i HATE windows!

Skynet · Post by **Skynet** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 4:35 am

Whats the deal with lame as all of these lame ass OS? every (EVERY) time i boot up windows 98/98SE/ME i have to reboot many times before it loads correctly! i thought that MAYBE it would be because of some corrupt software i have. but NO, when i have nothing installed booting up is a bitch. IF by chance i manage to boot up ok, im not out of the woods yet. NO WHERE NEAR IT! If my computer doesnt lockup on me when im on the net, it'll wait til im in the middle of a game. this really gets on my nerves because when im using any software (no matter what it be, besides games) this wont happen. its not that my pc is havin a hard time coping, its the fact the my hard drive is allergic to microsoft products. its a dual boot system coz i recently installed Linux. Id use that to surf or whatever but havent got my hardware setup yet.
virus scanners (no matter how new) dont find anything, scandisk doesnt do shit!
All id like is to find out why windows doesnt always fully load properly when booting up!
i need this fixed coz its costing me a fortune having to redial because my crap computer freezes while im online!

does any one know of some GOOD software that might be able to detect and physical probs with my hard disk?

Skynet · Post by **Skynet** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 4:37 am

i see i made a mistake there.
Whats the deal with all of these lame ass operating systems?

all your base are belong to us!
set us up the bomb!

jebeebus · Post by **jebeebus** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 4:46 am

Windows ME is crap, and 98 and 98SE are OK, but Windows 2000 ownz! I haven't had any problems with the OS... yet.

Skynet · Post by **Skynet** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 4:58 am

yeah, ive used 2000 at school (when i was there, am finished). I borrowed someones 2000 cd but i didnt like it coz some of the software i wanted to use didnt work. i resorted going back to 98 coz it came with my pc.

are there any good system check software that will find anything physically wrong with my HDD?

jebeebus · Post by **jebeebus** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 5:16 am

I dunno, but maybe if you just reformat, and clean install 98SE, it will fix a lot of problems... maybe.

reaper2k2 · Post by **reaper2k2** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 5:27 am

HEH! winxp fixes a lot of problems like its worth using thats the best fix winxp

Skynet · Post by **Skynet** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 5:37 am

yeah, but im... heres the thing:
ive formatted my hard drive more times that i can remember! its a good
thing i bought a burner a few yrs back, id be screwed if i didnt!

any help would be appreciated, but if no one can help... its ok

feels · Post by **feels** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 6:18 am

Could it possibly, probably, maybe be your hardware?

Skynet · Post by **Skynet** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 6:24 am

maybe, i havent dismissed that. but the thing is linux works fine and up until a few yrs back windows was (relatively) trouble free. but not 100% trouble free. i know norton has some hardware checkin thing but is
there a prog that will check for props with the actual HDD itself (ie anything wrong on the disc physically)

Egotistical EvilN · Post by **Egotistical EvilN** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 6:39 am

How much RAM/Processor/Video Card do you have?

Skynet · Post by **Skynet** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 6:52 am

well, im afraid to admit this but

a PII 300, 64MB, with a TNT2

its a lame system, but im more of a console gamer than pc.
ive always focused more attention on my consoles

Veggita2099 · Post by **Veggita2099** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 8:33 am

Yes Windows just sucks. You basically either have to deal with constant errors (Windows 9X), or your games not working (Windows 2000/XP).

Good ole Microsoft.

AmadeusZull · Post by **AmadeusZull** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 9:03 am

xp works fine 4 me. my only issue with xp is dvd/cd drive errors. its so buggy it is sickening.

sergey · Post by **sergey** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 9:58 am

hmm your system might not handle XP or win2k too well.. perhaps get a 256mb stick and install XP? it's supposed to have a compatibility mode that would run old applications which don't work in win2k. hasn't worked for me once though. also scandisk is supposed to detect hdd bad sectors I think.

AmadeusZull · Post by **AmadeusZull** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 10:10 am

pissed off dc owner wrote:well, im afraid to admit this but

a PII 300, 64MB, with a TNT2

its a lame system, but im more of a console gamer than pc.
ive always focused more attention on my consoles

look at his specs.

Post by **Roofus** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 11:43 am

XP does the same thing to me, sometimes it boots fine, most of the time, I have to reboot two or three (as many as 8!) times before it will load. I think it's my computer, though because I have two others with XP and it doesn't do that. Oh well, at least tax time is coming and my dad promised us a new computer.

Hawq · Post by **Hawq** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 2:52 pm

pissed off dc owner wrote:well, im afraid to admit this but

a PII 300, 64MB, with a TNT2

its a lame system, but im more of a console gamer than pc.
ive always focused more attention on my consoles

Whack in more memory, I used to run a P2 350, Voodoo3, 784Mb system with XP installed and it ran great (apart from needing crappy 3'rd party drivers for the Voodoo).

spaghetti · Post by **spaghetti** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 5:46 pm

Next time Windows is loading press F8 and select the boot with logging option. It will create a file called bootlog.txt and put it I think in your Windows folder or maybe just the root of your harddrive. Anyway, look this file over for failures etc. and then Google-Groups them to find out what they are and how you could fix it.

Ender · Post by **Ender** » Thu Jan 16, 2003 4:52 pm

f-ck it..........just use Linux. If you don't game on your PC, you shouldn't need Windoze anyway

Tall Israeli · Post by **Tall Israeli** » Thu Jan 16, 2003 6:06 pm

Anyone who has problems with an MS operating system, shouldn't be using a PC to begine with. The only acceptions is ME and if you are using ME, you shouldn't be aloud to live.