-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-


 WC> Doesn't work, seems the installation software looks for
 WC> Asus components. I could try hacking the software in but
 WC> why bother when I've the 32 bit Win 95 driver already at
 WC> hand?

 CA> No way to just remove the video drivers? Why bother? I guess to
 CA> give W31 the opportunity to display video?

 Oh I'd certianly like to but have never before manually
 installed a driver rather relying on the installation routine
 to take care of that for me.
 I assume there are entries in .ini files as well as the registry
 as well as a utility on the desktop to set resolution
 but am not confident in my ability to kludge it together
 properly especially as regards the registry.
 I imagine were I able to use these drivers my video apps would
 positively scream.
 I could drop the DLL's into \system and move the drivers to where
 the current ones are but lacking a working installation
 executable lack confidence in this approach.

 WC> As the Win 95 OEM CD is happy with current CD drive I'll go
 WC> that way. Only hope the release I've got doesn't hang me up
 WC> with a bunch of Netscape browser compatibility issues I
 WC> used to hear so much about.

 CA> Alan Zisman would know the answer to that question.

 WC> Quick question. My board and BIOS support 4 EIDE drives 2
 WC> masters with one slave each. Should upon adding a second
 WC> hard drive I move the CD-ROM from second master to slave
 WC> putting the slower hard drive as master am I correct in
 WC> assuming that IRQ 15 is shared by slave and master and only
 WC> the hexidecimal address on the CD driver in config.sys need
 WC> be changed for the CD drive to be propperly recognised?

 CA> Quick answer. I have no idea. I've maintained very vanilla
 CA> simple hardware for many years. I don't enjoy being told my
 CA> hardware is too old when I need to replace a cable, wire, clip,
 CA> or whatever so I just tend to leave it alone and not risk doing
 CA> any damage.

 I'll figure it out.
 Only time I mess with hardware is to expand capability
 and that's largely been the result of probable failure
 of my fast page mode RAM in the 486.
 I had primitive online access on the Pentium three hours after my
 extended RAM went belly up on the 486 though it took me
 a week to get it to where I'm happy with it.
 Currently 633 - 618K conventional memory available
 which is a bit more than I had before.
 This with all my sound card and CD drive drivers loaded in
 high memory.

 CA> AFAIK Windows will decide what IRQ is used where etc. I've not
 CA> really been paying attention to that information over the years.

 I only retreive it as needed, think I'm correct on this point
 however so no real worries.
 Thing is I pretty much try to know what I'm going to do
 will work before moving hardware, so far I've had huge success
 on this point.
 
 WC> My intent is to keep Win 3.1 on the smaller and slower
 WC> drive on the second IDE channel as master, slave the CD
 WC> drive to that and put Win 95 and Linux on the new big drive
 WC> on first IDE channel. Does this sound like a plan?

 CA> Well ... if I was going to multi-boot several OS, and if I had
 CA> a way to make backups of all of that, yes I guess your
 CA> arrangement makes sense?

 I'll have three O.S.'s on the system.

 CA> Alan Zisman mentioned recently that he was having problems with
 CA> MultiMail. He _later_ happened to mention he is using an iMAC
 CA> with a PC emulator program that executes W98SE which loads and
 CA> executes MultiMail within a dosbox (which is a W98SE
 CA> emulation). I wonder what could be causing his MM problems? :-)

 With that sort of kludge I'd not even venture a guess.
 
 CA> I'm guessing given enough time and money this is where you are
 CA> headed. LOL

I'm headed for Linux with Windows just being a interrum
handy O.S. 
I'll copy and manage backups on partitions well beyond
1,024 cyliders by fdisking with Linux and copying to those
partitions with Linux after mounting those partitions.
I'm beginning to get annoyed with browser limitations
with 3.1 or I'd be more agressive in attempting to get those
Asus video drivers to work. 
 
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