HAHA My ME system just craped out.!

Silicon Skum

Well I think it's time to format my comp, win ME just took a dump!

Its been sick for a while now, today it just croaked "Rose bud...." and died, or it may have been "Hose crud" not sure on that one.

I can't open anything, not even "My Computer" on the desktop (restarted and tried a system restore / reinstall)

All I get are BSODS and error messages, this thing is screwed.

All I can do is connect to the internet (I'm typing this on it now), and even that is acting up (keeps showing the forum as it was this morning, gota keep refreshing it). What a pice of F{expletive deleted}T!

Now then, what should I install? HMMM, I have win2K or XP pro?
Not sure about XP being able to run some of the older hardware I got in here though.
Amd 2200+ xp
Abit K(?) 333 mobo (lost disk with drivers)
512Mb RAM (two sticks 256)
60Gig IBM drive
SCSI card (cheap generic, have drivers)
SCSI 12speed CDROM (got it and the card for free)
Plextor CD/RW
Gforce 3 Ti 200 (still a good card )
Onboard sound (lost the MB disk so I'll have to D/L the drivers)

Prob b 2K 'cos I got the disk in front of me

I only installed ME 'cos the disk was infront of me too.

Just glad I got the important stuff off the drive first (MP3 etc)

SS

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2old2care · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 2:39 pm Post subject:

Load XP it'll run.

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ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

i say 2000 on a machine like that.......less GUI to run and confuse it, and since there is not HT on that chip (obviously...lol) i think 2k pro will serve you fine....=]

You're a big boy SS....im sure you'll figure it out.........oh and wait a minute......!?!?!?!
what the hell was ME doing on there anyway.......=P
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Silicon Skum · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:03 pm Post subject:

Sorry Nate, I posted to chit chat as it was more of a statement than a question.
My bad.

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JayDubya · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:52 am Post subject:

Yeah, no more Windows Me. Get yourself some 2000 or xp and you'll have no problems . . . hopefully
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Silicon Skum · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:10 am Post subject:

chef · TweakNOOB Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 187

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ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

lol....i got it too........but i guess that doesnt matter now.....=P
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zhensem · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 1:32 pm Post subject:

I'd say go for XP but you should prolly install one and then the other. Try each one for a short "test" period and see which one is best for you.
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2old2care · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 2:01 pm Post subject:

XP...I know it's bloatware, but go to old tweakhound, kick some of the consumer cr4p out of it, and it does okay. It's more usable, the more familiar you get with it. It does have the ability to quite memory hungry though.
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