Problems with my computer

[mild2002gt]

Okay, I barely got back online after trying to fix my computer for the past like 6+ hours(off and on a little, kinda had to eat). But i had to get on a different computer in the house b/c I couldn't get it fixed. I installed Quake 3 the other day and then my graphics got all screwed up immediately after installation. Then both my cd-roms won't start up. I see them on the test screen when you first boot iy up, but not when i get into Windows98. Then the hard drives(yeah, i've got 2) show errors. I mess around with it for a while, but can't fix anything. I can deal with the hard drive errors b/c it would still run and log on to the internet(DFWSTANGS). But i couldn't fix the graphics b/c i couldn't access the cd-rom's whether when i was in windows or in msdos. WTF???

So, to end all my problems, I decided to take out my master primary drive and try to load up a newer version of Windows(ME instead of 98). Well, everything seems ok until i finally finish installation and then windows me pops up. Well, my graphics are still screwed up. Luckily my cd-roms were accessible now. So I go through like 30 cd's and floppys to find the right drivers but barely find the right disk. So then I fix that problem and I'm thinking everything is of,
BUT NOOOOOO!!!!!

I can't log onto the internet b/c my network adapters either aren't installed or were done incorrectly. Or so i thought b/c that's the error i got. Well, i go through a bunch more cd's to find the right drivers but nothing. I even tried the disk that came with my PCI Linksys Ethernet card, BUT STILL NOTHING!!




................So does anyone have any ideas?? PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thiscat2000]

Reformat that junky @ss ME. That is the worst excuse for an operating system ever. All I ever had was problems with it. Get XP pro and call it a day. What are the specs on your computer?

Kyle

[DarkWolf]

[QUOTE=thiscat2000]Reformat that junky @ss ME. That is the worst excuse for an operating system ever. All I ever had was problems with it. Get XP pro and call it a day.[/QUOTE]
Agreed.

[mild2002gt]

[QUOTE=thiscat2000]Reformat that junky @ss ME. That is the worst excuse for an operating system ever. All I ever had was problems with it. Get XP pro and call it a day. What are the specs on your computer?

Kyle[/QUOTE]
yeah, i figured that out after i installed it and then looked at all the other compatible software(very, very little).
i ran all sorts of defrag's, scannings, virus checks with multiple programs.....but i'll try loading xp instead tonight (probably tomorrow b/c i don't do much friday night)
The hard drive is only a 19.x gb and only 640ram, i forgot all the other poor specs at the moment but i can check later when i get off of work.

[jazz_blue_20th]

[QUOTE=mild2002gt]yeah, i figured that out after i installed it and then looked at all the other compatible software(very, very little).
i ran all sorts of defrag's, scannings, virus checks with multiple programs.....but i'll try loading xp instead tonight (probably tomorrow b/c i don't do much friday night)
The hard drive is only a 19.x gb and only 640ram, i forgot all the other poor specs at the moment but i can check later when i get off of work.[/QUOTE]


HAHAHAHA! 640ram!!! :D when was that POS made 1980? :eek:

[Stang2be]

if its 640mb of ram if you cpu is 500-600mhz you should be fine. If the ram is really only 64 I'd get to 256 or 512.

[mild2002gt]

[QUOTE=Stang2be]if its 640mb of ram if you cpu is 500-600mhz you should be fine. If the ram is really only 64 I'd get to 256 or 512.[/QUOTE]
it is 640, and only a 800mhz


jazz_blue........STFU!!! So what if it's dated 198x or whenever?

[DarkWolf]

[QUOTE=jazz_blue_20th]HAHAHAHA! 640ram!!! :D when was that POS made 1980? :eek:[/QUOTE]
A little math, junior. 512+128 = 640 ... yes, there are combinations of ram possible besides 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, and 4096

I'd think the fact that he had 98 and ME on it, that you'd have understood 640ram was 640M, not 640K.

[mild2002gt]

[QUOTE=DarkWolf]A little math, junior. 512+128 = 640 ... yes, there are combinations of ram possible besides 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, and 4096

I'd think the fact that he had 98 and ME on it, that you'd have understood 640ram was 640M, not 640K.[/QUOTE]
it's 640MB RAM

[Cornholio]

This may be a little far fetched, but i play Quake 3 and on my old asus main board with a via chipset the chipset got real HOT. It was a recent board and I was running a 4800 nvidia 128mb video card with a AMD 2800. In short I got a new board with the nvidia chipset and they do just fine. Your problem could be that your older main boards chip set is just not enough. That would cause you to lose drives ie your CD roms and Hard disk. You might try to reset your bios an see what happends also, however if you like to play hot games like quake 3 save your self the trouble and build a better PC its not that hard to do and frys has a boat load of parts; just don't get advice from a sales person there :cool:

[mild2002gt]

[QUOTE=Cornholio]This may be a little far fetched, but i play Quake 3 and on my old asus main board with a via chipset the chipset got real HOT. It was a recent board and I was running a 4800 nvidia 128mb video card with a AMD 2800. In short I got a new board with the nvidia chipset and they do just fine. Your problem could be that your older main boards chip set is just not enough. That would cause you to lose drives ie your CD roms and Hard disk. You might try to reset your bios an see what happends also, however if you like to play hot games like quake 3 save your self the trouble and build a better PC its not that hard to do and frys has a boat load of parts; just don't get advice from a sales person there :cool:[/QUOTE]

i'm not sure if i still want to play it. It's not loaded anymore. As soon as I saw my graphics mess up, i uninstalled it(less than 10 minutes after installing it, including reboots).

I do want to get a better computer built but I'm tryin to focus putting $$ into one slow thing at a time, which is my car right now.
Yeah, i know not to get advice from the sales people b/c they all give me different answers from the exact same question.

...as far as the bios, how exactly can I reset it? b/c I ran a couple of diagnostics tests on the bios as well, but nothing appeared to be wrong.