euankirkhope

Try changing the PCI bus latency in bios, or with sandra or powerstrip (if you can). Sometimes other PC cards like matrox milleniums and the likes alter this so they get more "time", thus cutting off other devices for short periods of time. If the cards sound buffers are too small it will run out of data, and will have to wait for the other PCI devices to give up the bus. It may be worth a try. I haven't yet experienced this problem. I've only had the card (rev E by the way). I can't really think of much to say Although as soon as I re-install win98, (as winme final is absolute crap),I'll use it more. Every time there is a tiny hardware change it fails to startup crashing explorer at its initialisation. It's caused by Devcon32.dll which as it happens is a creative labs file. That explains a lot. In win2k with winamp it doesn't work at 100ms@1K buffer/block size, unlike the SB64PCI. I was disapointed as I bought so I could pretend to be a DJ. Its also a bit low on volume. Even in BeOS. Make sure the mobo bios, and other system drivers are upto date. ------------------ System Spec: Athlon 800 Gigabyte GA-7IXE F4 128Mb SSi PC100 TNT (radeon coming) Hauppauge Wintv Model 406 Realtek 8029 LAN (cnx to ISDN server) Creative ES1371 (PCI64v) Creative SBlive Value Creative 48mx CDROM Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW, 6,4,24) Maxtor 91301U3 13Gb UDMA 4 LS120

Its fine in mine! maybe your control dll is missing? ------------------ System Spec: Athlon 800 Gigabyte GA-7IXE 128Mb SSi PC100 TNT (radeon coming) Hauppauge Wintv Model 406 Realtek 8029 LAN Creative ES1371 (PCI64v) Creative 48mx CDROM Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW, 6,4,24) (cracked 1.60 bios) Maxtor 91301U3 13Gb LS120

THe sound from my SBlive value is rather disappointing. In winamp the direct sound output is crap. With my SB64 it'll run at 100ms buffer w/ 1K blocks, thats the best it can go. No jumping, stuttering, or what so ever. The sblive is far, far, worse. 300ms w/10k blocks, stuttering, lost sync (where the sound permenantly goes broken), and it skips when another song is started. Can't mix tunes with this. Still got to try the updates though. Winxx is even worse. (but its OK for games) Beos Question... Yes there are a lot of cards that have the full raw gain enabled. If there is no option in the media server that seems to alter the gain then look around on the net @ www.benews.com, www.begroovy.com forums, and www.betips.net this one isn't for you http://www.betips.net/cgi-bin/chunga.pl?ID=tip482 Too complicated http://www.betips.net/cgi-bin/chunga.pl?ID=tip187

I get that sound with my SB PCI64, most of it comes from the CDROM analogue cable, and the other outputs that are not on the mixer panel. On the PCB there is the tracks and pins for another MPC connector. When using BeOS, the slider to mute this is shown, and when it is muted with all other unnecessary lines, the noise goes away. Also the noise is made worse by having the card output volume low, and the amp volume high.

I'm sorry I give up I'm missing no facts. You just don't play games on an Andvanced Server installation. Secondly, you do not play games, and have gaming hardware on a PC that is important for work and/or business. I find it unlikely that you need/own Advanced server. Maybe you should get Pro version? Having a server on the pentium will make very little difference than on the Athlon. Windows 9x and ME is best for games. That is why it should have the Geforce and SB-live.

Thats a proplem with the DVD filesystem UDF. Goto www.adaptec.com and download udfreader, or install it from your driver CDROM if you got one with the drive. Sometime actually un-installing it fixes the problem! As a matter of fact you can use the terminal and cut and paste web page hyperlinks to get the files, as the directory structure is there and intact. Its one of those annoying things nobody really wants to do anything about. The link >> http://www.adaptec.com/support/advisor/cdrupdates/udfreaders.html

Thats good. Now all you have to do is swap the sound and video cards over. The rage pro is well suited to a server, as it doesn't stresss the PC, even in 3D mode. You only need a server for real heavy serving. SB live is a pain. Put the miscellaneous stuff on the WinME PC. Hey presto a stable PC.

I don't want to sound rude, but I assume the top notch hardware has been in the compaq system too? I mean, DB8 beta , Geforce, sb-live! All three have the capability to kill a system alone. With Intel's monopoly, and MS and Intel sleeping together, (I hope Intel CEO is female ) The intel system will be most stable quickest. Other systems will stabilize slightly later. It took my non dead K6-2 and FIC 503+ about 6 months to go from dead to almost stable. Now my current system is rock solid. It has not crashed in 3 weeks (thats as long as I've had it). This is with no beta software at all. When compaq build a system they specify only components that will work properly in one combination. Take two compaqs and mix and match, it will be like any other system, in terms of stability. Remember Intel systems have bugs too. Luckily the workarounds and patches are incorporated in standard MS updates and also final software revisions. Other companies often have to supply their own. In past times it has been known for non-intel hardware to malfunction because it did not have the characteristic "features" that entire families of intel's did. Thus MS code would fail, as the non-intel hardware was more recent. Not a fault of MS, Intel, or the manufacturer. Its just that fact of living in a commercial industry with a market leader (aka blatant monopoly). If you want, continue this trend, sell your Athlon system. I know you will (quite truthfully) benefit from the Intel's stability and someone else will get a system that a few months down the road will be as good as a any other non-retail package. Never as good as a retail, but close. If I had money to burn, I'd by a dell, like my brothers, but I can't. I don't see the need either, (well BeOS would be happy ) Fair enough its rock solid. Good value too. Advice (finally): Go back to the way the hardware was sold. Unless there is something that requires an important bug fix, put the bios back to how you got it, use MS certified, or certified official released software/drivers. The day I didtched beta stuff, was also the day my PC started working. Up[censored] drivers and software not only fixes serious blemishes, it also provides the function of squeezing those few 0.1%'s of benchmark scores, hardware shorcuts, and efficiency savings, all for that "hardcore gamer". Who needs an extra 3fps when it just locks up the CPU bus, and make the PCI bus stutter under increased latency for one greedy card, to the expense of others? When you throw in loads of fans, do people think about the noise it intoduces to the power lines? Noise induced in the cables? The disturbance of smooth air flow through the case? Look in side any high end retail system. In most circumstances you should emulate how they have built their system. Don't have 6 fans all blowing in every direction. All you need is either a case fan directly over the CPU with hood, or if necessary a CPU and Case/PSU fan. Also never leave the case off. I can't understand why an advanced server installation has a geforce and SBlive. Can you enlighten me please? In a commercial environment a server will have a net card, scsi, and a basic 2D card. Something like a cirrus, S3, these cards don't stress the bus and are that refined they're dependable. A geforce will hold a three day conference with the memory bus, just tiding up its buffers. The SB-live is an unusual necessity for notification that defrag has finished after a weekend on constant work. Advanced server is a very busy OS, even before you try that 3D CAD app, or game. Regardless of the ammount of memory you feed it, it will soak it up with the aim of optimising the services it runs. Games and user apps come last. Often in a bid to get max power/max pleasure people will add all sorts of scrapings to get more performance. You have done just this with the fancy mouse, and mixed memory ammongst other things. Get rid of the 32Mb mem. And I know you have cas set to 2 so put it back to 3! . You have a lot of bits and pieces that the NT5 innerworkings both resent and loath. The scanner, web cam, are all dying to be installed in win9x/ME. Keep it simle an clean. Thats all I can say. ------------------ System Spec: Athlon 800 Gigabyte GA-7IXE 128Mb SSi PC100 TNT (radeon coming) Hauppauge Wintv Model 406 Realtek 8029 LAN Creative ES1371 (PCI64v) Creative 48mx CDROM Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW, 6,4,24) (cracked 1.60 bios) Maxtor 91301U3 13Gb LS120 [This message has been edited by euankirkhope (edited 22 August 2000).]

re-apply dx7, was said cause the person wasn't listening and assumed you are using win98. It would make little difference anyway. What you should do however, is re-install the viatech agp driver (if its a viatech chipset on the mobo). The current ATI drivers have a known bug where the AGP driver is over written by an older version. Also the new drivers fixing the incompatibility have been released. See www.rage3d.com for more info.

Consider these reasons, and choose the most appropriate 1. AMD had WHQL it certified by MS 2. The setup looked for a specific configuration that has a known bug. You're PC didn't have it. 3. The file was written a while back (June), and has only just finished internal testing and QA. 4. File size, date stamps etc where kept the same so no repair programs wouldn't replace it. 5 As the AGP port is actually a 64-bit PCI bus the updated code was in the AMDPCI.sys file which was updated. 6 amdagp file is only a wrapper and is never updated. That way, by calling another file (like amdpci.sys) the agp is always certified. 7 one of the other files that was extracted to your system $temp$ folder when you pressed "next" is actually the file in question, but some computer virus deletes it. 8 The setup program noticed that your PC was slow enough and didn't need more baggage, (hardware specific debug code). 9 You have driver signing set to MS only. (win+break >> hardware >> driver signing) 10 you arenot logged in as an administrator. 11 Your not actually using a AGP card, just an old 64-bit PCI card with a AGP connector, IE AGP 1x). 12 your temp internet files/ web-cache is giving you an out of date file. 13 Extract the driver and copy it manually to winnt/system32/drivers and most likely destroy your installation.

WDM drivers are a no no. In fact I'm thinking all huappuage products/software are a no no. Its most likely an overlay issue, (what else could it be?). If the background is pink when its dragged, then basically the tv card is not passing the data over the PCI bus properly to the video card (a Nvidia, by any chance?). After a few bad attempts it hangs. At that level it will either cause a major pause, or a complete halt, not even BSOD. In win98, I can enlarge the picture move it, then the third change always hangs the system. Your just left with garbage, and a little picture still moving! On the bright side though, I just bought an athlon, and new mobo (replacing a K6-2), and it now works with full overlay, and some registry tweaking in win98 ). Its only a matter of time before win2k starts working. I'd give it another couple of years.

Internet connection sharing wll disable hibernation by default. Microsoft's thinking was; "why suspend a PC when its supposed to be acting as a server?" Of course if your at home, then a small delay is ok, better than having your PC on 24-7. But no it doesn't go that way Best to just download seti@home, and put those cycles to use

Its a combination of things. First of all is the ropey coding for the non 3dfx api's in unreal. Then there is the SBlive, notorious for BSODs. Try the game with out the other cards installled, network, sound. I bet it will work. (I'm strictly believing that the radeon is perfect, as I've just ordered one ) No really, there may be a small config error thats causing the errors, just change whatever you see fit, like coulour depth, opengl settings, FSAA, etc. Its those little things that make big things later. But I would blame the soundcard, for the BSODs. Get the new direct3d update for unreal. Try that. Then update the drivers, www.rage3d.com is a good ATI site. There working on comatibility stuff etc. And remember whatever anyone says, WIN2k is not yet the perfect game platform. Its only nearly there.

Of course. As long as you don't try the dos version! The versions you will want to get are winquake (no 3d acceleration, (but not really needed for 800Mhz CPUs these days)) GLQuake (openGL) But the creme-de-la-creme is the new "Unofficial GLQuake". It supports coloured FOG, and Bumpmapping, vertex skinning? (no dislocated arms). It's just too much. http://www.quake3stuff.com/glquake/ There's supposedly a 3d accelerated version of dukenukem3d in the works... lovely

sandra pro, or powerstrip. It doesn't make any difference 2x or 4x really. I have no geforce ddr

sandra pro, or powerstrip. It doesn't make any difference 2x or 4x really. I have no geforce ddr

sandra pro, or powerstrip. It doesn't make any difference 2x or 4x really. I have no geforce ddr

This may sound silly, but check your 80-pin cable has no chinks (sharp bends), and is installed the correct way. long bit to motherboard (usually blue), grey middle connector (master), short gap to black connector (secondary).

Have a look at the chip on the card if it is a brooktree 848 878 or 878a then it should work. I found that my card (huappuage wintv model 406) didn't work using generic drivers because of the nicam sound decoder. The optional sound chips are often labeled MSP40xx. The also should work practically all of the time. It is only a select few of non-generic designs that don't. In this case the supplied/manufactures custom modified drivers are the best option. Here's some links to drivers and tv apps: http://www.geocities.com/amethman/

The MVP3 is very good in win2000. Just install the via tech patches from www.viatech.com/drivers Its the 4-in-1 you want, install them all, especially the agp drivers! Secondly goto www.nvidia.com and download the latest reference drivers. That will solve your problems. Also it is important to make sure you motherboard Bios is up to date for win2000, if in ACPI mode. [This message has been edited by euankirkhope (edited 10 August 2000).]

Yeah, just a typo on my behalf too! It's crap anyway, don't know what the fuss is all about, personally. It didn't speed up linux at all... Am I on the right forum?

Who needs anything else when you have Quake1, Quake2, and for some lucky beta people Quake3 running on the nest OS in the universe?

I'd actually go for DX8NTENG.EXE as win2k already has DX7 For those of you who are win98 people, DX80ENG.exe. I don't really to be honest recommend either. 6.71 and 10.2 MB are the filesizes for each, respectfully.

Oh, by the way the reduction in temperature you were wanting, will only suffice to prolong the life of you CPU by another year (if lucky) on top of its expected 25 years or so. ... as long as its not taken into space. Did I say I've been through 3 K6-2's in 2 years? No ammount of fans saved them.

Place the fan at the very top of the case where the CPU is. That way the main source of heat will be removed before it even gets a chance to rise. Anything else will be removed by the PSU FAN, plus a little dead bit up top. For the fan outlet nearest to the CPU make a hood that collects the air being passed through the heat sink, and/or fans. That is how it is on a new very fast Dell, I happened to be opening at the time. If the side fan is below the CPU, its pretty much not much use blowing out in tower config. Basically air is sucked in the bottom, and goes out the side. When the case is its side, hot air collects in a stagnant area at the top. This is when we have the side fan blowing out. If you really must have a side fan in tower config (sigh), then set to draw inwards, just make sure the intake and exaust levels are balanced. (number of fans, air flow capacity etc. No point having a tiny intake, and huge exhaust fans ) If you want to do something creative, then goto www.thecardcooler.com [This message has been edited by euankirkhope (edited 05 August 2000).]