HDC,
Some time ago I bought my wife an LCD equipped Preario 3000 series computer. For backup, CPQ included a 'restore' CD which essentially reloads WIN95 and all the CPQ applications (phone,fax,etc), recreating the 'factory' desktop. Most of the consumer manufacturers seem to ship backup in this manner. So, I would be careful in how you install WIN98, in that unless you have backup diskettes, or there is some way to custom load applications off the backup CDROM, you may be out of luck. The only saving grace may be CPQ's WIN98 upgrade offer, they must have a way to custom install just the OS by going that route.
John
PS - This problem will surface if your machine dies and you need to reload everything. Since CPQ only provided the CD restore disk, there is no way for me to reload just parts of the desktop instead of the whole deal. You would need to call CPQ support to see if this could be done in some back door manner off the CD... |
