April 18,2003.

I recently upgraded my motherboard and AGP card.

Earlier I had a mobo with integrated graphics and therefore did not need a AGP card. Went and bought a Geforce2MX400(original Nvidia- a dell pull for 30 $). Little did I know that this mobo had a ISA slot instead of AGP.

So went back to the comp shop and got a new mobo. Came home and xp kept freezing up every 10 min. Really frustrating.

2 days I tried to figure out what the problem was. Went back to the comp shop and checked the cpu(fine), agp card(fine) so the mobo was faulty. The computer guy didn't agree and I had to show him some 5 times that xp was freezing even after using a diff agp card.

I also changed my heatsink(was rated for 750 Mhz and I have 850 Athlon) with one that is good till 1700 Athlon. Also returned 3 mice and got a new logitech optical USB. nice. Finally on Sat evening, the comp was working fine with a new mobo.

I used win 98 se for a few months here before upgrading to xp. I did not do a clean install and just chose the upgrade option. Probably not a good idea.

1)I installed IE 6.x in win 98se. The bug in this was that whenever I clicked on a link to open on a new page, the new page would turn out to be blank.(Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 281679). I searched for a solution high and low for 4 days before somebody in IRC pointed out that MS knowledge base article.

I finally did a clean install of xp with the new mobo. Now xp works like a charm.

The boot time is shorter by some 5-8 sec compared to my old mobo. Not sure if the clean install of xp is also responsible for this.

When xp was installed over 98, there was a problem with hibernate mode. When I selected hibernate mode and the put the comp to hibernation, then when I restarted the comp, it would log in to my account automatically. It would not show the login screen. It was irritating.

When I used netscape to view photos, saving them would take atleast 5 sec even after I downloaded them in win 98/win98-xp upgrade.
Now after the clean install of xp, it takes .5 sec to save the photos.

About the USB mouse, its got a ps/2 connector too. I removed the ps/2 connector and plugged the mouse in the USB port. xp would just hang. After a clean install of xp, USB works just fine.

One bad option in the new install of xp is Java. Since java is not loaded in IE, I had to d/l it seperately. And yahoo pool does'nt come up as good as it used to in 98. Just have to bear with it. Don't play it as much these days as I used to earlier.
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keywords- mozilla 1.3 , hang , xp , netscape , tabs

When I open some 8-10 mozilla windows and each window has about 10 tabs open in them, with each tab containing a photo, then Mozilla has a tendency to get stuck or hang. Im using Mozilla 1.3. I know that memory leakage is a problem with Mozilla but Netsape(Which is mozilla 1.something) runs better as in that it does hang even when you open 20 tabs each in a window and you have 10 windows open.

The problem now is that when I switched to Mozilla about 2 weeks back, I deleted the netscape installation files. This just blows man.
And those on broadband(unmetered), please give thanks to god
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Aug 20, 2003

Keywords- resize window , xp , windows
(I took this from a forum)
"follow these directions carefully. Close all IE windows that are open first. Save this page as a text.
Start IE, right click any link on a web page, and select Open in a New Window. Go back to the first IE window you opened and close it.
Return to the second window and manually drag it to fill the screen.
(Do not use the maximize button, for that's a temporary setting that will not be retained.)
Now press the Ctrl button, and close this second window, holding the Ctrl button depressed, using 'close' in the File menu (important!). "
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Oct 4, 2003
Keywords- microsoft fax, xp, installation, fax printer
If you install microsoft fax in xp and try to send a fax, you will find out that you need to have a fax printer installed. The instructions state -

"To add a local fax printer

1. Click Start, click Control Panel, click Printers and Other Hardware, and then click Printers and Faxes.
2. Click Install Local Fax Printer.

 Notes

• This option is available if Fax is already installed but you have deleted your local fax printer. "

What they did not state was you have to right click in the printers and faxes window. Took me a few hours to figure that out.