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Originally posted by GIT-R-DONE:
Originally posted by CSVT1214:
BTW, using a cable modem via USB interface is complete garbage. I find computers having issues with disconnects, slow response, etc. all the time using USB. Using USB simulates a ethernet card in Windows. So your modem is now performing 2 functions.
Do yourself a huge favor and get a ethernet card if you do not have one already, and connect the modem through ethernet. It is a much more reliable and stable connection. After all, that is what it is made for. Leave USB for keyboards, mice, cameras, scanners, printers, etc.
that would be a NIC card, correct? I was thinkin about going out and buying one today, and installing it, in hopes it would be plug and play on my computer.
Yes, ethernet is also known as a NIC (Network Interface Card). Just understand that any new NIC from the store will require driver installation for Windows 98. Which means you still have to use your CD-ROM drive. So yes, it is Plug and Play, but with drivers needed.
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Originally posted by hellahydrox:
In the meantime... use the RJ-45 jack for the cable modem.
WTF? 
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Originally posted by GIT-R-DONE:
i have 98. i know when i installed it on my last computer, and tried to install the software that came with it, the computer was dead for months. its a phillips cd-rw drive, and it was a compac computer. this computer that im using now, which is my parents is a HP. So i can leave the old drive in and just make the new one the primary and the other the slave? or do i have that backwards?
The only way the computer could have died, is if you bumped another piece of hardware out of place. Such as memory (which is very close to the CD drives, usually), video card, power connection, or any other key piece of hardware. Or bumping the part killed it, but rarely will ever happen.
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alright, so the new(old now) drive that i bought logn time agao was a philips cdrw 2400 series. its an internal drive. 24x12x40. and the stats on it require:
pentium 2, 300mhz(or higher) or equivalent
windows 95,98, nt 4.0
minimum 55mb free hard drive space(90mb recommended)
minimum 32mnb RAM
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i dont know what happened, but i know when i tried to install the software for the burner, it froze, and i could never get it to load again.
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Originally posted by GIT-R-DONE:
alright, so the new(old now) drive that i bought logn time agao was a philips cdrw 2400 series. its an internal drive. 24x12x40. and the stats on it require:
pentium 2, 300mhz(or higher) or equivalent
windows 95,98, nt 4.0
minimum 55mb free hard drive space(90mb recommended)
minimum 32mnb RAM
Not sure if you are just stating the requirements or asking about them, but if you are asking, I can't answer anything by knowing nothing other than the fact that you own a HP.
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HP Vectra XE310
900 mhz
256mb RAM
32 bit
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ok so i swapped out the drive, with my other one, and still does the same thing. didnt install anything, just straight swapped. matched the setting from the old to the new, and same problem. anymore help?
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yeah.. Originally posted by Ray:
Reload the drivers for the ROM
aight, I'm out for a while.. going out with the wife for the night!
Ray
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Originally posted by Kremitthefrog:
I like to wear dresses and use binoculars to watch grandmas across the street.
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the drivers for the rom, are on a cd, which makes them useless when i cant use a cd-rom drive. i hate this thing, im about to put a m80 in its exhaust fan!!!!
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