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Hey jdulmage - cut out the elitist rhetoric. If you review many of the posts, these types of threads are caused by folks insulting newbies who understandably retaliate. People are free to their opinions, as wrong as they may be, even if they don't agree with yours. You, and others, are then free to ignore them if they are not acceptable to you. ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 320 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value All In Wonder Radeon 32MB ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail

Maybe because it is already incorporated into the RC of SP2 that you are running??? ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 320 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value All In Wonder Radeon 32MB ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail

Are you using a usb keyboard? ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 320 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value All In Wonder Radeon 32MB ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail

http://www.wininformant.com/display.asp?ID=3043 It's not beta2 for once and for all - it is pre-beta2. EVERYONE will know when beta2 is released because, like beta1, beta3, rc1, rc2, etc... it is a fairly major milestone. MS would be releasing it with a little more fanfair. ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 320 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value All In Wonder Radeon 32MB ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail

I suspect he realizes that. In answer to the question, the UltraSCSI will be faster but for the added price, I suspect that running the Ultra100 off of a Promise Ultra100 controller will satisfy your needs and the speed difference will be neglible. I would not want to lock myself into SCSI unless I were doing a lot of vid cap (and the ultra100 should be fine for that as well). You should be able to get more than a 30 gig ata100 plus an ata100 card for the price of the SCSI hard drive. Check pricewatch.

PsychoSword - didn't your mother ever tell you that if you don't have anything nice to say, then not to say anything at all ? Now, apologize to ~Aragorn~ for being so rude.

My suspicion is that it is related to the SMP setup. The fact that your Radeon was on irq 18 is rather strange. I would have strongly recommended making a Ghost backup of your current hard drive, and reinstalling Windows 2000. There is something wacky going on with the detection of devices as it should not have been necessary for Win2k to ***ign that irq, rather than irq 11. I have Windows 2000 installed in ACPI mode, btw. ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 320 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value All In Wonder Radeon 32MB ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail

Stephen - seems as though you didn't give the card much of a chance. I have an AIW Radeon (ex-Voodoo3 user) and have been quite happy with it. However, if you only used the drivers on the cd, that may have been your problem. Did you clean out all remnants of your old drivers as well? My setup is pretty generic intel, and have not had a SINGLE crash attributable to the Radeon in the month since I purchased it. I am running the 3073 drivers that can be downloaded from www.rage3d.com. BTW, even the special purpose drivers from ATI's site work very well, though are not as fast in games. ATI is working on unified drivers for the Radeon that will not be based on the old Rage drivers (as the current ones are), so are being rewritten from the ground up. They are rumoured to be much faster and should be released within the next couple of weeks. With respect to the original poster, what driver version are you running? Any irq conflicts? Is the problem due to overclocking the Celeron? Did you install DirectX8? ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 320 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value All In Wonder Radeon 32MB ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail [This message has been edited by Shrink (edited 28 December 2000).]

When you right click on MY Computer, do you have an option for Manage? If so, access the Computer Management Console from there and see if going at it that way works. Alternately, do a repair install of Windows 2000 and see if that fixes it. You might want to log on as Administrator (even though you might have an Administrator privileges) and see if you can get at them there. Did you by any chance disable any services to tweak Windows 2000? ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 320 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value All In Wonder Radeon 32MB ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail

Tweakui has a setting to change the location of default folders. Find the latest version from MS. ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 320 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value All In Wonder Radeon 32MB ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail

Are you logged on as an administrator? ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 320 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value All In Wonder Radeon 32MB ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail

Agreed - it seems senseless to edit the registry manually when there is a product (a good and free one at that) that does it for you more quickly and even saves disabled keys. Startup Control Panel is a great little program. Shrink

<Applause> There appears to be an undercurrent among some users on this board of elitism concerning who should and shouldn't be using Windows 2000. Perhaps it stems from (a) the fact that they may be sysadmins in their work and frustrated with endusers messing their systems up or ( folks who downloaded the latest and greatest OS and now gloat about their superior knowledge. In either case, the best help is to educate by example. The one biggest hurdle in dealing with the IT folks where I work is their attitude towards the enduser (i.e. all endusers are morons). Consequently, I have worked out "ways" of working around them <g>. It troubles me to see this board, which has been a great resource over the past 1.5 years for me, becoming similar to that with which I have to work on a daily basis. I also notice that there is an attitude developing that the more posts you have under your name, the more qualified you are. At the same time, the number of posts appear to be declining as the months go by. Maybe this could be due to: Windows 2000 becoming old news for many people; a tone that is being set within the forum members that is less productive than existed a year ago; or increasing frustrations over the sluggishness of this forum when it comes to accessing it <g>. You decide... ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 320 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value All In Wonder Radeon 32MB ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail [This message has been edited by Shrink (edited 22 December 2000).]

:-) I know you aren't a newbie which is why it surprised me that by typing Outlook and Hotmail in the search dialogue, that thread was found immediately. Damn gremlins in the forum software <g>. Shrink

Well, I sure am glad to see that the spirit of camaraderie is still alive and well and living in this section of the board:-) ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 320 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value All In Wonder Radeon 32MB ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail

http://www.ntcompatible.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/000193.html Maybe you could use the search function <g>. ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 196 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value Voodooo3 3000 AGP ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail

Not quite accurate - in fact, afaik, not accurate at all :-) DirectX8 installs MS's files that permit d3d, directdraw, directsound, directinput, etc... but do not update device drivers for individual components (e.g. sound cards, video cards, mouse drivers, etc...). If you haven't done it already, install DirectX8 and then LW3 for Win2k because the DX8 install does something funky to the directsound settings (if you have a voice modem, suddenly it becomes listed as the primary sound device). After that, install LW3 for Win2k and make sure that SB Live Wave Device is listed as the preferred playback device in control panel/sounds and multimedia/audio. ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 196 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value Voodooo3 3000 AGP ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail

Maybe your computer telling you something? I almost bsod'ed on Wild Wild West as well :-) Shrink [This message has been edited by Shrink (edited 18 November 2000).]

I can tell you that they worked perfectly for me, BUT I had DX8 installed. Have you installed DX8? Shrink

Does anyone know whether Beta1 has support built-in for the highpoint controller (on a BE6-II mobo)? In other words, do I need to F6 during setup or will it be automatically detected? I understand that the Promise Ultra66 is automatically detected. TIA! ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 192 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value Voodooo3 3000 AGP ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail

Inferno - I am not questioning jdmulage's helpfulness or how nice a guy he is or is not. I am suggesting that we try and establish a little civility on all sides (including those who criticize him) and kaibosh the flame wars and petty back-biting that has been more prevalent for the past few months. Shrink

jdmulage - that being the case, why didn't you settle the problem on icq rather than bring it back into this forum? Shrink

If it is Whistler Personal Beta1, afaik you can not do an upgrade install from Windows 2000. The Pro, Server, and Advanced Server versions of Whistler will permit an upgrade install, but I am not sure whether or not MS has released those yet. Shrink

Try deleting the newly detected devices without installing drivers for them (i.e. hit cancel), then remove from device manager each of the original devices. Then permit them to be redetected on the next boot and hopefully it will only do it once. Let us know what happens. ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 192 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value Voodooo3 3000 AGP ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail

Uninstall = deltree /y c:\winnt OR Uninstall = format c: / Sorry for the bad news but there is no uninstall in NT-Land. ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 192 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value Voodooo3 3000 AGP ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail