Subj : Win2000 refuses to insta
To   : Jeff Guerdat
From : William Grinolds
Date : Tue May 30 2000 10:31 am

Jeff Guerdat wrote in a message to William Grinolds:

 JG> You appear to have numerous hardware issues that need to be
 JG> resolved.  The USB controller, etc. should be addressed before
 JG> continuing.  Why is the PCI Ethernet controller not available?

It was my old RTL8029-compatible NIC that I replaced with an SMC1211, which is 
Win2K-compatible.  It left a "fingerprint" in the registry, it seems.  And the 
Tape devices I'm not worried about - it doesn't make reliable backups anyway, I 
rarely use it, and I plan on getting rid of it in favor of my CD-RW.  The USB 
is Win2K-compatible - that is, with a driver that I can download from the VIA 
web site.  That just about covers all of the hardware issues that the Upgrade 
Tool reported.

BTW, I'm not upgrading Win98 - I'm installing Win2K as a separate OS.  My Win98 
installation is still too valuable to me for the very reason that some programs 
will never be able to run under Win2K.

WG>BTW, according to everything that I've read about my motherboard, PCI Slot
WG>1 will share an IRQ with the AGP, and PCI Slot 4 will share
WG>an IRQ with USB.  This means that if all PCI slots are
WG>full, they would require at least 3 IRQ's.  So what's the
WG>explanation for PCI Slot 3, I wonder...?

 JG> The explanation may well be in the other noted hardware issues.  It
 JG> may be a bad motherboard...

I do plan on eventually upgrading my processor to an Athlon which also means 
upgrading the motherboard - maybe I'll have better luck when that's done.

Bill
Internet: wgrinolds@mail.com 
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