Hi BlackAdder,
I got the PC back last Thursday - I wish it had gone blown up on its way here.
The PC could not even find the mouse driver; then half-way through the auto-loading of my printer software CDROM up pops a msg saying "the volume selected had already files on it, next time check first to see if it can be changed.............press any key to continue" (bloody cheek !)
I did, and the screen went black. Nowght happened. Frozen. Pulled the plug out and started again. Second time lucky.
A sod of a time loading my ISP Dial Up configs.
TINY changed the modem to a HSP56 MicroModem (whatever the hell that is) but it communicates slower than my old Pentium 200 machine which has a SupraExpress 56k. Connection speed is ALWAYS 40000bps. and ‘connecting’ and downloading of emails takes an age - it is crap !
A sod of a time re-establishing my scanner/software. The machine could not find the drivers from the "Have Disk" option.
Had the dreaded Yellow exclamation mark against the scanner – sorted by “remove” and starting all over again.
Despite loading the drivers from original disks, the PC could not ‘open’ the scanner.
“Unable to open driver failure or no scanner” - which was bollocks of course.
I can scan in AdobePhotDeluxe3.1 but not in PhotoSuite111 - strange little msg saying make sure you have enough space on the HD…..as if 25GB is not enough.
The Digital Camera set-up was another sod of a time…..the standard entry to retrieve such photos does not work, so I have found another way via “other source”. It’s like using Alternative Laws.
The CD copy software (NeroBurning) comes up with a msg saying, “It looks like your destination drive for the 0n-the-fly copy process are connected to the same IDE bus. We would strongly recommend to connect your source and the destination drive to different IDE busses”.
It said do you want to ‘burn’ anyway……I said YES !!
It copied OK but it’s like doing something you should not, having received a warning.
I’m doing what you might call a full airtest on the sodding thing before writing up the tech log and seeing what TINY can do with it.
I would call the box of tricks a highly disappointing bunch of rubbish. Putting a F1 engine in a Ford Fiesta chassis with dodgy electrics and poor tyres does not work.
If this is meant to be a P3 733 running on a 133 motherboard, I’ve seen more life in a clockwork mouse going backwards.
If anyone thinks about buying from TINY, my advice would be DON’T.