mick wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:38:44 +0100 Anthony Anson tony.anson@girolle.co.uk allegedly wrote:
He got a new one - all singing, all dancing.
It won't be long before he wants an upgrade...
Apple fanbois seem to be particularly prone to this problem.
Apple pie doesn't hang about either.
Don't know if I ever asked here, but my old box of tricks (full tower AMD 900, caddy with 4 trays - Lenny, early BeOS, Win 98SE, Win 2000) suddenly refused to play with Win 2000,
Worked perfectly AFAICT with Debian, BeOS and Win 98.
Tried to reinstall Win 2000, but it wouldn't do so. Got about halfway through the process then stubbornly refused to play any more. Borrowed an XP disc, and that wouldn't load, same symptoms as the 2000 CD. Put an old NT HDD in the BeOS tray, and that wouldn't work, so tried an old Win 98, and that was OK, as was the 98SE.
Tried to creep up on it by installing Win 95 and upgrading to 98, 98SE, Win 2000, but it got just so far, and spat 2000 out.
DOS 6.22 works, as does any flavour of Penguin AFAICT - but it won't have anything to do with NT-based stuff.
Now, I'd like it to work with XP or 2000, but I have misgivings about trying to run Virtual Box under Debian to host 2000, which I would guess, will fall over.
The motherboard looks OK - no corrosion or leaky electrolytics AFAICS, and I haven't guddled about in the BIOS for ages before it had its spat - and that only to change the boot order.
Anyone any thoughts? (Apart from buying Machine No 1...)