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ok so i have a raid0 setup, but i cant get windows xp setup to recognize it because i dont have a floppy drive anymore. how does one go about embedding a driver like that onto a windows xp cd? all i need to do is to add my raid controller's drivers to the windows xp cd so that i do not have to hit F6 and insert the floppy disk. thanks for any help or information. could i do that using the setup manager? -hydro

i have been searching microsoft's site all day just about looking for that information; it still confuses the shit outta me. all i want to do is to create a cd that has my raid controllers drivers on it. its just a highpoint 370A onboard my motherboard. im gonna mess with all this tomorrow evening. thanks a lot man!

i have a system that has the following: 2x80gb 8mb cache hard drives in a raid0 striping array and 2x60gb 2mb cache hard drives by theirselves. all spindle speeds are 7200rpm. i cant decide how to configure my system. i used to install windows xp onto the massive raid0 array along with all my applications and games. i kept downloads, drivers, music, videos and etc on a single 60gb drive. i just added another 60gb drive and now im more concerned about my system's uptime/stability over the kickass raid performance. however, i now have windows xp installed onto a 60gb drive by itself. on the raid array i have the paging file and on the other 60gb drive i have nothing yet. i have a few possibilities: 1] i install all programs on my raid array that i want to take advantage of it and install other small programs on my windows xp drive and keep the downloads on the other 60gb drive. 2] i install all my programs onto the windows xp drive, then move all downloads and etc to the raid array and use the other 60gb drive for encoding to the raid array [videos and etc] 3] i install all programs to the 2nd 60gb drive, keep all downloads on the massive raid array and leave windows alone on its own drive. im sure there are many other combinations i could do, however, you get the idea. which scenario would be best performance-wise and logically correct? im also open to any other suggestions or ideas as well. ive been trying to decide for like two days now lol. any input is greatly appreciated. -hydro

yes i know raid0 is worthless for stability. as for your suggestion...i didnt even think about that. i might give that a go; thanks. but im still open for ideas.

You only have 512MB of RAM, so no you SHOULD NOT disable the paging file. Think about this. Given a scenario where you have many things open at once, 512MB of RAM can be filled pretty quickly, with things such as Photoshop, Office, or even games and little old apps themselves can eat your memory and not give it back. I also have 512MB of RAM on BOTH of my machines and I always use a paging file of 512MB statically set, it seems to work the best for me. Note: Anytime I use diskeeper to defragment the paging file it never needs it...probably because 512MB of RAM is enough for most things, but then again....you never know. Better safe than sorry, having a paging file won't hurt you that bad. -hydro

regarding the issue with half life and windows 2000/xp all i can say is to upgrade to the latest patch

for any of you having problems are you using logitech or ibm mice? i have found that and i can verify this, that it seems that most logitech mice tend to get all spastic when it comes to half life in particular. i had this logitech optical mouse for a long time and on windows 2000 professional and windows xp professional i had these really weird problems with it. such as, if you move the mouse too fast it will appear to just go crazy on its own. so for my pc i bought a microsoft mouse then all of a sudden all of my problems with half life disappear. enter a few weeks ago: i purchased a used pc from a friend, its a 900mhz duron blah blah blah really doesnt matter, but i hooked up my old logitech mouse to it and needless to say, this mouse still causes problems with half life, its like the mouse is just really quirky...its hard to explain how it feels but its if you move the mouse too fast then it just appears to do its own thing lol. i have had that problem with my microsoft mouse and the fix for me was NOT installing microsoft's intellipoint software, that completely fixed that problem for me. i can only see two possibilities here: logitech's optical mice' scanning sensor cannot pick up as many movement's as my microsoft mouse can at once or the logitech mouse uses a TOTALLY different method of tracking movement. if you use a logitech mouse, buy a cheap microsoft optical mouse and i bet your mousing problems go away as long as you dont install the intellipoint software/drivers. also add '-noforcemparms' in the command line parameters for half life [without the 's of course and leave a space between the target and the parameter] and that basically clears acceleration, provided you have it disabled in the control panel for either win2000 or xp. ive seen this trouble on 3 systems in my house and the only fix was to do the above mentioned. get a microsoft mouse and dont install the software. my logitech does it no matter what i do.

http://iupload.net/032003/ff7chocobopatch.zip That will fix the chocobo racing issues under win2k and winxp

Well after reading and feeling sorry for you guys, I decided to register and upload the patch for you all. http://iupload.net/032003/ff7chocobopatch.zip Download it, unzip it, follow the instructions and the chocobo races will work absolutely perfect and fine under both Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Enojy :] -hydro