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On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:20:19 -1000, David Ross wrote: > >I wrote: >>> I'm running IE4 on my TP560; have been for some time. [etc] > >D. W. Wieboldt inexplicably wrote: > >>Micro$oft SLIME! > >Excuse me, this is entirely uncalled for. My employer - *not* Microsoft - >can be guessed from my e-address. > >>[problems with IE install omitted] >>Does anybody know if the bios / video driver re-install will fix this? > > >Did you read my post before flaming me? Whether or not it is the cause of >the particular problem you relate, you absolutely need a recent version of >your machine's BIOS to run IE4, since IE4 might otherwise interfere with APM. >Re-installing video drivers (even the same ones you have, tough preferably >the newest ones) is the most-recommended (on the Usenet IE group) way of >resolving IE4 problems, and is said to work in a large number of instances. > >Incidentally, if an IE4 install filled 100 megabytes, then you were probably >doing a maximal install (active desktop, etc). You should install a bare >minimum of components, then add new ones as you need them, makes debugging >easier. While we're on this topic, has anyone compared Communicator vs. IE 4.0 on a mobile machine? Since I'm closer to getting my SPARCbook up, I found that both IE 4.0 and Communicator are supported for Solaris. Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask (being a browser question, and that I never use MS stuff anyways). -- Paul Khoury <pkhoury@loop.com> http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org Sent from my P75 Server running OS/2 Warp 4.0, Fixpack 6 There are 28 Processes with 94 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 3h 48m 14s 710ms.