Eben King wrote:
>
> I shy away from boards with onboard components, buying halfway decent
> PCI/AGP cards. I have onboard sound on my current board (Asus A7V333), but
> it didn't come _without_ sound, and I use a Soundblaster Live! anyhow.
> And never, ever buy a winmodem. You may save on the purchase, but you'll
> pay for it later.
>
Yeah, I ran into that on the other P2..it had a HSP winmodem in it,
musta have come that way because in my pre-high-speed days I usually
stuck with USRobotics stuff or Boca, I think it was called?....
Anyhow, when I tried to boot Knoppix that winmodem nearly locked up the
bus (I think) with an endless looping error of some sort, even after
the card was out and a cold boot back to windows....actually a few attempts
Oddly, what fixed it was another attempt at booting into Knoppix
live...withg the card pulled....
I never did figure out why Knoppix made it pass the bus scan and Windows
fell flat everytime I tried...after the Knoppix boot and shutdowmn..no
more problems with windows...:/ From what I've seen of the two OSes I
decided to chalk it up to Windows is crap...lol
oh out of curiosity sake I still run 98...I'd probably get better memory
mangement and better file sys upgrading, why bother? Seems most viruses
out the are written for the NT group...they can have em'...:)
I'm expecting about the same thing when I finaaly make Linux my primary
OS....
Well it's good to hear there's another ASUS board out there not causing
a fuss....perhaps the problems I was reading were frompeople like me not
being able to get around something relatively minor compartively...
Thanks! Off to hunting....
Chris
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