Just to cap-off the story, after screwing with it for three days, I gave up 
on the idea of running Windows on it at all. Due to the proprietary nature of 
both Compaq and Microsoft, and their lack of support, the computer is 
presently incapable of running Windows in any satisfactory or useful way. 
This is planned obselesence at it's finest.
	Fortunately, it runs along quite happily on Linux! I now have Simpy MEPIS 
3.3.0 loaded into it, and it does everything I want it to do, making it well 
worth the $20 I invested in it.
	I've begun referring to Proprietary software as "Pig-in-a-Poke-ware", because 
you never quite know exactly what you're paying for!
	Thanks for tolerating my rants!
		Stu

On Thursday 07 July 2005 15:09, Alexander Henry wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 18:33:49 -0700, stu <wien33@cox.net> wrote:
> > 	Absolutely! The more I have to work with Windows, the more I appreciate
> > Linux! Sorry to create confusion, Irony is one of the lower forms of
> > humor!
> > 	Stu
>
> "To say the least, I am very disappointed [with Win98]"
>
> That addition probably would have prevented the confusion.
>
> It wasn't the English, just a mind hack.
> [http://safari.oreilly.com/JVXSL.asp?x=1&mode=section&sortKey=rank&sortOrd]
>
> If you don't include the right information at the right time, the brain
> will confabulate information where it never existed.  One big paragraph
> with a whole lot of resolution problems and NIC detection problems reminds
> the post-initiate Linux user of the time they had a six-hour deal with X11
> and another two-day deal with a winmodem.
>
> >> > 	I have an old Compaq with a Giga-Bite GA 5-smm MB, 256 Mb ram
> >> > running an AMD
> >> > K6-2 cpu I'm fixing up as a loaner for a friend. My friend prefers
> >> > Windows, but I decided it would be a good chance to expose him to some
> >> > Linux, so I decided to load Ubuntu on it as a second OS.
> >> > 	To say the least, I am very disappointed. After spending several
> >> > hours on the install, the video is stuck in 640x480, and the OS can't
> >> > even find the ethernet card. I took another hour to find the video and
> >> > LAN drivers I need to get it working properly, but the ones I've
> >> > downloaded so far don't work at all. After more fruitless searching,
> >>
> >> I'm
> >>
> >> > beginning to think the drivers I need for it simply don't exist. It's
> >> > rapidly becoming an exercise in frustration.
> >> > 	Fortunately, the Ubuntu partition booted up and ran without a flaw
> >> > from the very start, with full SVGA resolution, and it logs onto my
> >>
> >> home
> >>
> >> > network in a heartbeat. MEPIS, Puppy, and DSL ran just as well on it
> >> > earlier, so that in itself tells me the hardware is working OK.
> >> > 	After I finish with this last old box,  think I'll stick all my old
> >> > Windows
> >> > '98 and ME CDs in the toaster, and make expensive Christmas ornaments
> >>
> >> out
> >>
> >> > of them so I won't be tempted to try this again!
> >> > 	With tongue firmly in cheek,
> >> > 	Stu
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