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Quote: hey, I have'nt changed my nvidia drivers in awhile, i read somewhere yesterday that the newest nvidia drivers don't have the 60hz resolution problem anymore. Is this true? no need to use NVrefreshtool anymore?? Thanks. Hammer Sort of. The Direct3D games don't have the 60hz problem anymore, but if you play OpenGL games you'll still need to use something like NVrefreshtool or do the registry entries by hand. You'll need to update your NVrefreshtool to the newest version if you want to use it. Jim

Quote: Thank you for responding...I have attempted to create a account on each computer with no results can you recommend a simple walk-through? Thank you, Sure here are a couple links to it http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/ http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/FileSharing/Windows/win2kxp.html Have fun! Jim

I saw the movie and thought it was ok, but all the way through the movie I was thinking "I really like this soundtrack" I need to go buy it before I forget to x) Jim

I was noticing today that every post in the forums has the persons name and the level of "membership". The level of membership seems to coincide with the number of posts that person has made. Junior member is under 20 posts (I think) member more than 20 but less than... I haven't made it that far yet What happens when someone stops posting? Do they become dismembered? Yea, it's a slow day for me :x Jim

Quote: Quote: If it's Windows 95 your camera might not work with it anyway, and USB ports likely won't work also. Jim Guys, some "FYI": I have a Windows 95 Osr/2 Cd-Rom that says it has "USB Support" included on it for installation... * So, that does exist... Win95 w/ USB on it! (It'd just be a matter of him getting the same type of Cd-Rom I have here, a Windows 95 Fat32 Osr/2 capable release w/ USB support in it natively @ installation of the OS!) APK P.S.=> It MAY be doable for him... provided he can get ahold of such a Cd-Rom to use... he could potentially stick w/ 95 here! apk Yea, but ALL of the Win95 disks previous to that (2-3 years worth) did not have usb support. Win 95 didn't have usb support until just shortly before Win98 appeared. It's also something that can't be added on afterwards to an earlier version. Plus, the support in Win95 with the usb was a little shaky. There are quite a few devices that required Win98 or newer. Not saying it can't be done, but if it's running Win95 the deck is stacked against him. He'd likely be better off getting a serial memory card reader (do those exist?) and use that. Of course all this assumes he's using Win95.... would all be moot if he's using 98 or newer :x Jim

If this is just a one-time deal I wouldn't spend the money on Partition Magic. Partition Magic is cool if you want to move your partitions around without reformatting. But it's a bit overkill if you just want to start fresh with a clean slate. I'd just boot the system with the Win98 cd if it's a bootable one (make a boot disk if it isn't) and use fdisk. Delete your partitions with that then create a new partition for Win98. I'll let you deide on how much space to allocate for C:. If it were me I'd keep the Win98 partition smallish... like 8GB or so. I'd only make it as big as it needed to be for whatever you need to do that win2k won't... whew say that 3 times fast save that partition and reboot. After reboot start the install of Win98. When you're done installing Win98 you can install Win2k. During the Win2k install choose the unallocated space left over and the Win2k installer will format it for you. A couple things to keep in mind.... Win98 cannot read NTFS without 3rd party software. If you need your Win98 side to read the Win2k side you'll want to format Win2k FAT32. If you don't NEED to read the Win2k partition from Win98 go NTFS. If security is more important go NTFS. Other thing to keep in mind... when you go to install Win2k if you pop in the disk from within Win98 to begin the install your root drive for Win2k will be the next letter after all you other drives. For example, if you have just c: and a cdrom d: then Win2k will be e: if that bugs you then start the install by booting off the Win2k disk. Booting off the Win2k disk for the install will result in your Win2k root to be d: Have fun! Jim

Quote: Thanks guys.... The only problem is I can't use Drive Image. I will try a floppy version of Norton's Ghost, but I doubt it will work to image the drive. I wouldn't do that... If you ghost or clone a drive you'll clone the maxblast overlay also. I'd really doubt that overlay will work on another drive. Try to find another way to back up your stuff. A backup utility like whats built into Windows or a third party program. If nothing else just manually copy all your data files to a zip drive or cd or something. You're really limited to the things you can do with the drive once you install the overlay. Most of the disk utilities (of the off the shelf variety anyway) won't work with an overlay and you run a pretty good risk of corrupting the filesystem if you try to use them. Jim

One thing I'd like to point out is I think we're discussing a couple different issues. The 2GB limit I'm referring to is a PARTITION limit not a DISK SIZE limit. The 528 (I seem to remember 540MB for some reason) limit was a bios limitation. The 8GB disk size is a bios limitation. But the 2GB limit was a FAT16 limitation. You could have an 8GB disk on a DOS system... you'd just have to have 4 partitions to use it all. This is kinda cool though... I'm dredging up all kinds of things about disks that I'd almost completely forgotten about Jim

Quote: Update: The SMART error is only when I have bothe the Quantum bigfoot (the orginal 4GB drive) and the Maxtor connected. If I run the Maxtor by itself no error. I did run PowerMax and BOTH drives pass certification! I did change the cable, but the same thing. Any errors with just the Bigfoot? Might try different master/ slave settings or try cable select on the jumpers. If the two just don't want to get along you might try putting one of the drives on the secondary IDE channel with the cdrom or something like that. Jim

Quote: Nope, no dismemberment. There's some people that registered almost four years ago, and never posted a single time. It would be nice to clear those out, but I don't think there's an easy way to do it. BTW, there's a link at the top of the page to view the Memberlist if you want to see for yourself... heh... that member list is pretty cool! I never noticed that before, thanks! Looks like I'm in the top 300... I'm sure that's quantity and definately not quality of posts :x After seeing all those that haven't posted I'm thinking there should be a dismembered rank or at least corpse Jim

Quote: Quote: Quote: Those things were INITIALLY designed to get by troubles in the 486 to Pentium I era when many motherboard BIOS' & IDE Controllers could not "understand" reaching past the DOS limitation in Fat16 of 2.1gb partition tables... Actually, the BIOS and IDE controllers didn't have any trouble with >2GB partitions. This was strictly a FAT16 limitation. All versions of Windows and DOS prior to Windows 95 OSR2 couldn't use FAT32. Are you 110% positive of that? (IIRC, Yes it was DOS Fat16 2.1gb partition size limitations & you're right Fat32 got past that w/ NTFS & HPFS for PC's... ) * However, alot of controllers & firmware's would not let you go past that (BIOS & IDE I/O Controllers as well) & needed patches as well, again iirc... I could be wrong, but for SOME reason that sticks out in my mind as well that it was hardware-side as well! APK That very possible. I don't remember seeing any controllers that couldn't go past 2GB... that doesn't mean they didn't exist though Jim

Quote: hello how can I connect my digtal camera to my laptop....? the laptop does not have a USB and the camera only got USB connction how can I connect my camera to the laptop.....???? the laptop got com and printer port...... How old is the laptop? Is it running Windows 98 or newer? If it's 98 or newer the easiest would be just use a PCMCIA USB adapter. If it's Windows 95 your camera might not work with it anyway, and USB ports likely won't work also. Jim

Quote: Those things were INITIALLY designed to get by troubles in the 486 to Pentium I era when many motherboard BIOS' & IDE Controllers could not "understand" reaching past the DOS limitation in Fat16 of 2.1gb partition tables... Actually, the BIOS and IDE controllers didn't have any trouble with >2GB partitions. This was strictly a FAT16 limitation. All versions of Windows and DOS prior to Windows 95 OSR2 couldn't use FAT32. Quote: BUT I get a SMART error on bootup even with the feature turned off in the bios. Quote: That sounds like drive circuitry at this point... is there jumpering by some chance on the disk itself where you can turn this off? APK Yea, I think SMART only checks physical things on the drive. It won't (as far as I know) report filesystem errors. Did the SMART errors start popping right after you installed the overlay? Jim

Quote: I did use MaxBlast V3.1 drive overlay and it did work. I did load 2k and that worked, BUT I get a SMART error on bootup even with the feature turned off in the bios. When I try to use Partition Magic I get a drive geometry error and the drive is marked as bad. Don't try to use partition magic with an overlay. An overlay creates its own type of partition scheme that partition magic doesn't understand. FYI Roxio's (formerly Adaptec) GoBack software will give a bad partition message also in partition magic. Jim

Quote: Your right it is a MMX, sorry 'bout that. I'm a AMD guy, this isn't my box! Would never own a inferior Wintel product! (hihi). The ATA card is out. I really don't want to use MaxBlast (it is a Maxtor 531DX). Aren't there too many issues with that software down the road?? How about a bios update from someplace other than HP? For most people there aren't really any issues with the maxblast stuff. You wouldn't want to clone the drive if you installed it. I think all it does is create several 8GB partitions and then just tie them all together with an overlay. You could try looking for a bios update for a generic motherboard thats exactly the same as yours. I wouldn't recommend it though. You run a good chance of not being able to boot afterwards. It's very possible that a bios update wouldn't fix it anyway. The 8GB limit was pretty common on pre-pentium 2 computers. Jim

Quote: I'm up against the classic 8GB limit on a 15GB HDD. There is no bios update, it is a 430TX chipset with a PII 233 processor in a Pavilion 8240 system. Is a bios issue, chipset issue or is it a processor issue? Is there anything that can be done or am I screwed? This is running FAT32 and eventually loading 2k. Win95 is there now on the other drive (there are 2). BTW, there is 256MB of PC66 installed. Nitpicking here... I don't think the TX chipset would support a Pentium 2. You sure it's not just a Pentium MMX 233? If thats the case then, yeah you could have a bios issue. The hard drive manufacturer should have a set up disk with a utility that can overcome this. It's a hack, but it works if you can't get a bios update. Another thing that would probably work and offer better performace as well is get a PCI IDE controller card. They're around $50 new. Jim

Quote: I just heard on the news you guys are getting WAILED on, the most snows you've had in 1 shot in over 2 decades... APK Yup... it's a pretty good storm alright. This morning I heard on the news that we're getting more snow from just this storm than we got all last winter combined. We were in a drought last year and this year too... up til today at least I am a little concerned about flooding now though. It started warming up today and we had quite a bit of melting. Hopefully the drainage can keep up.

Quote: That's QUITE the "swing" in weather patterns...!!! (Hey, was there a diff. in elevations between both spots, or were you mentioning home in BOTH postings?) * That tells me you received a 40+ - degree variance in temperature in what, 2-3 days time over there? (That's as nuts as it gets around here... summer one day, winter the next... especially this time of year!) APK Heh, yup thats at my house both times. Actually it started snowing here Monday evening. The swing in such a short time is actually normal for this time of year around here. The volume is not normal though... normal volume would be an inch to three or so. The most drastic I've seen that I can remember is snowing in the morning warming to almost 80 by mid-afternoon. Temperature swings up to about 45 degree variations are pretty normal for a day here... especially during the spring. I'd expect most of the snow to be melted off by no later than Saturday... just in time for shorts again

Quote: 70's and mostly sunny here in northern Colorado. I spent the day with my girlfriend just out wandering the town. We were in t-shirts and shorts and sandals... man I was sooooo ready to wear shorts and sandals again I almost took the top off my Jeep today... I just knew I wouldn't want to put it back on this evening. The weather can go from 80 to snowing in 6 hours here this time of the year though. Jim OK... just to add to this there is 31 inches of snow on the ground at my house now. We're expected to get up to another foot today Jim

I guess it's as safe as any other pre-release version of Windows. You'll need to enable a bunch of things that are disabled by default, especially if you want to play games. Jim

Where is it asking for a password? Are you just setting up a share and when you try to access the share from a different computer it asks for a password? If this is the case and you're using XP Pro, the user needs to have an account on the machine with the share unless you enable simple file sharing. Jim

Quote: When I launch the game I get one of those "Microsof® Hellbender had encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." messages. Sometimes, when the filesystem is NTFS i've found that just running chkdsk /f on your hard disk helps. It might not in this case, but it's worth a try. I've had it fix mysterious "just stopped working" problems before. Jim

Quote: 2. If i hide the run command but not allow the "run" window to appear in the START area - how can i access it incase i need to make changes? when you do a ctrl+alt+del to bring up the task manager if you click "file" you get a run box. You might want to hide that as well. I don't know if the stuff DS3Circuit told you about would hide that one. It might... I genuinely don't know. Jim

70's and mostly sunny here in northern Colorado. I spent the day with my girlfriend just out wandering the town. We were in t-shirts and shorts and sandals... man I was sooooo ready to wear shorts and sandals again I almost took the top off my Jeep today... I just knew I wouldn't want to put it back on this evening. The weather can go from 80 to snowing in 6 hours here this time of the year though. Jim

Quote: Downloading now, @ 4.1kb/second... SLOW! Man... I only dream of downloading things that fast 8) It'll sure be nice when broadband is available here. I was on cable at my previous home, I really got used to 400-600kb/ sec there. Now, lucky if I can get 3. Oh well, maybe that 'l33t Ratpadz will speed that up too