My Boss

[FastAndFurious]

My boss wanted me to prepare a LCD PC(all in one machine) for a customer that he just sold to. It comes with a 1 GHz 128Mb Ram Win2000. He told the people that they could have Win98 because they claim thier lawyer software only works with Win98, so now I get to format and reinstall Win98 and find drivers etc..etc..etc. They he tells me that he wants 512Mb Ram in it. WTF?!?!?!? I had this discusion with him before, when He made a order for me to build a P4 1.5GHz---1GB Ram---80GB hdd---64Mb Gforce-with win98se!!!!! So I told him agian and he said that the people buying the computer said that it will only run on win98 and requiers 512ram. I don't know if it is him lying or the customer Anyway, he asks what can we do, and I say either go to win2k or drop the ram to 256 or 384. Well he said neither was an option, so then he asked me "Well as long as the machine says that it has 512Mb Ram thats ok, can you share that memory with the video card to even everything out?" I leave you with that as I jump out the window.

[Pyroate]

most Sales Managers should never be allowed near the techs. I feel for you since i've been there but don't jump toss him out instead it's justified no jury would convict.

[Spork]

The majority of the sales managers I worked with at my last job couldn't tell their *** from a hole in the wall. All they cared about was selling the customer as much as they could and keeping him/her happy. They have no knowledge of what will or will not work with computers and they really don't care about it until the customer starts bitching to them that it's not working. Then where does it fall on? Us, the techs. Then we have to find a way to make it all work.

[ephmynus]

Ummm, that's kinda funny and all but I'm still wondering why you couldn't run 98se with 512mb of RAM on it. ??? Maybe it's just me... or is it...

[WesFlash]

That legal program needed 512K of ram, as in it was made back in the days that Bill Gates said 640K of RAM is all we will need.
My wife works for a law firm, and sometimes I wish they would hire me because the computers these people use are so messed up that the hard drives need to be slicked first to begin fixing them. I feel your pain, though. Luckily for my wife, she got a new computer when the computer techs at the law firm couldn't figure out why it kept crashing at the most inopportune times. My wife isn't that bad with computers, although she preferrs WinME to Win2K because she didn't like all of the problems finding a Win2K video driver for her computers S3 chipset.
Keep your chin up, and laugh at them for how stupid they will feel when you explain how 98 uses memory over 512mb.

[FastAndFurious]

This guy isn't a sales manager or anything like that... HE IS THE OWNER!!!!!!!!!! And he has owed this shop for 11 years now.

[ilovetheusers]

[quote]Originally posted by FastAndFurious:
<strong>This guy isn't a sales manager or anything like that... HE IS THE OWNER!!!!!!!!!! And he has owed this shop for 11 years now.</strong><hr></blockquote>

I've worked for people who knew nothing of the business they owned. It's infuriating to say the very least.

[EvilCabbage]

Ive worked for idiots, just left my job working for a whole bunch of them actually..

I still fail to see where an issue comes from, with running Win98 and 512Mb RAM comes into it though...

[PitaBred]

[quote]Originally posted by EvilCabbage:
<strong>Ive worked for idiots, just left my job working for a whole bunch of them actually..

I still fail to see where an issue comes from, with running Win98 and 512Mb RAM comes into it though...</strong><hr></blockquote>

Win9x tends to be... unhappy... when more than 320MB RAM is installed.

[Raven]

it is bad memory allocation

[firemonkey]

I have 98 se that is runnig 704 megs and it seems to be happy..

[senectus]

Besides that, win 98 wont properly use more than 256 anyway... Your better of with 256 and the rest Virtual MEMory...