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To: RagTimeBand who wrote (4560)	1/1/1999 1:54:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

Why???? Sean

To: RagTimeBand who wrote (4560)	1/2/1999 4:33:00 AM
From: mowa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Emory, I am getting hands on experience presently. I have been a proponent of NT for over a year now (as far as MS OS's go), and am working toward NT5 on all my computers (6 desktops and one laptop )as the base OS. I believe, MS hopes & hypes aside, anyone who has the hardware ( and that may be a fairly sizeable "has", and perhaps not that much more sizeable than Win98 ) will / should want to RUN to NT5 as the only offering from MS that should realistically be considered as a operating platform. Especially for something as, dare I say it, "mission-critical" (<ggg> I love big consultant lingo ) as Day-trading. I am working with Beta2 and have one positive and one negative experience so far, both around the install. The positive is with the laptop (Micron Transport XKE) NT5 installed smoothly, found hardware well (support for 16 bit PCMCIA cards only, no 32bit yet). Unfortunately as my objective was a multi-boot situation with Linux and BE on multiple 'puters I wasn't giving the laptop install (as the part that was going well), my full attention. Rather, I was paying a great deal of attention to why NT5 would not install on my desktop (Supermicro P6DBU, PII350, V550 PCI, generic IDE 32 spin CD, Seagate Medalist pro 6g.). It would get through the initial file copy, find the IDE CD, but right before it is supposed to reboot into the GUI portion of the install it freezes, no keyboard, locked up. Tried pulling out all unnecessary hardware, no luck. Checked all BIOS settings, thoughts? Tried copying all cab files to HD, bypassing CD, same problem. Must have tried a couple of other things that aren't coming to mind now. Any thoughts would be appreciated, any questions will be answered. Multi-monitor support was mentioned on the start-up preview screen so I am hopeful that this feature is already in place. I will confirm this when I know. I will continue to post as I experience more. mowa