Preatorian

Mapped drives are a per-user configuration, a machine cannot have a mapped drive (what would it do with it??), only users can. For your service, just point it to the UNC path (\\server\share) instead of the drive (which won't exist), which shouldn't cause any problems but may not be as asthetically pleasing to you (but who cares? ) Also keep in mind that if the "Everyone" group doesn't have the necessary permission u want the service to have on the share then u will have to run the service as a user (possibly a domain user if u have a domain) who does.

Anyone have experience with using the Philips Acoustic Edge successfully under win2k with a VIA KT133 chipset? I have to upgrade my sound card because my old vortex2 doesn't work at all with my new KT133 board and was thinking of the acoustic edge since all the reviews of it are so good. So I was just wondering if anyone had in problems in getting win2k to work or if the win2k drivers are missing some of the functions. Also, anyone know of a cheap place to get it? Lowest I've seen online is $76+$10 shipping which seems pretty expensive to me. Any comments welcome, thanks in advance.

I have a BP6 with a GTS and have problems in that I can't use any driver > 5.13 (as any newer revision hangs on bootup, perhaps disabling AGP 2X would fix that but I don't know how), and with 5.13 my 3D performance under win2k is abysmall, ie I get like less than 1/2 the number of 3DMarks than under win98 and games are unplayable except at 640x480. But it does seem that some people have been lucky in getting the GTS to work with the BP6 so perhaps you will have no problems.

ummm.... COM3 and COM1 are SUPPOSED to have the same IRQ! Thats the way the hardware is designed: COM1/3 share an IRQ and COM2/4 share an IRQ, unless one of the ports is a virtual port (ie COM3 is an internal modem, in which case you would have to just change the IRQ of the modem...). But otherwise you can only have at most 2 COM ports active (ie using an interrupt) at the same time unless you buy an extra add-in card with more com ports on it.

Well if there is no other traffic on the hub, then the only increase in time would be for the time it takes for the signal to travel through the cable and through the hub, or like 3 or 4ms. But if there is other traffic on the hub (somebody else playing a game too) then the lag will increase greatly as the packets will collide and have to be resent (only 1 person can send or receive at a time using a hub) and so you can get like 30-40ms lag or more depending on how many packets need to be resent. Keep in mind that when using ANY hub it is NOT POSSIBLE AT ALL to use full-duplexing, as that could cause an infinite number of collisions, so your network cards are operating in single-duplex mode which also will increase lag a bit. So if you have a lot of computers that need to be playing games at the same time it is best to use a switch as they eliminate most of the problems involved with hubs, and allow full-duplexing.

Ahh yes I see I misread your original post, and that you are trying to map 4 comps to 3 IPs. So you have a few options then... 1) Buy an extra IP address from cable co (which IF they let you do it, would be about $5-$7 extra per month) 2) Set up ICS (or any other type of NAT like sygate) and use it to masquerade the IPs of all the internal computers except one. Unfortunately this comes with many problems as most games do not work properly through the ICS gateway and so you may only be able to play on 1 or 2 comps at a time (which is not good). 3) Keep the setup the way you have it, and run a server on the machine without a real IP address. This way all 4 people would be able to connect to the machine BUT nobody from the internet would be able to play on your server. 4) Run the server on one of the machines with a real IP. This way people from the internet would be able to connect to the server, but the 4th comp without a real IP would not be able to (I think). These are about the only options as I see it, but perhaps someone else may be able to shed some more light on it... And regarding the switch, you can pick one up at www.buy.com pretty cheaply (look in the network products area), but I am still not quite sure if the hub is what is slowing you down (could be a bad network card or somethin)

Since you have 3 IP addresses from the cable co, there is no reason for you to need to enable ICS, and indeed you shouldn't, since many games and apps don't work well through ICS wihtout special configuration. Instead, just plug the cable modem into the uplink port of the hub and the other 3 PCs into the other ports of the hub (I assume you already did this, yes?). Then, since each machine should get its own IP address each one should work fine and should be able to access the internet/games/etc. The only cases in which you need to use ICS is if you have less IP addresses available than you have machines which need to be connected to the internet. If you enable File and Print sharing on the PCs then you should be able to see each other and share files as long as you are all in the SAME workgroup and have DIFFERENT computer names. Most (good) cable modems block port 139 (which is used for file sharing) so you should not have to worry about your whole neighborhood seeing your PCs, but just in case you should probably set it as Read-Only access or set a password. Also, about the slowness you are experiencing when all 3 of you play games, it is most likely due to your hub. Since it broadcasts each packet to all 3 of your computer and to the cable modem, many many collisions will occur which will force packets to be re-sent and thus slow down all of your games. The only way to fix this problem would be to replace the hub with a switch, although that would be a bit more expensive. I hope this is the information you were looking for...

www.mswin2k.net has released the latest vortex/vortex2 drivers for win2000 on their page. Here is a direct link to the drivers for those of you who are lazy: http://www.mswin2k.net/drivers/aureal.rar Unfortunately, these are very basic and very beta drivers with no 4 spk support and no a3d support. However, they work fine w/SMP and ACPI and work for me whereas the NT4 will not. Cheers.

Actually the drivers are already there... Look under the Hardware Compatability section of this site to see how to see the instructions on how to install the modem under win2k.

Actually you can do it right from the MMC (Microsoft Mangement Console) assuming that the computer you want to reboot is running Win2K and that you have administrative rights on it. Open up the MMC (go to Start->Programs->Administrative Tools->Computer Managment) Click on "Computer Management (Local)" Select Action->"Connect to Another Computer..." Find the computer that you want to connect to (it must be accesible through file sharing). Then once you have connected to the other comp and are managing it, right click on "Computer Management" and select "Properties" and then in the Advanced Tab click on "Shutdown." You will then be given the option of rebooting or shuting it down. Unfortunately, if the other comp isn't running Win2K or you don't have admin access, then you will have to use another program.

Are you running the remote control software? You should have a little remote icon in your tray if the remote software is working properly. Apart from that, just make sure you have a clear line of sight to the reciever and it should work fine.

Yeah I also get the static when changing channels with the new Win2K beta drivers (and the new Win98 ones as well, but not in the old win2k drivers or the old 98 ones). I think it is because it no longer mutes the line-in while changing channels, so it gets loud bursts of static in between. Anyone know how to fix this or what the e-mail for hauppage customer support is (it is nowhere on their page)? Also, while trying to fix the problem I found the file irremote32.ini in the WINNT directory which contains the definitions for all the remote commands! Its very easy to edit and so now I am using the WinTV remote to control winamp, and surf the web from my chair Very cool feature...

The distributed.net RC5 client is a program that you must download and run, so if you did not download it then you do not have it. However, programs like CPUIdle Pro and SETI@Home also can cause lockups with these drivers so if you have any idle-type processes running then disable them and see if that helps, as it has helped many people. Other than that, all I can say is try the new 3.75 drivers and see if they will work...

As I've said, the optical out doesn't work in Win2K on the Xitel card (or atleast it doesn't work for me) and there is no A3D support for Win2K yet AFAIK. So if those are your only reasons for switching then you should probably wait until better drivers for the Vortex2 come out (supposedly Aureal will release drivers 2 wks or so after the official release) because right now the SBLive drivers are a bit more stable.

The Vortex2 drivers have been SMP "compliant" (ie not crash AS MUCH) since RC3 I think. However, I don't see any reason to replace the SBLive with the Vortex2 as you don't get 4 speaker support or the digital out on it (as far as I've been able to figure out) so it really wouldn't make much difference.

If you're not having problems with the sound anymore, then its probably not sound related. Try disabling the IRQ for the USB and see if that helps. On my BP6 the MX300 works fine but I still get occasional crashes but I think they are due to the beta NVidia drivers. Win2000 is just very crash prone with games, so you may just have to put up with it...

The MX300 works perfect for me using SMP. Try taking out all your other cards and see if the problem still persists. It might be an IRQ related problem...

As EM said... make sure you disable the RC5 distributed.net client if you're running it as this has caused lockups for many other people and is not an obvious culprit. However, the latest version of the RC5 client along with the 3.69 drivers does seem to work marginally well with only locking up every other time you run a D3D app.

Why oh why would you buy a dual processor system just to send HLT instructions to it all the time? Try running something useful like distributed.net or SETI@Home to fully utilitze your processors all the time and don't worry about useless apps like CPUIdle.

Well if you got 2 speaker support working then you should consider it a success. Try unpluging the rear speaker input from the back of the speakers -- instant 4 speaker support.

I had the same exact problem and narrowed it down to having the distributed.net client running in the background always caused instant lockup in D3D. So if you're running d.net or seti or something like that, try disabling it and see if that helps.

Yes, for Halflife it really does matter if you have the retail or warez version. The warez version only works by patching the .exe file AFTER its loaded into memory (to defeat the checksum checks later in the game) which is a definite no-no under NT, so it will not work. If you want to play HL, buy the game and it will work!

Distributed.net is a program that you must download in order to run it. It is NOT installed by default with Win2K so if you don't see it listed under the Service Manager and you know that you never download and ran it, then you must have another problem.

I had a similar problem on my dual celeron system and traced it back to having the distributed.net client running caused instant lockups in any directdraw/d3d program. I disabled d.net and then everything worked perfectly (except for the damn vortex2 card... sigh). So if you have any of those idle process type programs running (GIMP, SETI, d.net, etc.) try disabling them, because as weird as it seems, it did work for me!

If you're using DHCP anywhere you might try turning it off and using static IPs for everything as that might help solve the restart problem.