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Its a workaorund for the mobo to "allegedly" make it work when you use a Universal AGP card (one that has 2 nothches, eg Geforce, Radeon). When you use this, windows 2000 or XP will refuse to boot. The workaround is by reserving the memmory Address range C800-CBFF, if you dont do this then the mobo will geta a POST error, and will NOT complete post next time running. Go to intels DK440LX site and have a look, also make sure you have the latest BIOS!

Hi, Im currently using a Dk440LX mobo (P4 is arriving in a week or so ), and i have to say, i wrote the review that it works fine, and it does! I havent had any rpoblems, and now i have XP. The only problem with this board is that windows 2000 or Xp wont boot, when you use the Intel workaround after installing a Universal AGP card, this is bceuase something will try and write to the memmory location that you have reserved. As for your lockups, it is probably becuase of the AGP port, this was 1 of intels 1st AGP motherboards (along with the AL440LX and another one), so its only got AGP 1.0 spec and its not as good as can be. I was gonna install a universal AGP card (TNT2 Pro) but Xp or 2K wouldnt boot, and i did NOT want NT4 or 98. One thing that you can try to see is, in the BIOS check if your having any conflicts with the IRQ's, and also try to boot up in safe mode and see wether this continues!

I must say ive had a hellova lot more BSODS on XP than 2K, but thats prob becuase i added my ADSL modem when i got XP! Anyway ive had no other problems with winXP apart from the occasional BSOD relating to my ADSL modem, and power consuption (my old chipset doesnt like to give over 500ma to the USB, but this modem sometimes needs more). XP SP1 adds some good features, like any SP should do!

Thnx a lot mate, that helped a lot. What kind of differnce can i expect from using DDR tho?

Hmm, i have XP pro, with Counterstrike and have NEVER seen this problem even with my good ol' 56K modem! Now im usin 512/256 ADSL, so it may be a problem either with ur ISP, or ur settings.

It really depends on what u want it for? here is a list of CD-RW's and what they are good for: Audio = Any Plextors over 16x and new Yamahas *NOT LITE-ON*, Plextors can also beat the Key2Audio protection by Sony, and so can the newer yamahas, sony drives over 40x wite speed can aswell. Games/with protections= Lite-Ons over 16x (Write speed) mainly, but if you have an Asus,Plextor... with it it will make a good combo. This is becuase Lite_ons arent good with Sub-Channel (some new Sony protections that use it eg. Securom) Data= really any CD-RW is good for this. Make sure it has a buffer of 2MB or over, Justlink or any other buffer underrun protection and burnproofing.

Ive seen those systems go for around £600-700 (Pound Sterling) on ebay, hpe u made it a high reserve....

98/ 98SE MUST always be on the primary, or it wont like it, ME doesnt need to tho.

With getright, it can help with downloads, with me, if i segment a download it will ALWAYS increase in speed by about 10Kb/s or more, my conenction is an ADSL 512/256, i even noticed the difference with my old modem, before i had ADSL, fro 2Kb/s to about 4Kb/s, thats 200% incerase with a 56k modem 8) . As for alecstaar's question, yes it does help quite a bit, especially with big files, so you can pause and unpause them...

or you can use a little proggy called outlock, or is that only for outlook 2k?

Thnx Alecstar, but this is for Windows 2000, i mean where do i get the ACS or whatevr it is for XP pro? any ideas?

I ddint find anythign that realets to what i need, what was the post called?

yeah, some of us British peeps need informin!

Sorry, but must say im not from America so im not familiar with all your slang terms ;( Anwyay if anyone has any queries about CLoneCD please dont hesitate to ask....

Quote: Four and Twenty: clone cd is the sh1t use it and you'll love it also Quote: Mr Guverment: and the only problem with CloneCD is if u have asmall scratch on your cd, it will read it as a copy protected sector, and still make an image and BAM! there is a useless image As for Mr guverment, thats becuase some games do have bad sectors??? Some copy protections even if they are NOT standard use bad sectors, one of my CD's was brand new, i tried to back it up, it had bad sectors BUT the backup plays perfectly. As for your problems, it could be your plextor needs a firmware update since it a known issue that some plextors with CCD have been too sensetive!

This place seems to have it: http://azz.gouranga.com/gta2_files.html

Anyone ever tried CloneCD? Ive made a backup of my GTA3 CD, and so have many of my friends, the link in my sig gves you most of the stuff nedeed also a tutorial fro copying games is found here.

How would i go about doing that?

All i really wana do is limit the internet bandwidth to my bros PC, any wya in hell that can happen? using other programs???

Download the latest GTA2 patch and all should work fine, thats how my cousin got it to work anyway.

glad to see ur system back up!

this is an error with windows XP, go onto windows update and search for all the updates u can. It either in the Critical Updates or the Windows Updates section. I know cause i had the same problem....

No my BIOS doesnt have an option for the PCI latency tweak.... and i did see the mod on ur GF4 card, its amazing... , so i know why u dont have any more space . Anwyay thnx for all you help, im gonna get a new P4 system soon anyway....

well, u were right, after i disabled Sophos 1 of my HDD's were much faster, they got to 15mb/s but the other one stayed lower than 5mb/s @ about 3..., And what is the average speed for ULTRA SCSI?

i always have Sophos Inter check monitor on, il see what happens if i disable it and re-run.