RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Downgrade Nightmare....

You might try searching either Sony's web site, or the video chip
manufacturer's web site to find Win 98 drivers for your graphics chip set.
Barring that, you might look at something like www.drivers.com to see if
drivers are available.

From what I understand about Windows XP, there's a "telephone for your code"
to keep the OS running, which I find more than a little onerous. And, XP is
a derivative of NT, rather than of Windows 98, which means that a lot of
drivers won't work under it.

-- Jerry

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|From: audiomaker2000 [mailto:audiomaker@...]
|Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 9:23 AM
|To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
|Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Downgrade Nightmare....
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|Ok, while I'm trying to figure out the retrofit on my BP BOSS CNC,
|Windows has gotten in the way (as usual).
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|Believe it or not, this is what I've been through.
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|I usually run Mac's, but I purchased a PC (HP) for Cad/Cam. It is a
|800mhz Pavillion and came with Windows ME. All my buddies told me
|that "ME" is junk, so I upgraded to Win2kpro.
|Then I moved....
|Since then, I have gotten into this retrofittting. I bought the CNC,
|the Gecko's, and have demo's of various controller
|software...including Master5 which I would like to try first.
|I purchased a newer computer (1.5ghz Sony) so I could use the 800mhz
|HP as the machine controller. The Sony runs XP.
|Now M5 wont run on Win2k so I'm looking around for my Win ME discs
|and I cannot find them since the move. I do however find Win 98, so I
|install it. Well, it works, but Win 98 doesn't have the video adapter
|drivers for the HP (win 2000 did) and I can only get 640X480 which is
|awful when trying to see M5.
|I really want to get the software up and running before continuing
|with the retrofit, so now I'm in the position where I will have to go
|out and buy Win ME for the drivers (which is crud otherwise).
|Ok, so I'm ready to do this and Art posts that M5/XP/2000 is close at
|hand.....at least that's how I understood it.
|So what now? Do I go buy ME (which I already own), or wait for the
|2000/XP version of Master5 (I don't actually know when this will be
|available)?
|My new computer is XP and doesn't like 2000 for networking (or 98
|really) so I'd actually prefer to make the HP an XP machine.
|<sigh>
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|What should I do?
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|Sean (who is frazzled with installing and re-re-installing OS's)
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