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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (61797)	10/21/2001 8:42:01 AM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74651

Re: Usenet If you haven't figured it out yet, here's how the world now works: Plan A (Easy): Buy a new machine with XP preloaded which has a "Designed for Windows XP" logo on it. Plan B (Hard): Attempt to install XP on an old collection of parts one purchased years ago in a misguided attempt to "save money". My point in posting info about new machine pricing is that the aggressive pricing on new machines makes "Plan A" the obvious choice for the consumer. What you see on Usenet is a self-selected group of "Plan B" diehards who are still living in the "Heathkit" era of computing. Here's a representative sample of the sort of post you refer to which is titled "Blue screen and unstable XP": Hi. When I finished installing XP on my computer, it is VERY unstable. I cannot even install software on it before it craches into a blue screen. Usually the blue screen referes to the NTFS.SYS file . . . Some of my hardware is: 2*pentiumIII 550 processors 1 20 Gb Hard drive 1 45 Gb Hard drive 1 Matrox Millenium G400 display adapter 2 network card adapters. 384Mb Ram I have tried to remove everything except one hard drive and the Matrox card, and still it is very unstable. I even had a VERY hard time installing it. It came about 35-40 minutes into the installation, then it crashed, usually with a blue screen. Tried to format the drive both with FAT32 and NTFS, but nothing helped. As a last resort I went into the BIOS and chose Load BIOS Defaults, and after that I was able to install it, but it is still very unstable. There are currently no drivers for my display adapter available, so perhaps this can be the cause of all my trouble?