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| Thread ID: 36552 | 2003-08-13 03:10:00 | old aptiva trickyness | toxicbass° (4399) | Press F1 |
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| 167344 | 2003-08-13 03:10:00 | <slightly long> help! i have an ibm aptiva 133mhz 16mb shared edo 1.2gb 28.8k modem mwave sound some sort of TEAC cdrom ,slow like 8x i dont have the serial,as im at the wrong house..but i can get it. its gone fine for years,probably 1995,and ive recovered it several times<perhaps 16times:P> . The problem is,last time win95 was about 500mb in size,so i decided to recover it ,again,and it said the same 'cannot read cdrom'while opening those cab files, it wasnt in the windows DIR ,so i didnt worry,just aborted that bit.<as usual> but anyway..i got to the registration for win95part,and ive lost my cdserial. so i got win95 from a mate,formatted c:,did scandisk.,it froze on the last 99% where there was about 4blocks of bad sectors (162,000bytes) i didnt worry,as its not critical :rolleyes: is it? So i carried on,chucked win95 on,it goes VERY FAST :-D YAY its faster than my 1.6ghz with xp >sp1 :P < BUT no drivers! the only thing that works is the cdrom which i had found on a site online,how to find them.. but no mwave sound,modem,or sis video. i think they are on the BLUE disk,but how can i use? there is a few mwave DIRS but cant get them to extract or anything...even if i copy them to a dir on my c:,and try the EXE looking files.. So what can i do? i like this pc with super fast win95b! 66mb win95 Dir! how can i find the drivers! i know mwave is strange and can be annoying,but all ibm couldve done is give me a few floppy disks with them on! at the ibm website it doesnt seem to be quite what i want..il found out the exact model number etc tonite.-because i cant just find out what sort of mwave sound device i have cos its not in the hardware things control panel..would it help to have a look at the card itself./? all i need it for is basic old games,slow net surfing and such i prefer it over my 1.6ghz im gona format that pc too now lol! <dualboot xp/ 95 hah> well thanks! long post but i had to explain all :) _mike |
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| 167345 | 2003-08-14 18:04:00 | ITS OKAY i used a password i saw on a website to copy some files of the recovery cd.. went online,mucked around with getn the drivers onto floppy<strange exe file> then eventualy after much mucking around>cos one of my floppys stuffed,and windows wouldnt let me resume adding drivers anymore<kept sayn to go to drivers tab,and update',so i just formated all over again :P soo its all over,just got to somehow get Video drivers so its no 16colour 640x480 :) the horror of the IBM is over..mmm fast pc! 3second shutdowns 25second start ups...cant wait to format the 1.6ghz :-D -go the luddites with win95 on 133mhz- |
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