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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > But my ASUS is not acting erratic.  One day it
> > behaved properly all the time (except that the
> > hard drive apparently went bad in it) and the next
> > it behaved badly all the time.
>
> According to my dictionary, erratic means "Lacking
> consistency, regularity or uniformity.  Deviating
> from the customary course."  If your computer
> behaves one way on Monday and a different way on
> Tuesday, it is lacking consistency.  It is erratic.

On Monday it worked properly 100% of the time. On Tuesday it had the same 
boot problem 100% of the time.  So if you look at either day alone it is 
acting very regularly.  But this is not a mail list about dictionary 
definitions.  My board appears to have suddenly failed and I will have to 
find a workaround or yet another board for linux.

> > The DFI behaves properly 5/6 of the time
>
> Also erratic.

Definitely so.  Odd that it happened to three of the same model board - I 
had thought it might be specific to that model board somehow. But now my 
ASUS has the same problem (which it did noth ave before) and Sheldon's 
similar model does not.  Something probably broke, rather than being a 
design problem.  (Or it was designed such as to break easily).

> I would hate for people reading about your erratic
> computer to get the impression that BasicLinux is
> causing problems.  It isn't.  The mostly likely
> cause of your difficulties is flakey hardware.

Yes, I have hardware given to us because people could not get it to work 
properly, probably with Windows.  But half the time we were able to fix 
the problem - broken battery socket, bad floppy or CD-ROM or hard drive.
The other half of the time we had bad CMOS or other board problems.

Now we know why these three DFI's were given to us.  Maybe the ASUS really 
is erratic and it broke for them, worked for us, and broke again.
Anyway, I cannot use it with loadlin and DR-DOS or FreeDOS.

Basiclinux is working on hardware that other linuxes have failed on (often 
because they expected newer video, more RAM, 1.44 floppy disk, huge hard 
drive, etc.).

I am off to try Sheldon's idea of just changing 3 system files to Win98, 
and seeing if DR-DOS or FreeDOS defrag will still work.


> Cheers,
> Steven
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