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Run your webserver on port 8080 or something if you don't want to use another service. People would just have to do http://blah.com:8080 to get to it. Any of the other services would require you do to the same thing, they would just redirect port 80 to port 8080 for example on your home machine.

You should be able to check by visiting the hardware website for the board. If it's anything recent it should have usb 2.0 in it no problem.

I've been playing just fine using dx7 mode although I have a GF TI4600. Specs are: AMD 2700XP Asus A7N8X Deluxe Nforce2 GeForce 4 TI 4600 Dets 42.01 WinXP Pro w/SP1 Dx6 mode crashes nv_disp.dll sometimes so I don't use that and opengl works, but looks horrible. Currently they have a map bug with dx7 and displaying the map. Game plays fine though. I'm almost done too.

Play Planescape Tormnet. That was by far one of the best ever.

Yep, I've had both in my computer. If you have the IDE Raid, you'll have issues booting off the SCSI Cdrom. I basically just got into my Adaptec 2940U2 bios and turn the bios off but enable the scan. That way, the bios doesn't load and it doesn't try to boot. Works like a champ.

I did the install but the Splash Screen wouldn't display. I manually ran the setup and then found the .exe to startup the game. Can't recall what it is offhand since I've been playing BG2 so much lately, but I did startup the game, create a single char party and move around in the game and everything seemed to work ok.

Did you reapply the reg hack after you installed the drivers? Also, did you install the latest VIA AGP Drivers from http://www.viatech.com ? I personally ditched my VIA stuff and went intel. No hacks, no crashes, no problems.

I've yet to hit a game that doesn't run on Windows 2000. I tend to play mostly rpg/strategy games. Just installed Baldur's Gate 2 and 'Wizards and Warriors'.

Just some recommendations on my setup. I use a Promise IDE Raid Controller card and stripe to IBM 30GB 75GXP Desktars. Unless you can raid your scsi drives, you are going to kick ass in the peformance aspect if you stripe the ide drives. It's really cheap compared to the same single drive scsi solution and you can tons more performance. Price per performance is totally worth it. I think my Win2k install took about 7 minutes from start-finish. 2 IBM 30GB Deskstars + Controller = $293ish, I got them from buy.com using coupons from www.techbargains.com (great site) so each drive was about $123 and the controller was 60ish. That same price range would get you a scsi controller and a 9gb 10k drive. You get almost 7 times as much storage and tons more performance and the added benefit of a very quiet machine.

More info. what drivers are you running? what hardware? motherboard/etc.

Not everyone picks up on the search feature right away. I personally don't mind answering a question again cause it makes me look smart

Oh, I understand and have another system that I goof around with, but when I want to sit down and play some games I'll conform and use what works without any effort. I enjoy tweaking my systems and having fun, but there are times and places for that stuff.

Cheap memory is usually just that. I'd recommend going for the "better" quality stuff like the Mushkin. It runs a little faster in memory tests and it's tons more stable.

Man, that is a lot of effort. I just returned my VIA chipset stuff and got a CUSL2 mobo and bam everything stable right out of the box with the latest drivers and no tweaking at all needed. Your way seemed really long and tedious

Well, it's not secure, but you could "hide" all the files as well. I'm not sure that would get the "smart" users, but the average layman would be clueless. Just do a attrib /s -r *.* or something on the directory.