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XP and a New Puter ... It's a Whole New World ...WOW
vanity | 01-01-02 | mercy

Posted on 01/01/2002 4:11:47 PM PST by mercy

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To: ironman
If it can't find the hard drive at all, my idea wouldn't do you any good - I was thinking boot into DOS & then just copy the files.
201 posted on 01/06/2002 7:48:03 AM PST by Amelia
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To: Amelia
Did you ever get that network going? I had the same situation as you. A new Windows XP machine and a Win98 machine. My XP came with a NIC already installed and I bought one for the Win98 machine and installed it manually. I then ran cables from each computer to a five-port hub.

I was up and running in five minutes using the XP networking wizard. XP's wizard made a floppy for me to install on the Win98 machine. I ensured that both computers had the same workgroup name and activated FILE AND PRINT SHARING on both.

I was able to share out the hard drive and ZIP drive on the old computer and map them to the XP computer. I also shared my printer to the Win98 computer as well as the Internet connection. It was so easy that I am kicking myself for not doing it earlier because I used to have to wait hours for my kids to get offline and vice versa. Now we can both be on at once!

One thing I didn't see mentioned that you might have forgotten. When you installed the NIC card on the Win98 computer, it comes with a cable that you are supposed to attach to the motherboard from the NIC. Did you do that?

202 posted on 01/06/2002 7:56:08 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76
I'm thinking now it must be something in the house wiring, but I'm not sure where. When I brought the 98 computer downstairs & cabled both computers directly to the hub, it worked beautifully. I can read all the files on the 98 computer from the XP, and the 98 accesses the internet.

The other thing I did was plug the 98 into a different connector in the hub - my cousin says he uses the same hub but it has at least one bad connector, so that could have been it as well -- but the hub was showing connections to both computers all along?

Now I guess just a matter of narrowing down where the house wiring needs help?

203 posted on 01/06/2002 8:10:08 AM PST by Amelia
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To: SamAdams76
Thank you.
204 posted on 01/06/2002 9:12:16 AM PST by Rowdee
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To: ironman
Get a good hard drive utility program. If there's a physical drive in there it ought to see it. Partition commander helped me with mine.
205 posted on 01/06/2002 10:07:56 AM PST by Bogey78O
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To: SamAdams76
That's a WON cable. You only need that installed if you need to access and turn the computer on from the network. Some motherboards aren't designed for that so the cable cn't be used.
206 posted on 01/06/2002 10:09:44 AM PST by Bogey78O
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To: Amelia
Most bad spot are in the splice. There is a tool to test network connections. It'll tell you if you have good splices. Just recheck it and make sure the pin setup is correct.
207 posted on 01/06/2002 10:13:20 AM PST by Bogey78O
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To: mercy, all
Is there such a thing as a no-monthly-charge ISP? I want to get off of Compuserve. I saw K-mart had "free internet access" disc available a year or so ago, but never tried it.
208 posted on 01/06/2002 10:38:22 AM PST by CWRWinger
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To: CWRWinger
There are, or used to be, 'free' ISPs but you had to endure adds adds adds. I've heard of $10 per month ones but they are probably add choked as well. I pay $20 bucks a month for a 28.8 dialup and that's all the local Verizon lines will handle anyway. No adds. Pretty reliable. Look in your yellow pages.
209 posted on 01/06/2002 10:55:44 AM PST by mercy
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To: mercy
bttt
210 posted on 01/06/2002 11:03:22 AM PST by Texas Tea
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To: mercy
How can your lines handle only 28.8? You mean you local dial-up server right? The phone standard is 56k. You can only get up to 53k due to regulations on it though.
211 posted on 01/06/2002 11:04:56 AM PST by Bogey78O
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To: Bogey78O
Oh brother you should 'try' living in rural Texas and just see what phone service is like. Sucks is too nice a word. Our phone company does not even gaurantee a digital capable line. Voice only. I'm lucky enough to get some digital capacity. I can occaisionally get up to 8k or so transfer rates. But that only holds so long as the local population does not exceed the number of lines we now have. When that happens they start doubling them up with carrier setups (whatever that is) and we will get no dial up ability at all. I'm forty whole miles from austin.
212 posted on 01/06/2002 11:11:52 AM PST by mercy
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To: mercy
The carrier setup you're talking about is a called a DAML. I've put a few up. It basically merges two dial tones together over a copper pair. But still, copper analog from the switch can handle 56k connections. There may have been an earlier switch with lower capabilities but if that's the case you're below the common standard.

Blame the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Phone companies don't profit off of upgrading their lines. So they don't bother to.

213 posted on 01/06/2002 11:31:28 AM PST by Bogey78O
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To: Amelia
"So why can't my computers see each other?"

If you mean see each other via TCP/IP ping, it would seem impossible to route outbound via a common router if they were'nt able. I suspect you mean in the Network Neighborhood -- and in that case you need to load the NetBEUI protocol, and have both computers join the same workgroup. You can config that via a right click on the network neighborhood. Check the help files for more info.

214 posted on 01/06/2002 2:31:02 PM PST by gcraig
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To: Bogey78O; all
I tell you, having FR is better than having technical support! You guys are really great!
215 posted on 01/06/2002 5:23:12 PM PST by Amelia
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To: CrossCheck
Windows ME needs to download the security patch as well.
216 posted on 01/06/2002 5:29:06 PM PST by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: mercy
Been hearing not so good things about Dell

Am curious. What have you been hearing about Dell?

217 posted on 01/06/2002 5:55:42 PM PST by fso301
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To: fso301
Customer service means hours on the phone. Sending the box in for repair means weeks without a computer but it takes lots of time on the phone before they will even advise you to send it in. They're putting cheap parts in them.

I don't know the full veracity of all this but I got a very good warantee from CompUSA that means a new machine if just about any hardware component goes out on this sony. If I have a minor problem that is better to just have fixed, like a OS reinstall I can take it in and get it done. With Dell there is no where to take it. Nowhere. You just have to mail it in. What a pain. I had a dell before because they had a store in Austin. They closed it. They lost me. The VIAO has firewire and usb ports all over it, a disc burner and comes with some pretty nice pic and vid software.

218 posted on 01/06/2002 6:35:24 PM PST by mercy
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To: WileyCoyote22
XP is great, Macs are no longer any more reliable than a Windows box.

Sorry, but that statement made the BS buzzer go off! Tomorrow you will have one more reason to drool over Apple........

219 posted on 01/06/2002 7:20:20 PM PST by CheneyChick
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