Two Gripes!!

[John Sayers]

Over the weekend I have been updating my puter and rigging my old one for a friend. I've bought a new tower with 5 front slots. New 100ATA motherboard, new IDE 8x4x32 burner and a 50x CDROM. I've a new 20gig D rive which I've mounted in a removable cartridge (neat idea). I revamped my old puter for my mate and we are now both up and going.

Now my Gripes!!

1) The flat cables on the drives is a pain in the ass. They get into a mess no matter what size your tower and they are really quite delicate...there has gotta be a better way.

2) Why the hell do you have to reboot with every installation, change, whatever. I got so sick of the reboots...is this really necessary??

cheers
john

 

[Emeric]

1. Yes there should be a better way, but there isn't. Nylon tie straps can neaten things up very much.

2. Yes.

 

[Slackmaster2K]

1. Some companies make ribbon cables that are all wrapped up. Much smaller and less delicate. I agree with emeric, but I prefer rubber bands. There's nothing worse than going to rip into your computer only to come across a nylon strap....what exactly happens to scissors? I can never find mine.

2. With Windows9x, the answer is yes. Win2k is a little better. It'll install network cards and shit without rebooting...plus you can stop and start devices without rebooting. Less reboots with software installs too...but really it's unpredictable. So yeah, reboots are necessary. If your stuck with Windows 9x then maybe switching to ME would help with your reboot time...I've seen it come up as fast as 5-10 seconds.

These problems should be coming up every day though

Slackmaster 2000

 

[DS_Sultan]

Welcome to PC hardware hell my friend.....hehehe

 

[John Sayers]

Thanks DS_Sultan - it was quite an experience,I had to learn about FDisk and Formatting drives etc, my old puter was the problem in the end. I had had my 866 in it and I suddenly realised that I hadn't changed the Bios and it was still clocking the PII 350 at 866!!

It was good fun and well worth the experience.

There's a saying here that with our climate you are going to mow lawns every week so you'd better learn how to fix your mower

cheers
John