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To set up my RAID system, I simply used partiton magic (in dos mode) to copy my win2000 partition onto the RAID drive, then disabled the old drive, so win2k didn't see it, and mess up the drive letters. Worked a treat!

Useful info for other Radeon Users: You may also have noticed that after installing drivers, TVout may come on if you hav ethat capability. This will also prevent you changing the resolution, and more importantly change the Refresh rate. You have to turn it off, by pressing the power button on the TV inside the Displays tab in advanced settings under decktop properties. A second common problem is when the monitor is not detected, the refresh rate will be set to 60Hz. You must tell the PC what refresch rate you want to cap the monitor too. Goto desktop properties / advanced / displays. Click on the active monitor button. Untick "Use DDC Informaiton" and in the combo boxes below, set your monitors maximum resolution, and the maximum refresh rate you want to allow. Remember that with monitors, the higher the resolution you pick, the refresh rate reduces. So pick a value that will prevent you setting a high resolution and a high refresh rate. Most new monitors will upwards of 120Hz at 640x480, At 1600x1200, that is pretty rare!

I'm also a fan of the 8500. Just be careful what type you get. The fastest best is a Real ATI 8500 Retail. The OEMS, are pretty much all slower speed core and ram versions. They are now called (but not always) the Radeon 8500 LE, and there is also the unoffical LE version of the LE, making that a Radeon 8500 LELE The retail has 275Mhz synchronous clock rates, followed by the LE @ 250Mhz, followed by the LELE @ 230Mhz. All have the same features, and pretty much perform just as good. You can flash the bios to make the LE's perform like the Retails. Good card overall

there is no such thing as an incompatible harddrive!!! You can not just through in a new harddrive and copy some file over. The drive has to be setup by NT for it to be readable. IE install boot sector, partition, format. First of all, turn of UDMA in the bios, until you have installed windows, and installed the motherboard drivers. Also make sure you are not using an 80 pin cable on the drive. It should be 40. At what stage in the install does this occur? I suggest when you attempt the install again, at the drive setup page, delete all the partitions and create a new one. Fat32 or NTFS it doesn't matter.

Quote: Does anybody remember ATI fury 3D MAX that has 2 Rage 128 pro chips and 64 Mb of VRAM? It is gone now. It is a great card. It looks neat too! but they are all on the return shelves back in the stores! Because ATI was too lazy to actually build a driver that works with the card and the system doesn't freeze! Lazy is the wrong word. Tecnically Impossible is more fitting. bascially they needed MS to make a patched version of some system drivers to make win2k see the PCI bridge correctly on the Fury MAXX. MS couldn't make it work either, so a Win2k driver never emerged, although a driver appeared that simply used the 1 chip, ignoring the other. As for drivers, I can personally say that the drivers at ATI have improved massively since the rage pro days. Except for the DVD player has never worked for me in win2k (but ATI didn't write that). Seems to be an incompatiblity with my mobo, win2k, and the DMA mode used by the player. It works in 9X and XP The only point to note is that the drivers have been fairly solid, Most of my scene demos work, except for those hardcoded to the Nvidia versions of OGL and D3D The performace is always the exact same with new releases. No Detonator style injections. However rumour has it the Radeon 2 will ship with Unified Radeon drivers. Ditching the legacy Rage128 code. Although I doubt it will happen to be honest. Or it will just be the current drivers that happen to be compatible with the Radeon 1, so that makes them "unified".

Best Fix is to remove the POS.

the HDD that has already got Win2k probably needs the bootloader re-installed and re-mapped to the correct IDE Channel. Download bootpart from www.winimage.com and run from a dos bootdisk (www.bootdisk.com) if you don't have one. Run the program, and follow the instructions, and you will have a bootable system. gernerally win2k doesn't mind being radically changed hardware wise. if you start up in safe mode, and delete all the old hardware, then reboot with a clean (ish) system.

I had the same problem tring to do an Upgrade. Delete the winnt or windows folder, and run setup direct from the CD. If you are already doing this, then try again, then again.

Anyone not made by via I would suppose. cry:

DX5 is available (very unofficially) for NT. It's winging it's way to you now.

I have to agree my radeon is very good in win2k, except for the DVD app. It just doesn't work. The problem has been narrowed down to the IDE controller, the DVD app, and the drive. For some reason the ATI DVD player won't accept that DMA is enabled on the drive. It works perfectly in winxp with the same drivers, so I guess the DMA problem has been fixed. In XP the IDE properties show the DMA mode as something like DMA multiword mode 2. Whereas win2k just says DMA enabled. SO I guess it's related to that. Works fine in win9x too.

I nearly bought one instead of re-ordering a replacement radeon. It was a very close decision. I got the radeon, but one day I'll get a Kyro in all its "made in britain" glory.

yup me got a CCI Smart joy delux, and it rocks. You can also make your own parallel port adaptor which includes force feedback functionalilty. See the details at www.ziplabel.com

If I see it I'll let you know.

Quote: Perth!!! Is that Perth Australia or Perth Scotland??? In regards to your problem - /me shrugs me somwhere near Glasgow, Scotland.