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How to find out if you're running the eval version of W2K build 2195. Run winver.exe The text will be Microsoft ® Windows Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Copyright © 1981-1999 Microsoft Corp. Evaluation copy. Expires .... This product is licensed to: If the 4th line does not appear, you don't have the 120-day eval version. Easy really...

Hm.... What happens if you install the CL TNT, install the drivers, then swap the Herc back in? Also, is the PCI vendor ID of the Herc card the same as the CL? Does W2K see the Herc as a TNT card at all?

The trial period isn't based on the CD key. The setup prog asks you to accept the 120-eval licence before it asks you for the key...

Byron - sorry if this sounds a little patronising, but a bootable CD is the equivalent to a 650Mb floppy disk. The whole point about it being bootable is that it can load sufficient code from the "boot block" to access the rest of the disk...

My TNT1 has been working just fine with W2K for the last 9 months, with all the driver revisions that have been available - from the version included with W2K up to and including 3.69. The implication of your e-mail is that you too have working TNT1 cards, and just two of them are unhappy under W2K. Perhaps it is the cards rather than the OS that is the problem. However, it's a little difficult to remotely diagnose and resolve such an issue without more information than you've supplied. Perhaps the brand and bus type of the cards themselves, mobo type, and BIOS revision of both would be a step in the right direction. Also, you could use the fabulous "search" facility that this forum provides, to see if anyone else has experienced the same "problem" as you. If you have trouble locating the link to click, try http://ntgamepalace.3dfiles.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?action=intro&default=6

Dude! You remembered!!!

ATI made a big announcement just a few days ago about their plans for supporting W2K. Check their web site...

Byron, thanks for doing the wordy version - I really couldn't be bothered

Actually, he's talking about creating a RAM disk, and putting the swap file on it. If you think about it, that's why I suggested just zeroing the swap file instead...

Good point about max and min sizes - set both to the max size to stop fragmentation of the swap file. However, a different partition is not always a good idea for the swap file, unless the partition is 1. On a seperate physical device - on the same just increases the amount of head movement. 2. On a seperate channel if you run IDE. Putting the OS on master and swap on slave on the same IDE channel will seriously degrade performance.

Search this message forum - there's lots of discussion of release dates for 3dfx driver...

The MS ForceFeedback stick works fine for me under 2195, so it's not an FF thing. What drivers did you (or W2K) install? What does the device get listed as?

The is no average or normal IRQ/sec rate for a machine. It depends on what's in it and what is running. My SMP box, when quiecent (with BlackICE, OutLook, mIRC, Fax, AIM, Gozilla, MBM, etc running) is about 200/sec - if I open a QuickTime movie if goes up to 1500/sec. Your figure of 50% is somewhat meaningless Many parallel printers now pass extensive status info back to the PC - it may be that this is causing the high level of interrupts you see. Try changing the BIOS settings of the port to ECP or EPP...

Under NT4 you took 100Mb of RAM away from the OS to make a RAM disk for the swap file? This is a very silly thing to do. Why not just make a zero sized swap file in the first place? The OS can manage memory a bit better than that... The best size for the swap file it whatever size the OS decides is best - usually size-of-memory + a margin. If you're really unhappy with the OS swapping, zero the swap file size...

Using the Processes tab in the Task Manager, click on the CPU column (to sort by CPU usage), and see which process is actually using all your cycles... Then tell us.

FWIW, my MS FF stick works fine. What does W2K detect the wheel as?

I have a pair of PPGA 300a's in Slot1 adaptors (slockets) running at 450Mhz 24*7 in a SuperMicro P6DBS. I'm using the MSI 6905 v1.1 slocket card. Word is that you can run a 400Mhz Celery up to 600Mhz with 100Mhz FSB...

Get the MicroSoft ACPI Hardware Compatability Tester from http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/acpihct.htm

PowerStrip and PowerStrip GX are written for W2K. Don't expect any official video drivers for W2K to have overclock facility...

If you bothered to do a search of the existing message on this forum, you'd find the prefered method of overclocking the TNT is to use

Look at the UnrealTournament.log file. It will give you the OS version, UT version, video driver version, and maybe even a reason for failure...

It depends... What version of W2K, UT, and are you trying D3D or OpenGL?

I've o/c'd using the MSI Slot1->Socket370 converters - which is also how I got SMP. I did the mobo search, but didn't find anything that matched the list in SoftFSB...

Thanks for the info... FWIW, I never made SoftFSB work for me - I got bored with the "trial and error/reboot" approach, and e-mailed SuperMicro . . . no reply. Still, I'm happy for the time being with a pair of Celery 300a's running at 450.

The quick solution is to put the drive on the ATA/33 bus, install W2K, install the ATA/66 drivers, then move the drive back onto the ATA/66 bus...