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Does anyone no how to disable the beta expiration in RC1 or RC2? I remember someone posted something about it way back before this new forum. I didn't pay any attention to it cause I thought that I'd always be re-installing w2k. Well, I've gotten RC1 to a point that I absolutely love it. Thus I don't want to install RC2, and would rather wait until Q1 Feb for w2k retail. Anyone have any ideas?

Igor: I tried those new beta 1.20 bios and drivers on the old BP6. I was hoping to salvage it cause I haven't gotten around to returning it yet. Anyways, to make a long story short: the new software works, er and firmware works. That old board would sometimes choke just turning on and would take like two days to boot into W2K. Now w/ the new stuff, RC1 has never booted faster. It absoluuutely rocks! Download them from BP6.com. Also, everything seems pretty tight, though I'm only using 300a celerons clocked to 464. I like it.

Igor: I suspect you might either have an early BP6 or one that is not quite that stable. I have since swapped out my BP6 I bought back in August for one from this month. Needless to say, I have much fewer lockups and intermittant boot problems. From this, I suspect that yield quality in BP6's varies greatly. I consult for a local shop which lets me raid their back room. I've tested some BP6's. Old ones generally have more problems, not to mention overclock poorly. I was testing chips this week. I had a plot of 10 Celeron 400's. They all seemed to be limited to 552 6x92FSB on my old BP6. I took them home to do some serious o/c'ing. I later found that when they were in my BP6 manufactured in Sep., most were able to go to 570 6x95 2.2v, and two made it to 594 6x99 2.3v. So, if you can try to get a newer or different BP6

I have finally seen the light. Well, for at least 24 hours now. Just got the HPT366 working as the boot drive under RC1. Can't tell you how happy I am. My girlfriend is gonna kill me for stayin' up soo late last night. Anyways, here's how: Beta bios 2 HPT bios 1.10 Highpoint beta drivers 1.00.5 I installed on the ide33 channels w/ an ide cd. After getting all the drivers setup, I changed my IBM DJNA18GB drive to the hpt366-channel 4. It took about two minutes and she loaded into RC1. Also, I used the latest SB Live drivers, except I only used the drivers for the PCI Interface and not the WDM Live drivers that were already loaded by RC1. I also used the TNT RC2 drivers for my TNT2U. I only changed the controllers after getting everything dialed in first! AGP - TNT2U PCI1 - none PCI2 - SB Live PCI3 - none PCI4 - Intel Pro100 PCI5 - none ISA2 - modem The printer port and com port 1 were both disabled. No irq's were shared except for the nic card, which by the way left the usb w/ a "?" in the device manager. Both ide33 channels are enabled right now, though I'll probably disable one of them as long as the HPT366 doesn't share w/ the usb. I got all the drivers from bp6.com. Also, the HPT366 should definitely not share w/ anything else, otherwise it'll hang. I hope this is useful

After feeling secure w/ build 2031, I put build 2072 on my dual PII 400, ASUS P2B-D system. Now I have abnormally high CPU utilization numbers just sitting idle. Has anyone seen this or know how to fix it? I'm not using DHCP, no modem, sound, just a nic card, nothing fancy. It's set up in a workgroup. Plain vanilla style. Thanks.

The system was as an ACPI MPS PC. I changed it to a MPS PC w/o the ACPI. I know have util rates of 0% as compared to a previous 55%. Yippy!

I've had that same prob

I've followed what I've read on this forum on how to get the ATA66 controller to run under w2k, but I'm still having problems. Infact I've tried 2 installs. It still can't access the drive when I switch my ATA66 drive over to the ATA66 controller after installing on the ATA33 controller. I used the ATA66 cables and use a scsi cdrom w/ Adaptec 2940U controller. The only other piece of hardware is my D-link nic card. Help! I'd really like to get this to work. Thanks.

Thanks. Wish I knew that before hand.