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Offline motorollinTopic starter

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I hate computers
« on: December 28, 2005, 11:38:49 AM »
I went to PC World with my dad yesterday because he wanted to upgrade his PC. We bought a new motherboard, an Athlon 64 bit processor, and 1Gb of DDR400 RAM, a new PSU and a PCI Express graphics card. I've got the machine booting, but it's using the 32 bit version of Windows.

If I try to boot it using the XP 64 bit installation disc, the installer freezes saying "Setup is starting Windows".

I got a floppy disk with the nForce ATA drivers on it. I tried getting Windows Setup to load the driver, but got an error that the driver is not compatible with the 64 bit version of Windows.

So I have bought a motherboard that supports a 64 bit processor, but doesn't have any drivers for a 64 bit operating system?!?!?!

Computers are sh!t.

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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

Offline motorollinTopic starter

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Re: I hate computers
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2005, 12:19:19 PM »
My dad won't want Linux installed unfortunately. I tried to convince him to get a Mac Mini instead of upgrading his PC, but he wouldn't go for it :-( So what am I supposed to do until the driver support for XP x64 improves, just continue using the 32 bit version? Then what's the point of shelling out for a 64 bit processor???!!!

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Code: [Select]
10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: I hate computers
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2005, 12:26:27 PM »
Does 32 bit software run inside an emulator, like when you run old 16 bit software and it has to run inside NTVDM? Or does it run natively on the 64 bit processor?

The machine doesn't seem significantly faster with the new proc and RAM. I thought this was because I was using a 32bit OS on a 64bit proc.

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moto
Code: [Select]
10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: I hate computers
« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2005, 01:26:38 PM »
Thanks a lot guys. I think I'll reinstall the 32 bit version of XP and forget about 64 bit for now. To be honest, the machine will probably be a lot faster after I clear off all his crap and start fresh :roll:

I also posted about this on a Microsoft forum for Windows XP. Guess how many responses I have had? :-P

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Code: [Select]
10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: I hate computers
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2005, 04:34:05 PM »
No I'm sorry, you're all wrong. There is no solution to this problem. Computers are just crap.

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Code: [Select]
10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10