GOOD NEWS! Both computers are now fully functional again! After trying what tech support suggested for Annie’s video card (it didn’t work), I was telling Urn about what happened. When he heard that the computer appeared to be fully functional, just not sending anything to the monitor, he asked why didn’t I try doing it blind? All I had to do was run a flash utility from a DOS prompt, so it should be easy, as long as I know exactly what to type when. So I booted up the computer with a DOS disk, ran the program, and I didn’t think it worked, because the monitor didn’t turn on. But when I rebooted, to check, the monitor came on! Everything works again! I even got excited and checked my network settings and discovered that the reason my computers couldn’t see anything on the network was because I had them in workgroup “VALHALLA,” and they won’t work in anything but workgroup “WORKGROUP.” Stupid windows. “Here’s a neat way to customize your computer, but don’t try to use it! It won’t work!”
Anyway, I’m happy, and everything works except the stuff that hasn’t worked the whole time.
Also, I downloaded a couple of alternate shells that I’m checking out. Cloud9ine, a relatively new shell, and litestep, and old favorite, which seems less buggy than last time I goofed around with it.
I’m going to do a restore from backup in a few minutes to get some of my graphics back, so I can do hammerspace again, and keep working on my redesign for Studio Fojar.
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January 8th, 2001 at 9:11 pm
If you are networking Win2K and 98, they don’t necessarily need to be in the workgroup "workgroup". They do have to be a member of whatever you name the workgroup, have the file and print sharing installed, and on the Win2k machine you have to have the "Enable NETBIOS blah blah" box checked, and you should probably give them both static ips in the home-networking range which is from 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255. Just make sure they have the same subnet. Also ipx/spx should be installed.
January 8th, 2001 at 10:20 pm
the problem is that the LAN I’m on has DHCP, so I can’t set much stuff. I have everything else you spoke of set up. This network used to work just fine, until Christmas, when it suddenly stopped working. All I know is when I changed both machines to WORKGROUP, it INSTANTLY worked. When I tried switching them back to VALHALLA, or any other custom workgroup name, they couldn’t find the network. *shrugs* screwy, huh?Good to see you, man! I didn’t know you checked KMorg!
January 9th, 2001 at 7:09 am