From: sk560 (sk560_at_netzero.net)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 13:32:36 EST
i've been using Win2k since beta3...... on 560E and now 760XD. no
problem at all with 560E..... but have some sound problem in 760XD.... maybe
mwave is the problem. real player and winamp will pause anytime when the os
is trying to make some 'noise' or when icq is trying to 'uh-oh'. i've
disabled all system and icq sounds.... didn't fix the problem.
overall, i'm very impress with win2k o thinkpads.
seekit
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Biggar" <Stuart.Biggar_at_opt-sci.arizona.edu>
To: <r.briganti_at_bellemead.com>
Cc: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: Opinion: Windows Millenium and Windows 2000 Pro
> I guess you have had better luck than I have.
>
> With my 770E (NT4 SP3 preload from IBM), I get various
> kinds of crashes:
>
> blue screens, probably due to faulty GPIB drivers from
> National Instruments (IEEE-488 adapters, both PCI and
> PCMCIA, to interface with HP and other instruments).
>
> video crashes resulting in a locked machine with screens
> of various colors (grey usually) or a repeating pattern
> of vertical bars. I have gotten this with various revs
> of the IBM 770E video driver for NT. It hasn't happened
> (yet) with the latest one I recently put in. It has
> happened with the previous 2 or 3 revs (which I was told
> to use by IBM support due to other problems). These bugs
> seem to be triggered by something in Adobe Acrobat 4 and
> some other applications (X-server for NT from Sun, etc).
> I have to resort to the recessed reset switch (the normal
> power switch is inop) to turn the machine off after a
> video crash. The machine is really locked up as I can't
> get even a ping response over the net when it crashes.
>
> Other blue screens which I haven't been able to trace.
>
> Errors with Excel (office 97 SP2) that cause the MS Visual
> C++ debugger to load the assembly code for Excel. Just
> what I want to see ...
>
> NT explorer crashes and restarts ...
>
> and so on. Note that Sun Solaris x86 running on the same
> machine doesn't crash so I don't have hardware problems.
> Solaris uses the same PCMCIA ethernet and modem cards as NT.
> The 770E has also been back to IBM for CPU card and inverter
> replacement - still have NT crashes (but not with Solaris).
> Machine has 224 MB of RAM and a 14 GB disk.
>
> I guess maybe it is time to try Win2K to see if it works
> better than NT4 for me.
>
> Stuart
>
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>
> >
> > I agree that W95 and its progeny are inherently unstable, when did NT 4
> > become an unstable O/S so that W2K could become "much more stable?" W2K
> > might be different, but my NT4 systems are quite stable. I've heard and
> > seen this comment before but don't understand its source other than M$
> > marketing.
> >
> > > than a "marketing ploy" W2K is a _major_ redesign of NT4 and a _much_
more
> > > stable OS. MS has hit one out of the park with W2K. Conversely, my
Beta of
> > > Millenium is simply terrible!
> >
> >
> >
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