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**Valiant** · 07-10-2002, 04:07 PM

Okay guys... if you want to show you enjoy my company, and the occasional useful reply I might spit...nows the time to show it.

My mom's friend's computer is kinda F***ed right now... he's been paying the $50 a month waiting for his new DSL modem to show up... the one they gave him is a USB, and according to the one knowledgable AOL tech that modem has problems with the VIA USB chipset.... So he explains this to me... and I get the bright idea "HEY... you just need a USB card" So we go to bestbuy, pick up a 5 port USB2.0 card and I drop it in an open PCI slot in his machine. Of course it starts asking for drivers... I pop in the floppy... it asks for Windows... I run home doing atleast 50mph... I come back pop in the CD... it takes care of the drivers... after it restarts I get a stream of 10+ blue screens of death. I restart again... this time a windows protection error..... I pop in a boot disk, and it says that it can't read the hard drive... so he tells me he doesn't need anything from it....so I am going to throw ME on it... but I am going to need info on how to do the DSL setup... I can't find any info from AOL... it just wants to get me to subscribe.... So heres where you come in. I need as much info on what I got my self into as possible.... I don't know the make of the mobo.. the HD is a Maxtor 20 GB... I can get specific when I get home... it's an AMD k6-2 550Mhz... it has the crappiest PCI graphics card I've ever seen... The mouse is wireless, and the keyboard(good one is USB), but it didn't work on the install last time... (he was running a 200Mhz) so he also bought an IBM ps2 keyboard... he wants to use the $50 usb keyboard but only has 1 usb to ps2 adapter, and is using that for the mouse..... Comments please!!!

07-10-2002, 04:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
Valiant Tech Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Colorado Posts: 1,253 OS: Win XP Pro My System	I need a favor Okay guys... if you want to show you enjoy my company, and the occasional useful reply I might spit...nows the time to show it. My mom's friend's computer is kinda F**ed right now... he's been paying the $50 a month waiting for his new DSL modem to show up... the one they gave him is a USB, and according to the one knowledgable AOL tech that modem has problems with the VIA USB chipset.... So he explains this to me... and I get the bright idea "HEY... you just need a USB card" So we go to bestbuy, pick up a 5 port USB2.0 card and I drop it in an open PCI slot in his machine. Of course it starts asking for drivers... I pop in the floppy... it asks for Windows... I run home doing atleast 50mph... I come back pop in the CD... it takes care of the drivers... after it restarts I get a stream of 10+ blue screens of death. I restart again... this time a windows protection error..... I pop in a boot disk, and it says that it can't read the hard drive... so he tells me he doesn't need anything from it....so I am going to throw ME on it... but I am going to need info on how to do the DSL setup... I can't find any info from AOL... it just wants to get me to subscribe.... So heres where you come in. I need as much info on what I got my self into as possible.... I don't know the make of the mobo.. the HD is a Maxtor 20 GB... I can get specific when I get home... it's an AMD k6-2 550Mhz... it has the crappiest PCI graphics card I've ever seen... The mouse is wireless, and the keyboard(good one is USB), but it didn't work on the install last time... (he was running a 200Mhz) so he also bought an IBM ps2 keyboard... he wants to use the $50 usb keyboard but only has 1 usb to ps2 adapter, and is using that for the mouse..... Comments please!!! __________________ "Just because your paranoid doesn't mean THEY aren't out to get you!" (º·.¸(¨·.¸ ¸.·¨)¸.·º) «.·°·. Valiant .·°·.» (¸.·º(¸.·¨ *¨·.¸)º·.¸)