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Here is the slide set from my networking class. It provides a good explanation of how IP addresses work, and the ideas behind classless and classful addressing schemes. http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/shivkuma/teaching/fall2001/ccn2001-slides5a.pdf AlecStar, these ip's (10.* 192.* etc) are considered non-routable because they are reserved for internal lan use. For example, lets say that you used 216.239.* ip ranges behind your router. If you wanted to go to google, its address (216.239.53.99) falls into the same class as your internal network and you would never get there because your router would believe 216... was an internal address. To prevent this, these "non-routable" ip addresses were set aside. By using them on your internal network, you can be guranteed that no host on the internet will have an ip address in your internal range.

anyone have a problem where they cant d/l windowsupdates. as soon as i try to dl/install them, they dont d/l and i get an error saying that win-updates failed, and to email ms. anyone seen this?

unfortunatly, win2k doesnt have single user mode like linux, but you can reset the pw. info is here: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html basically, this boot disc loads linux, mounts the ntfs drive, and can insert an updated password into the SAM file. Ultrix

does anyone know what version of directx comes with sp3. 8.1b i hope.

One cant judge drivers based on framerate alone. Ive been programming an opengl win32 program for the past few months. When it came time to put the finishing touches on, i found out that ONLY the nvidia 28.32 and higher drivers supported the opengl extensions that i was using. So, just a word of advice, nust because new drivers perform slower, they might support newer things (like wgl_nv_render_texture) in my case. read the nvidia documentation about rendering to textures, they say that only 28.xx and higher support the extensions required. Ultrix

just thought i would say that i dont like the new banner on the left of the page. Ultrix

Last xmas, i bought 2 sticks of generic 128mb pc133 ram for my vp6. It worked fine for 3 weeks, and all of a sudden i started getting random bluescreens. They mostly dealt with corrupt files and the such. After searching forums and such i found out that the ram was my problem. So i got 1 stick of crucial 256mb and no more bluescreens.But i have never heard of crucial ha ving problems, thats why i bought it.

I agree, performance will be the same. 1 512mb stick will take up one less slot leaving room for expansion. However, it is cheaper to get 2 sticks of 256 than one of 512. So do u want to spend less, or spend more and leave room for upgrades in the future???

You guys are paranoid idiots. If you take the total system ram, subtract the amount used for the system cache, u get the available. Available is just what is free and not in use. That is why everytime you run msinfo32 u get a different number. If you press ctrl-alt-del and go to task manager, change to the performance tab and look at the physical memory box. It lists total, available, and system cache, and believe it or not, system cache + available = total :-) Ultrix

It basically said that the devilsown release was cracked and that this new group has released a true final corp that is untouched by anyone after it came out of microsoft. They also claim it runs "smoother". I was skeptical and had someone do a CDCheck to compare the devilsown iso with this new iso, and evedently, every file checked out. There were the exact number of files, and they were all exactly the same in content and size. So I'm not really worried. Ultrix

I have a wintv theater and this is my experience. I used the old 220 wdm drivers that didnt support the wintv and they worked fine. The feature that was lacking was controlling the onboard audio decoder (it decodes dolby pro logic so its special). The video however worked fine. Under audio options, there was no advanced tab to configure the prologic. So, when i changed channels, the audio would flake out. However, I was using a vcr as my tuner, running a rca line for video and plugging the vcr's audio right into my soundcard, bypassing the broken audio support. These new drivers do have the advanced audio button to configure the dolby prologic and i have had no audio glitches like before, so i am gonna say they offically support the wintv-theater. Ultrix

The simple answer: mixing will work in your case. The technical answer: the PCxxx rating of ram is the speed it is guranteed to operate at. PC66 ram rould run at 66mhz, PC100 will run at 100mhz and 66mhz, and PC133 will run at 133, 100, and 66mhz. The speed of your ram is determined by your front side bus speed. Therefore, if you are running 100mhz fsb (which i think you are because you had pc100 in there origionally), when you added the stick of pc133, it is running at pc100 speed. SO in theory you should see ZERO performance by swapping out the pc100 for the pc133. However, there are other ram specifications that make ram faster and thats the CAS rating. CAS2 ram will run faster than CAS3 ram, because it takes 2ns to do a ram refresh, not 3ns. (dram's design is nice in that it takes one transistor and one cap for each bit one wishes to write. however the with a cap, this requires the storage modules to be recharged, if you write a 1 or 0 to a bit in the ram and dont recharge it, the data disapears as the cap looses charge. The CAS rating is how long it takes for the refresh. (and some other timing issues too). Basically, 2ns is faster than 3ns so cas2 ram is faster. If your pc100 is cas3, and you replace it with your pc133, run it at 100mhz fsb and cas2 setting, it will be slightly faster. The bset thing to do is use a much ram as you can, and tweak the cas settings till you find a stable one (try 2, if it doesnt work, go back to 3). But if all your ram is rated at cas2, make sure thats what you are running, you will benefit. The other thing you can do to get more speed is this: Your kt133 chipset runs 133mhz fsb. If you can unlock your 1ghz athlon, drop the multiplier down to 7.5, and run it at 133mhz fsb. The net processor clock speed change will be zero, but the bandwidth to the processor will be 33% larger. This will force your ram to run at 133mhz also, giving you more ram bandwidth. However, your existing pc100 ram might not run at 133mhz. But the overall increace in bandwidth will result in faster performance. In my opinion, the best thing to do is run 133mhz fsb with 256mb of ram. If you can't, put as much pc100 as you can into your system and run it the way it is. It will work just fine. Hope i didnt confuse you too much Ultrix

Here is something else you can try, its called "DScaler". Its a tv viewing application that has a built in line doubler and a bunch of deinterlacing filters, along with noise reduction and some other filters. All i have to say is WOW. It makes standard tv look like a digital tv, and on a copmuter monitor it really shines. Im running the latest build of Dscaler (3.20) and the older versions of the WDM drivers on hauppauges page (the ones before the new ones that were posted yesterday. IM in the USA so im running NTSC (WinTv Theater). In the hardware setup i selected "Standard BT878" as the chip and "Phillips NTSC" as the tuner. Do a channel scan and be amazed. There is no remote support but if you are clever you can rewrite the ini file from the ir32.exe installation to get the hauppauge remote to run dscaler (i havnt gotten time to do it, but ive had the remote running winamp). if you have any knowledge of computers you could probably figure it out, it is very straightforward. Dscaler can be found here: http://deinterlace.sourceforge.com check out some of the screen shots, its preety amazing. Ultrix

Im running a VP6 and this is what you have to do: Make sure you have the latest bios (im running yt (its a beta but works great). you can get it from www.vp6-board.com then go into bios and make sure to Set MPS Spec. to 1.1 (its in advanced options i believe). When you run winxp setup, when it says "press f6 for third party drivers" press f5, in a minute a little menu will come up and allow you to select what kind of computer you have, select "MPS Multiprocessor". DO NOT select ACPI Multi as WinXP will NOT work. This is a known problem on the VP6 that MS has yet to fix. Now that your are running MPS multi with MPS spec 1.1, let xp install. Next, after you can log into it, go to device manager and view the properties on the raid controller. you should notice that the driver was provided by MS, not highpoint. You have to check update driver, select it from a list, and use the driver 1.0.3b (i think thats the right version, its the one that came with my mobo). If you dont force winxp to take the driver it won't. After you update it, check back the driver info to make sure it took. With this driver i have no problems in winxp Ultrix.

if you arn't using your raid controller, disable it. otherwilse you need to make sure the winxp drivers are updated. WinXP ships with raid drivers for the HPT370, but they are slow and caused me problems with my sound (slowdowns when reading the hd's). if you go into device manager and view driver info on the raid controller, you will most likely see it is made by MS. They were also sneaky and to update a driver, if it doesnt detect a digital signature, it wont automatically install it. You have to select the advanced route, and dont tell it to detect your hardware, you have to manually select the inf and select the hardware from the list. Im using raid drivers 1.0.3b on my VP6 with no problems.

check out the hercules forums: http://forum.hercules.com others have mentioned using different drivers with that card to get it to work better. i dont have one so i cant help you, but you will find answers on hercules' forum. Ultrix

This is just an exmaple of how much trouble product activation is going to cause customers, and I experienced it first hand. I signed up for the WinXP Beta program and just yesterday, i got around to installing RC1. Here are my system specs: Abit VP6 Dual PIII 700CC0 @ 1001MHz 256Mb Ram Geforce2 GTS 3Com 3C905 WinTV Theater Gametheater XP RealMagic Hollywood Plus Adaptec 2940U2W Well, RC1 installed fine, and on the first reboot after installation, WinXP prompted me to activate it. Knowing that I have a legitamate copy of WinXP, I clicked register over the internet, and in less than two seconds, it was activated. I thought, well, that was easy. So I got into WinXP and got ready to install updated device drivers for my hardware. The first thing I did was go to device manager and see what was installed. WinXP installed working drivers for my Geforce2, SCSI Card, and NIC just fine. My sound card was listed in the "Sound, Video and Game Controllers" as "Unsupported Crystal Audio Sound Device". I also had three entries in the "Other" field. There were two "Multimedia Controller" listed and a "Multimedia Video Controller" listed. I knwe these devices were for my DVD Decoder and my TV Tuner. I proceeded to update my Nvidia drivers and install my Gametheater XP drivers.All was still good. Next I installed the Hauppauge WDM Drivers for my Tv Tuner. I restarted, and on the next boot, WinXP said that I needed to activate the OS with Microsoft. Aparently, installing the TV Tuner drivers was enough to trigger WinXP into thinking it was installed on a different computer. That was really bad, considering the expansion cards were installed, just unrecognized by the OS with working drivers. So now I have to call Microsoft, explain them the situation, and get my copy of WinXP reactivated. Now my question is, if a simple driver installation for my WinTV caused WinXP to deactivate, what is to say a simple ram upgrade or hard drive addition won't do the same. My only advice to other WinXP users out there is to install all of your drivers first, then activate the OS, otherwise you could wind up in the same situation.

Well, I called MS last night, spoke to the people and got my installation reactivated. The whole process took less than 5 min, but thats not the point!!! I did ask the guy I spoke with if my situation was a common occurance. He told me he has recieved neumerous calls of users having the same problem. Go figure. I just hope they get this problem fixed before RTM.

In win2k, I used to be able to share specific folders on my hd, but only to specific acounts that i designated. For Example, i used to share my whole d drive to an acount that i used with my laptop, and i would share a general folder to the public, therefore, the public couldnt see my whole hard drive. however, in toying with winxp file sharing, it seems you either share it or you dont. Is there any way to share a folder to a specific username/password like in win2k?? Thanks, Seth

I know that activation shouldnt work that way, but it did. If anyone knows how i go about filing a bug report, let me know. this problem sucks, and i would like to see it get fixed. Ultrix

I had similar problems with that error on my VP6. Although i was getting every BSOD under the sun, that one was very popular. I traced it down to using crappy ram. Once i got rid of the generic stuff and bought some nice crucial memory the bsod's havnt returned. I see you are overclocking. Try lowering your memory timings (go to cas3 if you are at cas2). I know win2k caches everything thru ram and is very picky when something comes out corupted, it could be possible that this new drive can read data faster than the older one and the memory cant quite keep up. Good luck, Ultrix

I have an Abit VP6 with dual 1ghz runnin win2k. Im booting off a 9.1g u2w scsi drive and have two 45gb ibm 75gxp's running in raid-0 thru the onboard controller (pri-master and sec-master)as a storage drive. after seeing how much faster the ide raid is over my scsi drive, i want to get another raid-0 array with two 20gb ibm 60gxp's to boot off of and replace my 9.1gb drive. my question is what is the best way to set this up, i have three options: Option A: Run the 40gb stripe on primary master and primary slave Run the 90gb stripe on secondary master and secondary slave Option B: Run the 40gb stripe on primary master and secondary master Run the 90gb stripe on primary slave and secondary slave Option C: Get another ide raid controller and run one stripe on each controller. Im trying to be frugal and want to try to avoid getting another controller. If the performance would be significantly better by getting a new controller, i would consider it, but i would like to use what i already have. Any input would be apreciated. Ultrix

ok, thanks

I tried XP beta 2 with my GTXP and had similiar problems. I read on hercules' forums that it has to do with DirectX 8. WinXP comes with dx8 installed and the gtxp drivers arnt meant for dx8. if you read the faq on hercules page it mentions not installing dx8 on win9x/me/2k. aparently the drivers for the gtxp dont get along with dx8. i once installed win2k with dx8 and the hercules drivers and had all sorts of problems. now im using win2k, dx7 and the 2.01 drivers and have no problems. Also, ive had strange sound issues with mp3's and playing divx movies, the sound glitches out for a moment. This is due to the "digital in" being unmuted in the control panel. Aparently the port runs in polled mode and the driver is constantly polling to see if a stream is present, when it polls, the audio glitches. By muting the digital in when not in use these problems went away. Hope this helps. Ultrix

I have one major complaint, the forum search not accepting input less than 3 characters. I have problems with choppy dvd playback on my win2k computer but i cant search the forum for "dvd" because its less than 4 letters. it was never like this before. Also i had issues with SMP and my soundcard, but i cant include SMP in the search because its too short. I dont like to ask questions again that could have been previously answered, it annoys people. What gives????? Many popular search tearms like w2k, ide, dma, ram, irq, etc., important stuff like these are unsearchable. And i find this unacceptable. Ultrix