it won't boot successfully. Presumably this points to something like a battery failing? But it won't boot even if I do Control-Option-R-P to clear the battery backuped RAM.
And the Mac emulator I've got running (SoftMac2000) won't run the sodding database program (Helix Express) I need - it shows the splash screen then 'watchface cursor's me indefinitely....
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Re: Hola...
Date: 2002-05-12 02:28 am (UTC)Errm - Yeah - LOL - Just seen a report on djm4's diary (who I don't normally look at), but no one else on my friends list has written a report - So - DOH... Heh - My analogy falls flat on it feet for this week...
But regardless - For some reason I have found Win2K / 98SE dual boot & 2000 upgrades from 98 systems really do just blow chunks when it comes to performance - We have this at work - My boss decided he couldn't be bothered doing fresh installs on 2 generations of computers, and decided to just upgrade them. They are P2-450's and p3-667's with 128Meg of RAM. - I set up a generations worth of computers - p2-266's - and running only 96Meg of RAM, their perfomance in loading and booting times outstripped those of the other machines.
(even with FAT32 or converting to NTFS - I think its the legacy stuff that gets dragged over generations that causes problems).
I don't know why it does it - But its come up in a course I recently attended. I don't know the solution, and maybe its to do with networks - But then - the only people who I have generally run into the problems with are sysadmins like myself.
Give it a shot -
Just out of interest- What are you trying to run under 98 that doesn't run under 2K?
As to EasyDivX - Just give it a whirl - and before you know it you'll be knocking off DVD's quicker than you can rent them hehehe.
Laterz
Re: Hola...
Date: 2002-05-12 04:23 am (UTC)This is odd.
The first time I posted this it told me it couldn't determine arguments and had lost the post.
Now its back - So apologies for the double posts - I couldn't be bothered instantly retyping straight away, hence the slightly different answers.
Wierd.
Now Livejournal seems to be losing cookies now aswell.
Odd.
:-S
Oh well - 2 answers for the price of one.