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Is the modem connected through a network card?

Found another one.... Soyo 6VBA 133 BIOS Problems Posted Thursday, June 29, 2000 Yoh Jinno send me the follow message concerning the new 6VBA 133 BIOS. Unfortunately, SOYO did not test this new fixed bios properly. 1: Under NTFS, Windows 2000 - fresh install works. 2: Under FAT32, Windows 2000...fresh installs fails -exactly the same as before. I cannot change resolution from 640 to higher resolutions. ATI All IN WONDER 128 Also, noticed that some registry can never be properly saved..thus, Event Viewer shows tons of problems with fresh install. So again, I went back to BIOS Revision 6VBA-2BA3. Note: If Bios was replaced with Windows 2000 already installed. Windows 2000 seems working ok. So it is still very dangerous .... For example...you bought a new mother board...and try to install a new OS (Windows 2000) You got a system with this motherboard...and OS was preinstalled (mostlikely...not a regular install..but image type installation.) and you must reformat hard disk to do a fresh install.

Found this in the news archive: Soyo 6VBA Bios Problems Posted Thursday, August 31, 2000 Yoh Jinno send once again words that the new Soyo bios cause problems under Windows 2000. 6VBA 133 BIOS files file name: vba-2baa.bin checksum: 51D7 release date: 08/29/2000 BIOS revision: 6VBA-2BAA Changes: Fixed register DIMM can't boot with 133 frequency. Add "PhoenixNet enable/disable" function. Support Cyrix III. ----Result: Soyo did it again 3rd time in a row..what a great fix. This time: Windows 2000 ...finds no Floppy disk Drive at boot, and it installs a driver....asks me to reboot ....OK..reboot...the same situation. I put my old bios back. vba-2ba3.bin ---SEEMS THIS IS THE MOST STABLE BIOS EVER ISSUED BY SOYO. No more missing floppy drive under windows 2000. For Fairness? It works fine with Windows 98. (As I dual boot) past problem 1: Windows 2000 ...cannot remember resolution registry esp ATI 128 graphics card ( mine is ATI ALL IN WONDER 128 16MB) and it turns out that it has difficulty in keeping correct registry information from various applications. 2: Now the above problem has been fixed...but if Windows 2000 resides on FAT32, registry shall be corrupted so easily. 3: I did not test. 4: 6VBA-2BAA --- See problem above. Windows 2000 FAT 32 drive, Floppy Drive problem. Look like their bios cause many problems. Get another mobo if you can (not from soyo).

Is that a invitation for jdulmage?

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There is a very poor D3D driver for Voodoo 2. Even passthrough wont work, you need a second monitor. You can get the driver at 3dfx gamers Download 1.00.00 BETA (DirectX 7 Support) Feb 24, 2000 0.46 MB http://www.3dfxgamers.com/drivers/voodoo2/voodoo2_win2k_beta.stm Driver Versions Voodoo2 Driver kit: Beta 1.00.00 Voodoo2 Win2K 2D/3D Display Drivers: Beta 5.00.2029.0001 System Requirements Windows 2000 Voodoo2 chipset based video card PC with a Pentium, Pentium II, or Pentium Pro Processor One free PCI slot (or two free PCI slots for SLI 16MB of RAM Installation Instructions NOTE : Windows 2000 does not support the passthrough feature of the Voodoo2. The card must be installed in the same way as you would install a secondary 2d/3d board in a multi-monitor setup. ** DO NOT ATTEMPT INSTALL THE CARD AS A MULTIMEDIA DEVICE. ** Run the self-extracting executable. Power off the system and insert the Voodoo2 card in a free PCI slot. Power on the system. Windows will report that it has detected new hardware. The 'Found New Hardware Wizard' should now appear. Click the Next Button. Choose the second option to display the list of known drivers. On the next page select 'Display adapters' as the type of hardware that you wish to install. Click 'Have Disk' and enter the location where the driver files were extracted to in Step1. When asked to choose a device select '3dfx Voodoo2'. Windows will bring up a number of Dialog Boxes which will ask you to confirm that you want to install the driver. Answer yes to all of these. Windows will now copy the drivers. Bring up Display Properties->Settings and enable the Voodoo2 as part of your desktop. I think lauri mixed both drivers by installing the glide driver and then the d3d driver.

The new design of Whistler remind me alot of MacOS. Now I need only a new mac like case

It's still fast

Wow... The new server is fast

New Screenshots from Whistler 2257

jdulmage: I just saw over your site. Nice games..just tried The Last Quest 2 . Only there are too much midi (13.09MB in 660 midi files ). Btw Crosswind doesn't allow direct links to files. I download your games through http://www.crosswinds.net/~jdulmage Christian [This message has been edited by CM (edited 04 September 2000).]

Btw this guy remind me on the Windows 2000 review in the german GameStar magazine. They installed NT 4.0 drivers for the TNT and said that only 2D games work correct on W2K. *LOL*

Yes !!! 11 pages

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Great!! Thanks

No problems here. But i use a 3dfx video adapter.