euankirkhope

ACPI is good if it works, Bad if it doesn't. In my case it's a compromise, between having no com ports and working com ports. I chose the first! (mainly because hibernation was fun for a while, and my TNT a couple of bios' ago refused to work without it.) EG: ------------------ System Spec: FIC VA-503+ 1.1b bios JE439 CPU Current Limiter Disabled AMD K6-2 550 (300 when I talk to FIC tech support) 128Mb SSi PC100 STB Velocity 4400 16Mb AGP PAL TV-Out Hauppauge Wintv Model 406 Realtek 8029 LAN Creative ES1371 (PCI64v) 56.6K (AkA 44k) ISA Modem Creative 48mx CDROM Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW, 6,4,24) (cracked 1.60 bios) Maxtor 91301U3 13Gb LS120 and com and lpt i/o conflict error during bios startup. Hardware fault caused by win2k beta3 and dodgy bios, now irrepairable. Serial IO card

turn off pnp, and maybe try allocateing irqs for each pci nic slot separatly in bios. It may work, it may not.

goto www.adaptec.com and install the UDFReader drivers, and any other stuff. ASPI (Advanced SCSI Programming Interface) is used to make reading removeable media (not always scsi hardware) easy to use in programs. Powerdvd can't find it. Either copy and expand it from win2000 CD, or download scsi drivers from adaptec (if your drive is SCSI). Most likley its gone missing Check powerdvd is using the correct drive, and its being registered properly and DMA is on/off (on via boards when its unchecked its on! and vice-versa), thats device manager/dvd to find DMA.

I had suspicions about a memory leak with the beta too. The beta would crash (badly) about every 5 minutes. It was very unstable. At least it unstalled properly I downloaded 5.5. at work and it seems ok, but slow. However it is a p200 I'm not going to install it until its on a CD at home.

The agp port is an extended 64-bit PCI bus. 1X speed AGP is simply a 64-bit PCI bus with a different connector. PCI slots are bus 0 (computer/electronics counting starts at 0 not 1) And the via 4 in 1 are for win2k, NT4 and 9x.

Any fancy USB stuff on the monitor? Does the Elsa card actually work? Is there a new bios for it? select the unknown device and try forcing it to take some drivers like SVGA video, or elsa drivers! Its worth a try. Also do a search through winnt/inf for 04E6 it may be part of the PCI (and AGP) device code (subvendor etc) that identifys the chip. If the 04E6 (or what ever) isn't there then it means windows has never heard of it. Or it may be either the bios on the chip is faulty, thus the card can't be identified, or secondly its one of those mad CAD cards or whatever with the texas instuments processors on them. Not standard like, you know

It’s nothing to so with memory chips or electrical signals, all it is, is the NT memory management dividing up certain areas of memory for each program, service and process. The program you are running is trying to "Read" memory in an area it is not allowed to. You get the same but with Write errors. Basically it’s the Operating System protecting itself from bad apps and malicious program/user, thus security and stability is retained. Try to close some programs/services, if it happens inconsistently. If it happens with the one program, doing the same thing, then perhaps there is something running that is creating this error via that app.

This question has been asked a millon times on this forum (half by me) Always use the search function first. Anyhow; Remove/move the card that shares an interupt with the AGP card (almost always PCI slot 1), Make sure bios is upto date set computer type to ACPI in system properties >> hardware >> computer

You don't need to re-install win2k to use ACPI. My tnt won't work without it. Just goto system properties >> hardware >> device manager >> comuter, upgrade the drivers of Standard PC to ACPI (select from known drivers). ------------------ System Spec: FIC VA-503+ 1.1b bios JE438 CPU Current Limiter Disabled AMD K6-2 550 (300 when I talk to FIC tech support) 128Mb SSi PC100 STB Velocity 4400 16Mb PAL TV-Out Hauppauge Wintv Realtek 8029 LAN Creative ES1371 (PCI64v) 56.6K (AkA 44k) ISA Modem Creative 48mx CDROM Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW, 6,4,24) Maxtor 91301U3 13Gb LS120 and com and lpt i/o conflict error during bios startup. Hardware fault caused by win2k beta3 and dodgy bios, now irrepairable.

I think what you have done is install NT on a partition over 6.4GB (1024 cylinders) This requires "int13" support from the bios, and Microsoft boot loader, of which the latter is the problem. Just make sure NT is installed before the 6.4gb point, and it will boot.

I get that quite a lot with my memorex trimax usually ejecting the cd/dvd then re-inserting it, and refreshing the explorer window (f5) works, sometimes not. It even effects the other cd drive for some reason. Update the udf filesystem reader drivers from www.adaptec.com or ftp://ftp.adaptec.digisle.net/cd_recording_software/windows/udfread_v103_install.exe That may help.

Its most likely created by the cdrom stopping, then having to spin back up. Some cdroms have the timeout (due to inactivity) set at a rediculously low time, like 15-30 secs. An ideal drive will spin at high speed for about 1-2 mins then reduce to maybe 2-4x speed for another 5 mins before stopping. You can sometimes get programs/driver addons that can adjust this (for good drives that is). Also maybe try adjusting the CDrom cache size or getting a CDrom cache program, that way the cache will keep the data stream going until the drive spins back up. It could also be things such as network timeouts and IDE controller timeout errors caused by small device errors and also the power management settings. Check to see whether your PC is trying to put the Harddrives to sleep, or check in the event veiwer for error messages (in administrative tools). Good Luck!

It doesn't matter how many fans you have, all IC's have they're thermal limits Plus there are other aspects of cooling and overclocking to consider... Note that you are also overclocking the entire card, the memory, the di-electric between the tracks, RC filters become inaccurate, resistors heat up capacitors dry out, and the card generally wears out. The vibration and heat from lots of fans will create microfractures in the joints and tracks, thus signal noise will increase and the actual signal will eventually disapear into the background. Also if by chance the resonant frequency of all these fans matches that of the cards natural frequency it will resonate and eventually snap in two. Not to mention the electrical noise and inductance introduced to the power supply. Note: a driver re-install usually fixes this.

Take it like this. You can have a choice: High Latency (slow) and Stable: This is the NT system. By preventing direct access to hardware, dodgy codes and commands can be filtered out before hanging the system. The full 32-bit OS is in its self more efficient, and stable. And a pleasure to work with in office packages and intensive applications such as 3d rendering and the such. It has excellent opengl support, which is perfect if you only play Quake III and halflife. Fast and 50% risk of losing everything in 5 minutes: This will be Win9x. Applications such as DirectX games and real-time applications especially Sound and Midi applications (such as Cubase VST) are better off in this domain (but would rather be in BeOS ) where at least you can almost not notice the non consistant timing. But never the less its far better that the NT kernel. Where NT has a latency in the hundreds of miliseconds Win9x can work below 100ms. I never do University work in Win9x its just not worth it. As a final note I must say that I know you have used both extensively, and that you already know the answer so just make up you mind, or dual boot.

What exactly do you mean? To read DVD's you need to have support for the UDF filesystem, you can get this at www.adaptec.com it should also be in the drivers supplied, (somewhere). Thats all you need to read DVDs like a normal cdrom. To play movies you need the above, plus a decoder. This can either be hardware (a card) or software. Its most likly you have a cord such as the hollywood, or creative DX2 or 3, the drivers are still in beta, so the supplier have probably not included them, until they are finalised. However you can download the beta drivers (with the odd crash or 2, from the device maufacturer) For software decode, programs like powerdvd ( http://www.cyberlink.com.tw/ )and windvd are the latter. I recommend powerdvd. I don't recommend windvd, as the demo destroys both my win9x and win2000 installations, and I've done it stupidly lots of times! But if you've got a new PC you shouldn't those sort of problems. Make sure you have NT upto date with the latest service packs. I have sometimes found that installing sp3 before the latest one fixes the odd problem here and there, but your NT cd should come with these already pre-installed nowadays, I don't know because I have the first release of NT4, no patches supplied! More info at http://saturn.spaceports.com/~dvdsoft/ [This message has been edited by euankirkhope (edited 30 June 2000).]

Win2000 is working nicely, no problems here

Look in the event veiwer for the precise details of what is happening. Most likey that you now have a crater in your harddrive I used partition magic on one of my drives to shrink the actual partition past the bad bit (the first 50MBs, except bootsector was OK )

If you just re-run setup, the setup program will only change the registry settings that it sees as wrong. IE the hardware settings. You could try uninstalling all your hardware from device manager (after making a backup) then doing the swap, so when the PC restarts it has to redetect everything, it works in win9x, sometimes in NT4, but who knows with NT5. I'd give it a shot There is usually never a good reason for a re-format, unless the filesystem is acting up. I had a problem a while back where the setup would crash at the very end of registering components with a fastfat.sys error, thats the sort that warrants a reformat, as the last resort. However do note that I havent figured out how you re-import your user profiles properly. If you do, tell me! Win2000 tends to make new copies with the Computer name as an extension IE Administrator.YOURCOMPUTER-WIN2000 but most data can be copied into the new profile name like favourites, cookies, start menus etc.

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Ha ha, Plug&pray, thats funny OK, well we have to take into consideration your geforce It will take up an IRQ, which is shared with PCI slot 1 (its direct neighbour). The next slot probably shares with your IDE controller. Also disable UDMA in bios (until the system is 100%) it is known to cause problems during install. The last slot probably shares with an ISA slot. So, best bets is to look for a bios update (which mentions ACPI). But for now, goto system properties and select computer, and update the driver, select Standard PC, and reboot. Or you can press F6 during install (blue stage). There's probably 1 million other possibilities but the above is most likely. Also if you have an award bios, make sure you have a versio that doesn't have the "big disk" error, unlikely, but possible. Also make sure you have installed the via chipset patch! www.viatech.com/drivers this one is very very important! Also if you have installed patches, check you have not installed the tiger 100 patches, remember one is an intel BX, the other via apollo Pro 133. I found this bios update that looks like its just for you TYAN S1834 Tiger 133 Rev. 1.03c Changes in this BIOS : Improve PCI and AGP performance get it @ http://www.tyan.com/support/html/b_tg_133.html

well ntldr of course do a dir /a /p to check, as its hidden. (in dos) Bootpart will build a new boot.ini if needed. Also make sure ntdetect.com is there as well. If its not there it's in the I386 folder uncompressed either on your harddrive (only if your lucky, or well prepared for re-installls) or on the cd.

The first one used to always occur in nt4, and was a right "£"£$%%*, basically you have run out of registy space, and need to allocate more, this is in the system properties/Advanced/performace options/virtual memory. I don't know if it still works. The second could just be a win2k derivitive or the first error.

Is the file there? If so then use bootpart from http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm to repair it from dos/win9x If not you'll need to either get the file off the cd, or a bootdisk, then put it at root (c:\) Try putting the CD back in and select repair, again. If you've messed about with partition magic or something similar if you put a windows partition past the 6.4GB point (1024 cylinders) it can not be booted.

Definitely, now we know who's responsible!

What is the make, model, details please. Have you selected the correct power input ?(atx/at) Does the PC beep? Does the Harddrives spin up? Does the Mobo have onboard Video? --> is it enabled/disabled? Do any lights light up? Do they flash? Have you connected the reset or suspend switches incorrectly? Is the CPU set at the wrong speed? Is your K6-2 an Afx, Afr Ahx? Does this mean it draws too much current? --> Try temporarily reducing the CPU/system speed.