From: "Robert Comer" 

> Would W2K even run on such a box?  (I bought in in early '98 I think.)

Most likely, but there may be a driver problem if it's not standard stuff
from that time.

>So far
> I can't find memory for it, only have 64MB.

What is it?  (Make/model)  I'll see if I can find out more about it.

> Also, with W2K wouldn't I want NTFS?   Right now it's FAT32.

If all you're going to do is run one OS on it, yep, you'd want NTFS -- the
W2K offers to upgrade your drive to NTFS, no problem. If you have other
partitions, there's a convert program you run after you do the install.

- Bob Comer




"Ellen K"  wrote in message
news:909377.ae7c35{at}harborwebs.com...
> Would W2K even run on such a box?  (I bought in in early '98 I think.)  So
far
> I can't find memory for it, only have 64MB.
>
> Also, with W2K wouldn't I want NTFS?   Right now it's FAT32.
>
> > From: "Robert Comer" 
> > Why not upgrade to W2KPro or WinXP -- it wouldn't be the speediest box
in
> > the world, but it'd be more stable and run more of today's programming
> > stuff?
> > - Bob Comer
> > "Ellen K"  wrote in message
> > news:509347.ac8012{at}harborwebs.com...
> >> Urk.  If that's the case then the only thing I'd get with 98SE would be
> > the
> >> ability to run newer versions of stuff that don't run on 95 any more
(like
> > the
> >> Norton security stuff).
> >>
> >> Anything resembling power management is already disabled.
> >>
> >> How do you shut down to the "orange-on-black idiot
screen only"?
> >>
> >> What about Rnaapp?
> >>
> >> Maybe the original hard drive is starting to go bad... ?
> >>
> >> > From: "Frank Haber" 
> >> > Why do you think 98SE will help your shutdown problem? 
Win 95 did a
> > pretty
> >> > good job shutting down early APM systems.  98SE had notorious
problems
> > with
> >> > that, got two partially successful patches for it, has had whole
> > websites
> >> > written about its power problems.  There are still a bunch of
machines
> > out
> >> > there that won't shut down properly.
> >> > Have you considered just disabling power management,
shutting down to
> > the
> >> > orange-on-black idiot screen only, then leaning on the
power switch
for
> > five
> >> > seconds?

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