I cannot find a current thread with a similiar issue, so here goes mine:
By now, I am severly red-eyed and upset, after a few hundred hours of trying to get my office to a somewhat productive condition, I hope that you may keep that in mind as you send my to a flaming death of Brimstone for my strong opinions at this point :down:
model T2200: Changed only the HDD, and, consequently the OS was UPGRADED to 98SE+, now print jobs just go to the qeue and disappear while my HP DJ 3820 printer just sits there, like it's been traumatized into becoming a Mute, after 11 months of abuse from XP H.A. (the lexmark that came with the desktop broke down 2 months after purchasing)
Skip to the bottom if you can answer any of these questions for me, or if you are a die-hard XP fan, you should skip completely.
Thanx
I have tried other cables and port slots, by the way.
Can anyone tell me where windows 98 loses/stops transmittision ? ( I have a older lexmark z82 scanner/combo that does the same thing, unless installed to another desktop w/98SE, in my properties for DJ3820, the spool settings, under the details tab, has the option unavailable to "Print directly to printer", it is grayed out, wether I do fresh install with USB or ECP, still forced to spooly)
Can anyone tell me what make and who makes the motherboard in the T2200??
Can anyone tell me where I will find 98se drivers, or even another forum that can help with eMachines dekstops?
Here's the Story:
OK, my T2200 worked decent with XP for about 6 months. Then it statred acting up, just little things first. (somewhere around this time the speed decreased somewhat) I am an expert user, I am not talking about driver issues, because I update those if They act up. This machine is an office machine that is shared by 3-4 other people, including my 15 year-old son. so one day some applications won't work because of Dll errors, but the Dll's were there. well, LONG story short, I found some troubleshooting doc that suggested re-installing some of the system files (gdi, et c..), but I couldn't find them for download. then XP started acting really weird, and was constantly paging the hard drive. eventually it wouldn't boot because it couldn't read from some sectors of my WD hard drive. that probably explains the strange malfunctions and hang-ups. You can then imagine my frustration when, after 13 months, (my warranty was expired after 12), my 100 GB hard drive that was 50% full of my music, office docs, and videos, was corrupt. how could W. D. do this to me? I have 4 and 6 year old caviar drives that still work trouble-free. ( I think it's possible that windows is responsible, someone had set the Temp Internet files to take up some 20 GB as a maximum limit, I remember now the files wouldn't delete, I set a new 120 MB max, and tried using explorer, still they wouldn't delete, there was more than one directory of TIF's and maybe windows was causing "invalid segment data" failure because several files were occupying the same cluster, but it's a segment in NTFS, right? Nah, I will never know now) So I now have a SATA 80GB, with win98 (things go twice as fast now, including my time to dial-up, and IE because the TCP/IP system is so much better, and I am just starting to tweak the speed, and thankfully FileScavenger got back most of my data to the new drive). I cannot use the restore partition because I can't add my SATA Driver. I need the XP disk to re-install. Why would I willingly buy an OS that was peiced together by 6 year-olds working under the direction of Chimpanzees? I have proved now that XP is, by far, the most wasteful, the most inefficient, ill-conceived, useless excuse for an OS, when it is really just a patchwork of 98/ME/2000/NT, that seems to take the worst from each. (but, I have to give it to those 6 year olds, they did make the visual bars and borders look new and improved, " Wait, we could make the start button ... green ??!, well the hardware can't be upgraded without entirely re-installing, the hard drive isn't accessible unless It boots properly (no wonder you can't boot to dos shell), It runs all the services from all it's predecessor OS's ( 2 dozen of which are completely useless, and serve to take a little of your ram, and a lot of your performance), and if you have a bad system file, you can't install M$ XP service pack, which fixes the system files, but ... you said green ... ya ... Allright, let's just make it take 3 times as long to shutdown, and we'll forget calling it an upgrade, just an experiment that millions of people and billions of dollars are riding on." ) So, tired of running in my wheel and going nowhere, I opted for 98se, nothing loads that I don't use or need, We have an honest relationship so, If a peice of the puzzle goes missing or corrupted, It is readily available, and replaced, no hidden dependencies, or endless NT over-perfectionism, no babysitting, 98 has not one sneaky bone in it's codebody, it readily bears it's guts, laying submissively on it's back, for me to wade through. Thankfully the 98 drivers that viaarena DOES offer, have seemed to work ok but ... So I am ranting because I know that there is no one that can help me. My problem is that my HP Deskjet 3820, after endless hours of trying different drivers, (un)installation methods, and switching from USB to Parallel ECP with HP tech support, will not print !!
So I took the printer and the latest driver, that I keep trying, and had a nervous breakdown, when, on an old 98SE desktop I have, it instantly printed from USB, like it used to when I had XP Home Arrest. I have installed the latest USB driver from Via, but I NEED ONE FROM Emachines !!
Via is only responsible for the chipset, not the hopeless marriage of North and south bridges.
Emachines has worse support than the Virus I created accidently when I sneezed on my keyboard!!
Someone fell asleep at the wheel of emachines.com/support, and it crashed before it really ever went anywhere.
Can anyone tell me why windows can't print ? ( I have a older lexmark z82 scanner/combo that also works fine, unless installed to this MoBo)
Can anyone tell me what make and who makes the motherboard in the T2200??
Can anyone tell me where I will find 98se drivers, or even another forum that can help with eMachines dekstops?
other than printing, it works great, my keyboard is USB, and the savage8 Pro Intgrtd Video has never ran so fast.
I Thank You for any help :up:
After POST, I clock my 98SE boot time at around 12-15 seconds, 22 secs. tops only if it has to re-configure after a major update/installation.
XP has 0 advantages.
Sure, you can argue that tomorrows software will be XP only, and your right, 64-bit only, so if you don't have 64-bit you are facing obsceletion, just as I am.
By now, I am severly red-eyed and upset, after a few hundred hours of trying to get my office to a somewhat productive condition, I hope that you may keep that in mind as you send my to a flaming death of Brimstone for my strong opinions at this point :down:
model T2200: Changed only the HDD, and, consequently the OS was UPGRADED to 98SE+, now print jobs just go to the qeue and disappear while my HP DJ 3820 printer just sits there, like it's been traumatized into becoming a Mute, after 11 months of abuse from XP H.A. (the lexmark that came with the desktop broke down 2 months after purchasing) Skip to the bottom if you can answer any of these questions for me, or if you are a die-hard XP fan, you should skip completely.
Thanx
I have tried other cables and port slots, by the way.
Can anyone tell me where windows 98 loses/stops transmittision ? ( I have a older lexmark z82 scanner/combo that does the same thing, unless installed to another desktop w/98SE, in my properties for DJ3820, the spool settings, under the details tab, has the option unavailable to "Print directly to printer", it is grayed out, wether I do fresh install with USB or ECP, still forced to spooly)
Can anyone tell me what make and who makes the motherboard in the T2200??
Can anyone tell me where I will find 98se drivers, or even another forum that can help with eMachines dekstops?
Here's the Story:
OK, my T2200 worked decent with XP for about 6 months. Then it statred acting up, just little things first. (somewhere around this time the speed decreased somewhat) I am an expert user, I am not talking about driver issues, because I update those if They act up. This machine is an office machine that is shared by 3-4 other people, including my 15 year-old son. so one day some applications won't work because of Dll errors, but the Dll's were there. well, LONG story short, I found some troubleshooting doc that suggested re-installing some of the system files (gdi, et c..), but I couldn't find them for download. then XP started acting really weird, and was constantly paging the hard drive. eventually it wouldn't boot because it couldn't read from some sectors of my WD hard drive. that probably explains the strange malfunctions and hang-ups. You can then imagine my frustration when, after 13 months, (my warranty was expired after 12), my 100 GB hard drive that was 50% full of my music, office docs, and videos, was corrupt. how could W. D. do this to me? I have 4 and 6 year old caviar drives that still work trouble-free. ( I think it's possible that windows is responsible, someone had set the Temp Internet files to take up some 20 GB as a maximum limit, I remember now the files wouldn't delete, I set a new 120 MB max, and tried using explorer, still they wouldn't delete, there was more than one directory of TIF's and maybe windows was causing "invalid segment data" failure because several files were occupying the same cluster, but it's a segment in NTFS, right? Nah, I will never know now) So I now have a SATA 80GB, with win98 (things go twice as fast now, including my time to dial-up, and IE because the TCP/IP system is so much better, and I am just starting to tweak the speed, and thankfully FileScavenger got back most of my data to the new drive). I cannot use the restore partition because I can't add my SATA Driver. I need the XP disk to re-install. Why would I willingly buy an OS that was peiced together by 6 year-olds working under the direction of Chimpanzees? I have proved now that XP is, by far, the most wasteful, the most inefficient, ill-conceived, useless excuse for an OS, when it is really just a patchwork of 98/ME/2000/NT, that seems to take the worst from each. (but, I have to give it to those 6 year olds, they did make the visual bars and borders look new and improved, " Wait, we could make the start button ... green ??!, well the hardware can't be upgraded without entirely re-installing, the hard drive isn't accessible unless It boots properly (no wonder you can't boot to dos shell), It runs all the services from all it's predecessor OS's ( 2 dozen of which are completely useless, and serve to take a little of your ram, and a lot of your performance), and if you have a bad system file, you can't install M$ XP service pack, which fixes the system files, but ... you said green ... ya ... Allright, let's just make it take 3 times as long to shutdown, and we'll forget calling it an upgrade, just an experiment that millions of people and billions of dollars are riding on." ) So, tired of running in my wheel and going nowhere, I opted for 98se, nothing loads that I don't use or need, We have an honest relationship so, If a peice of the puzzle goes missing or corrupted, It is readily available, and replaced, no hidden dependencies, or endless NT over-perfectionism, no babysitting, 98 has not one sneaky bone in it's codebody, it readily bears it's guts, laying submissively on it's back, for me to wade through. Thankfully the 98 drivers that viaarena DOES offer, have seemed to work ok but ... So I am ranting because I know that there is no one that can help me. My problem is that my HP Deskjet 3820, after endless hours of trying different drivers, (un)installation methods, and switching from USB to Parallel ECP with HP tech support, will not print !!
So I took the printer and the latest driver, that I keep trying, and had a nervous breakdown, when, on an old 98SE desktop I have, it instantly printed from USB, like it used to when I had XP Home Arrest. I have installed the latest USB driver from Via, but I NEED ONE FROM Emachines !!
Via is only responsible for the chipset, not the hopeless marriage of North and south bridges.
Emachines has worse support than the Virus I created accidently when I sneezed on my keyboard!!
Someone fell asleep at the wheel of emachines.com/support, and it crashed before it really ever went anywhere.
Can anyone tell me why windows can't print ? ( I have a older lexmark z82 scanner/combo that also works fine, unless installed to this MoBo)
Can anyone tell me what make and who makes the motherboard in the T2200??
Can anyone tell me where I will find 98se drivers, or even another forum that can help with eMachines dekstops?
other than printing, it works great, my keyboard is USB, and the savage8 Pro Intgrtd Video has never ran so fast.
I Thank You for any help :up:
After POST, I clock my 98SE boot time at around 12-15 seconds, 22 secs. tops only if it has to re-configure after a major update/installation.
XP has 0 advantages.
Sure, you can argue that tomorrows software will be XP only, and your right, 64-bit only, so if you don't have 64-bit you are facing obsceletion, just as I am.
