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[swift240]

Well aint that just great, I puty Windows XP home edtition on my PC only to find I can no longer put posts in AMiga Forum no matter what I do I had all the latest patches installed, so I took it off and put on Windows 2000 Pro instead and yipppeeeeeee I can post.
So long XP, hello Win2000.


Mike....
Did any one else ever have that problem?

[adolescent]

Works fine here. Must be PEBCAK.

[kd7ota]

I really dont know why you were not able to post. But I know for sure that it was a fatal mistake to go with Windows 2000. Don't see how it is even great to use. It has too many USB problems even with the latest service pack. The worst part is when I play a few games, and it suddenly locks up. The blue screen of death comes up for 1/2 a second and your computer mysteriously resets. Guess it turns out to be a USB -related problem. But for sure, Windows XP is newer then Win2k was, so therefore it has to be better. :-D

P.S.No flame wars, just putting in my input. :-)

[Argo]

What were the errors you were getting?

[Ilwrath]

Works fine here. Must be PEBCAK.

Agreed. :-D

Though, potentially, if something was installed on IE, such that cookies were disabled, it could cause the problem. Fact is, we really don't have enough information.

[Waccoon]

I have Win2K, and my dad has XP. My machine seems much more stable than his.

USB sucks on all vesions of Windows. It could just be a problem with the drivers you have for your motherboard. Drivers run in kernel mode and can easily cause the Blue Screen no matter what Microsoft does. I seriously think many crashes are unfairly blamed on Windows when drivers are the culprit (nVidia comes to mind. Their newest drivers SUCK!)

[cecilia]

Windows XP is newer then Win2k was, so therefore it has to be better.

[weirdami]

Windows XP is newer then Win2k was, so therefore it has to be better.

Finally! Someone who thinks that old people are no good.

[Kent]

Waccoon wrote:
I have Win2K, and my dad has XP. My machine seems much more stable than his.

That's because Microsoft couldn't figure how to write a stable OS. They contracted VAX to bring NT4 up to the same level as Windows95. Later, Microsoft put their mits on and pulled and yanked at the sources. When they had a somewhat stable system they slapped "WindowsXP" on it and sold it.

[swift240]

All I know is that I have used Win2000 for well over a year and never had a USB problem or any other type of problem thats with all the IE 6.0 and Windows 2000 patches installed, but as soon as I tried Win XP home edition with all the IE6.0 and XP pathes I could not post on here.
No idea why it just happens that way.
So I am back on Win2000 now I dont have any problems.

Mike....

I know of other people who use XP that have more problems that Win2000.
My PC is Pentium 4 1.9gig CPU, 256 DDR ram, NVidia graphics 32meg, mobo MSI 6547 ver 1.0

[Holley]

Ummm, all things being equal XP and 2000 should be just as stable as each other. I've had 2K server stay up and serve well over 200 clients for several months on end, but it had to be set up right (bear in mind 2K server is mostly just 2K with a 'server' sticker on the box ;-)). XP can be equally stable, but boots a whole lot quicker!

I'm posting this on my XP machine, which runs a half dozen different database systems for testing purposes, several patches to make Windows look better, and loads of network admin tools, and it hasn't blue-screened on me in 23 months of use. I'm using the same drivers that I started out with, and have used a USB scanner, joypad, mouse, memory stick and CD Writer.

I hate using Windows, but the reliability problems of Windows98 arn't an issue any more - when it's done right! Windows95 used to run nicely if you re-installed it every 6 months ...

[kd7ota]

@cecilia + weirdami

I didnt know that was a funny comment. But really you can laugh all you want.


@others.

It may have been some weird driver problem. I couldnt get rid of it but did go away when i went with WinXP. But it was the IRQ_USB_Lessthan or some error message like that. Its been forever since I got that error message.

[Robbie]

do you get the error 'cannot insert forum post'? because I was getting that all the time too and I couldn't post on my windows xp machine. did a bit of searching around though and found it was my firewall. turned it off and it worked fine, a better way is to just go into the settings on your firewall and permit stuff from amiga.org. then it works again

[Doobrey]

Waccoon wrote:
I seriously think many crashes are unfairly blamed on Windows when drivers are the culprit (nVidia comes to mind. Their newest drivers SUCK!)

Yup, I`m with you on that one..especially the nVidia bit.
Last week I updated the drivers for my GeForce card. Since then I`ve had no end of random resets and BSODs..
Then I noticed my gfx card was so hot, I couldn`t touch it for even a second. I checked the speed settings of the drivers and found the newer drivers had doubled the standard memory clock of the card
Still can`t believe the card survived being overclocked that much.
I suppose this also goes to disprove the earlier comment that because a piece of software is newer it must be better.

[Argo]

The FireWall could be blocking cookies. What firewall(s) are people using?