#Win NT or Win 95
28-Aug-95 13:10:08
Sb: #187310-#Win NT or Win 95
Fm: Mike Kelley 71302,73
To: Mike Morgan 73121,3424
> Another suggestion would be to install WinNT 3.5x as a dual boot just to get
it under your bel
PMJI here, but I have a question about NT I hope some expert here can answer.
Because I'm going to run MAX, I have to go NT, but I have one very specific
piece of hardware (my FAST Video Machine board) that I can almost promise will
not work under NT (indeed, it wouldn't work under WFW, which is why I didn't
upgrade to that). Now, only when I actually do video editing do I need to
worry about the FAST, but if I can't run NT at all on the machine due to the
hardware (I've heard that in some cases it refuses to even install depending
upon hardware) that's a big problem.
Assuming I can get NT running, is it possible to dual boot so that I can run
Win 3.1 for my FAST board?
Is it possible to remove offending hardware, install NT, and then put that
hardware back? And if NT won't recognize my FAST board, does this make dual
booting moot (say that three times very fast)? In other words, if NT itself
can't recognize the hardware, would booting into Windows make any difference?
I realize that these may be questions that can't be answered by anyone, unless
I experiment empirically. But it would be nice to have some opinions before I
start my quest.