Servicing my PC

[bopdude]

Originally Posted by greencreeper

As I understand it, XP comes with its own drivers (more than in 98) - if you're lucky there'll be a driver for your hardware and if you're really lucky it might even work properly

True, xp does come complete with 'most' drivers you'll need but in the old days when I ran '98 I had all the drivers etc etc that I needed stored on a aseperate partition, no biggie to install from there

[Plonking]

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

DOS? DOS? Luxury! There were 'undred and fifty of us, in't shoe box, in't middle o' road, and every morning we had to get up, and resolder our printed circuit boards for 12 hours a day, when ever we wanted to reinstall our OS....

lol, i hope i'm not the only one here who still has the 11 floppy disks required to install windows 3.11 ah, those were the days... IRQ conflicts, messing up my config.sys and autoexec.bat every time i tried to get a game working

serisouly though, back on topic.. dusting makes a world of difference to your pc the other day i had to install a second hard drive (to put linux on) on this pc, and there were mountains of dust (lierally like little anthills) all over the place.. not healthy at all!

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[Mr_love_monkey]

I've found German Sherpards to be very detrimental to PC's - I opened mine (the PC, not the dog) the other month, the first time in ages, and found enough dog hair trapped inside the front of the case, so I could knit a new dog if I'd wanted.

[dilli-theclaw]

Originally Posted by Plonking

lol, i hope i'm not the only one here who still has the 11 floppy disks required to install windows 3.11 ah, those were the days... IRQ conflicts, messing up my config.sys and autoexec.bat every time i tried to get a game working

I still have my DOS disks - my win3 and 3.11 on floppy - and win95 on floppy

As for servicing - all my systems get a fresh reinstall every 6 months to get the crap off them.