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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (6467)	2/20/1999 9:54:00 PM
From: Daniel Miller	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

My question is posted here... Can you please help.. Message 7941017

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (6467)	2/20/1999 11:06:00 PM
From: Alf	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Zeuspaul My old Compaq had video that was billed as 6 MB. In actuality it was a 2 MB 2d card and 4 MB RAM reserved for 3D applications. I do not recall what was listed in display properties..the best resolution I could get was based on 2 MB That's what my friend was telling me today .....something like windows only needs 2mb and rest of the ram was reserved for 3D Tell you the truth it was way over my head but he sure sounded convincing :-) I have had the resolution up to 1280*1024 on my monitors with no prob. Possible reasons for partitioning a drive. 1. DOS can only see 2 gig. So If you have an 8 gig drive and DOS you would need to divide into 2 gig partitions. 2. You are running NT and Win95 on the same drive. You may want a 2 gig or less FAT partition such that NT and Win95 can coexist in the first partition. Well today I think I learned why you guy have both NT and 95/98 would the biggest advantage to installing 95 on my machine simply be access to DOS ? We ......should say my buddy was going nuts today because he could not get in to DOS tried to hook up a portable Zip drive to my NT machine to transfer some files no luck tried a portable hardrive / no luck My version of LapLink would not load on NT tried FX / no luck He was not to happy today and do not think he will be switching to NT anytime soon. Could I put both NT and 95 on a 2 gig partition and then always just run NT as my main OS ? Would there be any conflicts ? That is starting to sink in as a good idea I think Thanks for the help Tim