<OT> Re: can't load windoze

[Alma J Wetzker]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 09:08 -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> Net Llama! wrote:
>>> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>>> Tim Wunder wrote:
>>>>> On Wednesday 14 March 2007 7:25:19 am Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>>> <tony describes failure to see win98 system CD on Gigabyte MB>
>>>>>> Does anyone have a clue of where I should look?
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>> My guess is that you won't be able to install Win98 on that new equipment,
>>>>> after all, Win98 is nearly a 10 year old O/S.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tim
>>>> Hmm,.. an interesting thought.  The motherboard is a 2004-vintage board.
>>>>  I'll try to see if I can find a Win2000 or an XP disk and see if it
>>>> has the same problem.
>>>> At this point, I'm trying to find out why it won't even "see" the disk.
>>> Because its windows and it sucks?  Tony, can you take this sillyness to 
>>> general where it belongs?  If i wanted to read about lame windoze bugs, 
>>> I'd read my email at work.
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks, Lonnie.  Considering how grumpy you are now at half my age, I 
>> can only imagine how grumpy you're going to be when you get there.
> 
> Think old age will mellow him out? It sure did me. Woof! In spades.
> Besides, that was the same motherboard you had problems loading Linux on
> right? Loading Windoze would be an option to see just where the fault
> lies. Figure out one, you nail the other. 
> 
> When all else fails, trouble shoot with a shotgun. Ric

My favorite programming language is still solder.  Works great for
troubleshooting too.  :}

    -- Alma