Fenn

Yep, Nero is what I got with my burner. I read somewhere that all you need to do is rename the .nrg files are actually .iso files with a different extension. Is this true?

Can you do this? I can't find it in the options. I found the image writer driver and got it to create images OK but they seem to be in a Nero-specific format. If so, how do I make Nero make ISO files instead of it's preferred format?

Is there a way I can make subst commands persistant (they are still active at the next reboot)? I know you can map a network drive to a local folder to get a persistant directory mapped to drive but this solution is far from ideal. Subst would work better but it doesn't survive to the next restart.

While playing around with WCPUID, I made the discovery that my AGP bus was only running in 1x mode, in spite of the fact it supports 2x mode. Also, sidebanding is disabled, even though that's supported. I have a Microstar MSI 6167 motherboard with an old style cartridge package Athlon (650 MHz). The chipset is AMD751 and the graphics card is a 3DProphet 2 MX (GeForce 2 MX based card). I'm using the latest nVidia detonator XP drivers. The BIOS is Award BIOS 1.6 (According to MicroStar's website, the most up to date BIOS for my motherboard), this doesn't have an option for setting the AGP mode or features like sidebanding. I tried a utility called DC Genie to enable them. They appear checked when I restart the program, but they have no effect, even after a restart. I'm assuming it's writing a registory setting which is now obsolete or is only Windows 9x compatible. I have a screen grab of what WCPUID reported.

Forgot to include the motherboard. it's a MicroStar MSI 6167. BIOS version is 1.60 but the MSI page doesn't seem to have any data on this motherboard. Is there a more up to date BIOS and if so would it help if I flashed it and reinstalled?

Hasn't anyone else had a similar experience?

I'm running Win 2K SP 2 Direct X 8.1 on a 2 year old Athlon based PC 650 MHz Athlon, 256 meg RAM, AMD 750 chipset The machine originally came with Windows 98 and had the AMD bus mastering drivers installed. When I switched to Win 2K I downloaded the bus mastering package and installed it. However, there have been some problems. The biggest one has to do with the IDE channels. In Win 98, there were 3 items listed under HD controllers in Device Manager: AMD bus mastering controller, primary channel and secondary channel. In Win 98, all 3 were being driven by AMD drivers. However, in Win 2K, only the bus mastering controller gets an AMD driver after installation of the driver package, the primary and secondary channels remain Microsoft drivers This has nasty side effect of making DVD playback very annoying if a disk is even only extremely slightly damaged or scratched. In Win 98 this wasn't a problem, but in 2K when the player gets to a damaged part of the disc, it will lock up for anything up to a minute and in some cases the DVD player crashes all together. This happened with both PowerDVD and WinDVD. As I already sais, this didn't happein in win 98 on identical hardware with identical drivers installed. If anyone knows what to do about this please email me at gordon.mcvey@ntlworld.com with the solution, as having to reboot to Win 98 to watch DVDs is really annoying. Thank you.