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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Porter who wrote (33595)	6/27/1998 10:20:00 PM
From: Dale J.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572359

Steve,install Windows 98 I installed WIndows 98, a couple days ago and it works great. Yesterday we had an electrical storm but I continued to use my PC anyway. I was reading an article in the Washington Post and I wanted to finish it. Well sure enough, we had a spike. The lights went out for a second and my PC rebooted. After the reboot my screen was stuck in 640x480 (standard VGA), I rebooted and I tried to reset the settings (I'm technically challenged, but not that bad), but it was stuck on VGA - 16 colors (don't ask me why but it was) so I thought I was SOL. Well eventually I clicked on help. A Windows 98 Wizard popped up, ran through some diagnostics and responded "There seems to be a problem with your video device driver. Do you want Windows 98 to fix it". Well I'm no dummy, so I clicked Yes. Windows 98 went out to the internet and downloaded some stuff (don't ask me what - probably a video driver), it installed it, configured my screen to 800x600 - 256 colors and rebooted. Now everything is working. For me, that alone made Windows 98 worth the upgrade. I hope Microslop continues to build that sort of intelligence into the O.S. Dale