Upgrade WINXP is hard work

Microsoft's WINXP ads are flying all over the sky. It seems that not using WINXP for a time is a sinner of the century - but, in order to use this monster, is our computer suffering this "upgrade pain"? According to the experience of a period of time, we have to regret that although WINXP promotion is more stable and easy to use than WIN98 and WIN2000, in general, I still think that WINXP is more like WINME, just like WINME speed is not WIN98 fast, stable and not as good. Like WIN2000, WINXP is also much larger than WIN2000, but there is no WIN2000 to stabilize. At best, the boot speed is much faster than WIN2000, but for many hardware compatibility, it is not as good as its own. Do not believe? Let's take a look.

I can't use the small Mongolian COM interface tablet

The computer is configured as the elite K7S5A (SIS730 chip), Duron 950, Western Digital 40G hard drive, plus a small Mongolian COM port tablet, When using WIN98 and WIN2000, it works fine, but after upgrading to WINXP, its COM port can't recognize the existence of a tablet. Whether it is plugged in the tablet before and after installing its small Mongolian handwriting system software, after restarting the computer, it prompts “there is no tablet existence”. In order to solve this problem, the motherboard is replaced with the three emperor PS62M (SIS740 chip), the symptoms remain. . I don't know if there is a COM port conflict between WINXP and the SIS chipset. Under normal circumstances, the tablet can be used by default before the driver is installed. This is true under the WIN98 and WIN2000 operating systems. Under the WINXP operating system, it will not work at all.

Second, must update the driver to use the small Mongolian USB interface tablet

In order to solve this problem, find a USB interface tablet - Lenovo USB random tablet, actually It is the Xiaomeng handwriting board, and its driver is also using the Xiaomeng handwriting system. However, after installing the original driver that comes with the tablet, restart the computer and there is an illegal error "Debug Error" when calling this tablet. Anyone familiar with WINXP knows that this is actually not successful. The small Mongolian handwriting system included with the original disk is version 4.0. It is estimated to be the version below WIN2000. You can only download a small Mongolian handwriting system 5.0 on the website of Mengyu, reinstall it, and solve the problem, but this download file is up to 60MB! If you are a dial-up user, you have to spend a lot of money in order to use this tablet under WINXP.

However, this small Mongolian handwriting system 5.0 does not solve the problem that the CON interface tablet cannot be used. I unplugged the USB tablet and plugged in the COM interface tablet, either using the Xiaomeng Handwriting System 5.0 driver, or the Xiaomeng handwriting system 5.0 and plugging in the COM interface tablet and then installing the Xiaomeng handwriting system. 5.0, can not be used.

Third, the Wansheng camera can not be used normally

Another SIS735 chip elite K7S5A motherboard, Duron 1G CPU, Western Digital 40G hard drive, dual-sensitive speed with 3100 (DDR) graphics card, in advance Install WINXP and use it normally. Installed a Wansheng camera in a few days, with an indicator of 300,000 pixels and an enhanced effect of 1024×728. After the driver is installed, the black and white lens switches back and forth every 3 seconds during the recording process, resulting in the camera being unable to perform. I started to suspect that it was a motherboard problem, but after replacing an original INTEL camera (without any drivers, WINXP comes with it), troubleshooting. Due to the inability to find the dedicated WIN WIND driver for the Wansheng camera, I finally reinstalled WIN98 and the fault was eliminated again! In order to verify whether the compatibility between the Maxim camera and the SIS735 chipset under WINXP, install this Maxim camera on the ASUS STUL-C (815EPT) motherboard, after the first installation, use normal, but install its CD After the "sound and color" that comes with it, restarting the computer will not enter the system normally. Even if you delete "sound and color", you cannot start the computer normally until you delete the driver of the Maxim camera. Can be seen between the camera and WINXP.

Fourth, shut down and restart MODEM

This is even more strange, because of a MODEM, WINXP "shutdown" has always become a "restart"! This is a problem with the VIA chipset. The specific configuration is: Shuttle AV41 motherboard, Pentium 4 1.6G, 128 memory, Seagate 40G hard drive, use WIN98 at the beginning, use normal, and later upgrade to WINXP, the result is that "shutdown" has always become "re- The phenomenon of "starting". Start with the operating system, start "Advanced Power Management", the fault remains; then cancel the "hibernation" and so on, the fault remains; then in the BIOS, the motherboard automatically disables the MODEM interface, and all the boot options for the MODEM Cancellation, the fault remains; after replacing the motherboard, graphics card, and MODEM with the "alternative method", the fault remains; until the fault is removed after the MODEM is unplugged. So replace the other models MODEM, the strange thing is that for this VIA266 chip motherboard, the use of high-end INTEL dual-chip hard cat, ESS soft cat, ALI soft cat, etc. can not solve this problem, but instead use a brand machine disassemble The ROCKWELL 6793 soft cat can be shut down normally!

Five, to update the driver CMI8738 and innovative sound card

Another upgrade WINXP, an ASUS 815EP (does not support the Sai Yang 3 series) motherboard, Sai Yang 2 700, diamond 20G hard drive After working with WINXP, it works fine, but after installing ASUS self-driven CMI8738 sound card driver, it can't enter the system. Even if you press F8 to enter "safe mode", it will not help (basically all computers have problems to enter "safe mode", and this ASUS will not work), can not delete their sound card driver, try to select "last time normal configuration" can not Enter the system again. I have no choice but to reinstall WINXP. After downloading the CMI8738 WINXP-certified driver, it can be used normally. The original ASUS sound card driver has not been WINXP-certified - but installed so many WINXP-certified drivers and software, there has never been such a serious problem. . For the innovative sound card, everyone knows that if you don't install the latest driver specifically for WINXP, you can't use it at all, and the driver is very impressive.

Sixth, the "Tianzheng Architecture" design software frequently violated

If you are engaged in architectural design, you know that "Tianzheng Architecture" is the industry standard design software, with AUTOCAD R14, is the building Designed weapon. However, the "Tianzheng Building" that is normally used under WIN98 is not well used under WINXP. It is often the case that the command cannot be called, even if the reload is deleted. It turns out that the "Tianzheng Architecture" version 2.0 has been released for so long, and the support for WIN98 is still very good, but for WINXP, even if "WIN98 compatible mode" is selected to run, there is still such a problem. We had to go back to use under WIN98.