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Yes on the extra drive. I did think about that, to load a O/S to a new drive and see if that works without doing anything to the old drive.

This really isn't a 2k question, it seemed like the place to put it. I'm going to work on this 5630 and the Compaq, now HP site isn't much help since they would rather sell a new box than upgrade a old one. What I want to do is wipe the drive and UN-Compaq the box as much as possible! I want to get rid of the splash screen for starters. In other words I want to turn it into a real computer (well, at least as much as possible if you get my drift)! It is a Wintel chipset board, but I have no idea what the bios is other than their lame excuse for a bios that has probably been modified from what it was orginally. I used Copernic Pro to serach for Compaq forums but only find the HP site which isn't any help. Anyone with experiance with the Presaro 5600 series?

To me, the case and MB on these pre made boxes are married together; "to death do us part"! Since they are propriatary boards (the AGP slot is between the 2 PCI slots!) your stuck with their design. All I wanted to do in upgrade the OS and hardware other than the MB, case and PS.

Don't care about the orginal setup. That's 4 years old. Just don't want to wipe the bios if it was still on the drive like older Compaqs. I removed the IDE cable from the dsrive and booted to a floppy ok. I assume that means the bios IS on the MB, since if it was on the HD the MB wouldn't even post, correct?

Already have it. Will try it on the other puter.

Thanks, but been there. Looking for something that tells me something other than basics!

Using 2 audio cards w/Winamp 3 Running 2k w/sp2 and a PII 450 and Intel chipset (surely NOT my favorite, only a cheap 2nd box). I have 2 audio cards: The first is a Winnov Videum AV video capture card with audio. The 2nd is a Creative SB CT4810. I added the SB after because the audio from the capture card sucks! It is noisy especially when playing mp3's. They are full of static and hiss where the SB with the stock Windows drivers (I didn't load anything else) is fine! Not that I'm a fan of Creative or especially stock Windows drivers, but that is the case here. The Winnov has the lastest drivers for 2k. The problem is when I play audio CD's using the SB as the default device in sound & multimedia properties (box checked) I have no level control in Winamp. If I use the capture card I have control. This is only fron CD's. I hope this is clear. Any ideas?

There is a option, among others, under: options/preferences/plugins/output/ direct sound/compatability/ to create a primary buffer! No wonder you can't find anything buried that many layers deep. I thought Windows was bad! No idea what 'creating a primary buffer' has to do with audio quality though!

Using a Highpoint HP366 controller chip on a Soyo SY6BA+IV MB I get a 'no available devices' when entering the boot order screen in the HP bios. This just started. The bios version is the stock 1.25. I tried to update the driver through Windows, but the version still shows 1.25 in Device Manager after installing or trying to install 1.28! Both drives show in the boot screen and in Windows and are accessible in Windows. I just can't change the boot order. BTW, I'm running Win 2000 w/sp3 with 2 bootable Maxtor drives Any ideas?

I contacted Soyo and they DID get back to me telling me to try to change the boot order to scsi,c,a from a,c,scsi in the MB's bios and it worked! I don't remember if I could access the drives before with the order that way, I never had this problem before. I have changed the order before many times, but never looking what order it was set in the MB's Award bios! Now, if anyone knows how to update the Highpoint chip's bios since Highpoint's update V1.28 is just for PCI cards I believe, or at least it doesn't work here!

Unnecessary waste of space that only confuses the issue more!

The events were in this order: I removed 2 cards and added 1. I went into add/remove hardware (which I never used in 2k before) to delete/remove instances of these cards. Entries other than what I clicked on got removed. I thought it was a fuke so I continued to remove the other card. Before I rebooted most of the hardware list in add/remove hardware was gone. I rebooted and the new hardware wizard came up with all the missing hardware: highpoint controller, video card, network card, usb camera and I don't remember what else. Anyone know what happened? I thought I only clicked on one entry each time since it appears you can only remove one at a time anyway. I know I didn't click on the video card, usb camera, network card!

The response has been overwhelming! There was a 'unknown device that I removed in add/remove hardware. No idea what it was of course. No chance that it was a critcal device since this is Windows and NOTHING strange EVER happens with Windows! Right?

Teriffic! What does that that have to do with this thread?

Quote: C:\>prompt What do you want now?$_$P$G What do you want now? C:\> Could you explain that??????? I have V2.73. V 2.81 is the later version. I will download it and try and let u know. I also noticed V3 is TWICE the size of V2.73!

I have used the older Winamp but not on this box! I will uninstall and reinstall a older version. I hope I still have somewhere.

what does the a and s mean? can this be done for other windows services?

Ok........would you like to tell me just how to do that? I'm not very good in DOS which I assume you are talking about to use regarding the switches.

I would recomend going to Black Vipers' site for a list of what needs to run and what doesn't: http://www.blkviper.com/WIN2K/servicecfg.htm

Quote: Avalanche IrfanView all the way. Small, good interface, easy to use. Great list of plugins too, and everything is free. Couldn't of said it better. Nice small program, very fast loading and closing of program, far better than Photoeditor from M$ (in Office) works with avi files better than Media Player! If you want a slideshow and photoeditor I use ThumbsPlus V5. It's a very large program, the database can get large also and it does a whole lot, BUT it's a resource hog big time!

I have lost the default web view in explorer open windows. When I open a folder or drive the left pane ins't there. The whole width is the directory. I can change it back, but I have to go through the 'customize this folder' wizard and create a html template to do it and it is only for that view. When I view another drive or folder, I have to do the same thing. I also notice it creates 2 additional entries (hidden) in each folder: folder settings and desktop.ini! I looked under winnt\web and the gifs for the backgroung wallpaper in that web view are there. On another system they got deleted and the same effect happened, you don't have the left pane as a preview window for images or descriptions on files. I hope anyone reading this will know what I'm referring to.

Good question. I did install SP3, but I believe it was after the problem. There were 3 pieces of software that I wanted to install to try out (you know, ones I've downloaded months ago because they looked good or someone recomended them and never got around to install them).

Not to be petty, but the standard voltage in the US is 120, NOT the often misnamed 110! It does throw the math off a little. If you have a multimeter with a current scale (20 amp) you could get a more acurate measurement by making up a 'y' adapter between the outlet and the equipment to be measured. Take at least a 16 guage or better yet a 14 guage line cord or piece of romex, cut the hot (black) wire in the middle and splice a short jumper using the same cable/wire to a pair of bananna plugs for your meter input. Put a male plug on one end and a female socket on the other, (making it a extension cord). Plug the bananna plugs into the correct inputs on the meter first, turn the meter on the AC 20 amp scale, then plug the equipment into the socket, then plug into a AC outlet and take a reading. One at a time turn each piece on if you have more than one on the circuit. I have found the rattings on almost all equipment to be overratted by twice the average current draw. The ratting is only the maximum peak or surge starting current which is nowhere near the average running current. Of course if you have a regular clamp on current meter all you need is to split a AC extension cord (cable) and clamp around one leg of the supply to read current. There are meters that will read regular line cords without separating the hot from the neutral.

Have you tried Opera or Mozilla? Both are a fraction of the size of Idiot Exployer without the spyware!

The transfer speed of DSL is the same between the CO (central office) and your modem (which really osn't a modem) at 4pm as it is at 4am, unlike cable where the speed varies depoending on traffic load. I know someone that has cable and there is a huge difference between those time periods when all the kiddies come online with their silly chat rooms and other bandwidth hogging applications and at night when few are on! I'm not talking about the internet in general, just between the CO (DSL) or 'head end' or 'node' (cable) and the subscriber.