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My god this one takes the cake! hehe "This version of Quake will not install on this language version of Windows 95/NT. To find out if version localized for your operating system is available for purchase, please contact your local Activison office" hahahahaha Ok I better stop First, did you do a clean format of your drive? Second, this isn't correct at all. I can install Quake I to Quake III without any problems at all! Tell me your system config and what CD-ROM you are using SCSI, IDE, etc.

Do this. Go to Star,Run type DXDIAG and then tell me what Direct X version you have

Well, once you're married your life pretty much ends

and this seta r_ignorehwgamma 1

Quote: Originally posted by Philipp: DOS based games work in Windows 2000. Only games that use exotic memory managers doesn´t work. You find under downloads a trial version of SoundFX NT which enable sound and joystick support in DOS games. This is news to me What games work? I still can't get Dune II work! Plus Syndiacate Wars doesn't run. Anything DOS totally failed

YEEEES!!! SOMEONE ACTUALLY ASKED THIS QUESTION!!! To play DOS based games IN Windows 2000 IS NOT POSSIBLE! ONLY IN WINDOWS 95/98 ONLY! Unless someone develops a DirectX patch for Windows 2000.

Quote: Originally posted by cputnam: There are many of us that have the CD from Win95/98/NT, but want to do a CLEAN install. i.e. reformat the hard disk and start from scratch. Can this be done by purchasing the Win2000 Upgrade, making the four boot disks and then reformatting and going on from there? i.e. Will some place in the install process, Win2000 look for the qualifying product and swap the CD's to qualify? This process did work with my friends Windows 98SE upgrade. My friend had 95 and I wanted to test if it will work if we did a format. What happened was it prompted me to pop the 95 CD in and it copied some files then it promped me to return the 98SE upgrade. It was pretty much a clean install without spending $100 But Windows 2000 is a totally different story. Until someone posts a message that he has successfully did a clean install with the upgrade there is no way of knowing. I personally would buy the full version and avoid the burden if it didn't work.

Quote: Originally posted by Awaxx: What I wanted to say is Celeron is the worst thing you can have with RDRAM. And as RDRAM is the worst thing you can have in you box, Celeronis great. Anyway, I don't think you can puta Celeronon i820 (Intel lastest chipset supportin RDRAM). I'm waiting AMD dual CPU : Intel is dead(nearly). Awx From what I have read. A dual AMD Processor is going to come out around 2001. VIA is going to make the dual chipset. By that time Willimette be ahead by a long shot. I hope you have read about the new Intel Processor that is doing 1.5GHz From my experience AMD has always caused lock ups and is very unreliable I had to return my K6-2 300 because of cards my G200 locking up. V2 SLI did work though But the OS is no good if it keeps locking up every 10 mins. After that experience I am Pro-Intel. I have never had an lock up issue yet with this Dual 450. ( Q3 SMP is another story

Once you go dual, you will never go back! I can run MP3s while playing Q2 without any performace loss hehe Gotta love that!

I was under the impression that system RAM speed has to be in synchronous with the CPU system speed. For example, I have a dual Pentium II 450 CPU that runs at 100MHz (FSB). That is why I have PC-100 RAM. If I add PC-133 RAM to my system it will not perform at 133MHz (FSB) it will be 100MHz (FSB) because of the CPU slowing the ram down to 100MHz (FSB). Granted I can over clock my RAM now to 133MHz now But for people who have a Pentium III 500 they are not processing data at 800MHz and thus not benefiting from getting RDRAM because of the CPU. Is this concept correct? Or should I put this crack pipe down?

Due to the instability of AOL, Windows 2000 DOES NOT SUPPORT IT! J/k

Quote: Originally posted by MAC: Hi i have just recently upgraded to a dual P3 500 system and the motherboard i have got is the new asus P3C-D it is a great board and i even treated my self to 256 mb of PC-800 RDRAM bloody expensive but well worth it. It is superb you can if you want put up to 1024mb of PC 800 RDRAM in but it will take the usual type as well i have been running unreal tournament at 1600 x 1200 at 60 FPS+ it has to be seen to be believed it is silky smooth and absolutely gorgeous lol I just have a question to ask you. Isn't the Intel Pentium III 500 CPU designed for a 100 FSB? If I have a 100 FSB CPU and a PC-133 I usually see no difference because it is running at 100MHz. How the hell did you get your system to run at 800MHz with a 100 MHz FSB CPU? Maybe I am missing something? Some technical help please

Quote: Originally posted by Ekstreme: What drivers are you using?? The newer detonator drivers are for the latest builds of 2k ONLY. I think the last compatible tnt driver for 2128 is 3.56 (someone correct me if I'm wrong) So I think it's about time you upgraded to 2195. Good timing Ekstreme

They are optmized for the final build.

Chum tell us your system specs ------------------ Dual Intel Pentium II 450 384 MEGS of PC-100 RAM Sound Blaster Live! Promise DMA/66 Controller GeForce 256 DDR IBM Deskstar 34GXP 27.3GB DMA 66 Western Digital 20.5GB DMA 66 Intellimouse Explorer (USB) Roland Sound Canvis SC-55 3COM 3CR990-TX-97 with 3XP Processor 10/100 PCI Network Interface Card

Quote: Originally posted by Electric Brain: Thanks for your answers, you've all been a great help. Now for the killer question, i'm about to upgrade to a dual pentium III system running windows 2000 pro. What motherboard would you say i would be best of with ? This question has already been answered. Please use the search option

Quote: Originally posted by 5t3ph3n: Do you think that on Thursday all the drivers and appz for Win2k (even beta) will be released or we'll have to wait a little more?? Chaos! We will see this “ Why don’t I have 4 speaker support for Sound Blaster Live!” “ MY REFRESH RATE SUCKS IN OPENGL!” I think I will take Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday off from NT Compatible

" Bugfest! Win2000 has 63,000 'defects' Urging developers to clean up their code, a Microsoft exec says: 'How many of you would spend $500 on a piece of software with over 63,000 potential known defects?' It ships Thursday. " This sucks http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2436920,00.html?chkpt=zdnntop

Wow this question is really the cream of the crop Reboot and defrag again. Tell me what happens after you defrag for the second time.

This can be many things. Windows 2000 reboots if a fatal crash happens. I wouldn't go as far to say a hacker can control windows 2000. Windows 2000 has really good security It's probably a conflict when you run all those applications. What is your system specs?

The background activity can be pointed at mcafee anti-virus program It's always checking remember that so it does some Hard Drive checking once in awhile.

I just hope when I buy Windows 2000 this Thursday that it will atleast operate like the final build is at this moment I don't want it to become like 98. I must have seen " KERNEL32.DLL ERROR " over 1,000 times with 95 and 98. I don't want to see this with Windows 2000 But I was expecting some bugs but not 63,000! I shouldn't be so quick to come to conclusions I still have faith that it will operate well when I do my format of my primary drive

I must admit I had a really nice laugh reading this " Retail versions of Office 2000 will require a form of user registration -- or the software will disappear. " " The company is inserting a new feature into an upcoming release of its word processing software that will cause the product to malfunction if a person doesn’t register after launching it 50 times. " hahahaha I really enjoyed reading this http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2435946,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01

Try this http://www.entechtaiwan.com/ps.htm

Try with autorun enabled I have not had any problems whatsoever in install Q3 in Windows 2000. Check if you CD-ROM is being regesterd in Windows 2000 or the cd could be bad