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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 04:21 am (UTC)Yeah - Seems my analogy fell on its arse a bit according to DJM4's LJ anyway - Doh.
I think the Windows 2000 / 98 problems come from something 98 must "insert" or leave behind or something that interfere's - Probably legacy systems or something. I have a P2-266 with 96 meg of RAM running 2K&NTFS that out run's machines with 98 involved that are 2 and 3 times the "numbered" performance (p2-450 / p3-667's) with 128Meg of RAM.
What kind of stuff is not running on 2K that does under 98?
The only things that I have ever encountered that dont run under 2K from 98 are generally quite old legacy hardware (parallel port scanners), or software that requires protected memory DOS environment.
You can sometimes however bodge NT drivers for 2K - if that helps.
As to EasyDivX - You'll be ripping DVD's quicker than you can rent them :-)
Laterz
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