Subj : Re: Reinstalling W98
To   : Alan Zisman
From : MIKE ROSS
Date : Fri Feb 11 2005 02:16 pm

"Alan Zisman" bravely wrote to "MIKE ROSS" (11 Feb 05  08:51:00)
 --- on the heady topic of "Re: Reinstalling W98"

 -=> MIKE ROSS wrote to Alan Zisman <=-

 AZ> A new install into the same folder as an existing installation
 AZ> overwrites existing files, but keeps existing settings...
[,,,]
 AZ>  In my experience, most of the time,
 AZ> it's a waste of time-- but I often try it, since it's so much less
 AZ> traumatic for the user.
 AZ> Installing into a different folder gives a clean Windows
 AZ> installation...

You are right there... thanks for clearing it up.


 MR> While you are here, I was upgrading a box dedicated to MIDI from a 486
 MR> DX4-120 + PCI video to a pentium-120 (socket 7) and the o.s. from w3.1
 MR> to w95. I wanted to use w95 because it loads pretty fast compared to
 MR> w98se. Problem is the p120 + w95 exhibits dropped notes with the
 MR> softwave synthesis no matter the resolution quality setting. The
 MR> problem doesn't happen right away but after a few 10's of seconds into
 MR> a song playback when things get busy. I didn't want to upgrade the
 MR> sound card to hardware wave synthesis ($$$).
[,,,]
 AZ> Sorry... I don't really have anything I could say about this that
 AZ> wouldn't be guesswork. In most case, Win95 drivers will work with
 AZ> Win98SE, so that is probably worth a try.


Yes, I was hoping it will still work. Do programs run noticeably
faster under w98se than under w95 or what? I'll load a different hd
into the p120 and try it then but the time w98se takes to load is a
dog. I'll try to bare bones the configuration, get rid of networks,
and hope the loading speeds up a bit. Otherwise the only thing left
will be the pIImmx+w98se box.


 AZ> If the 486/Win3.1 box was working fine, why upgrade it?

The software synthesis for that card adds more than twice the
instrument sounds and many drum sets (9?) under w95 + pentium. Under
w3.1 it is restricted to general midi which has about 127 intruments,
not bad, but only 1 drum set and this is limiting from time to time.

 Mike

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