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I'm curious as to what settings would be best for XP. I must admit that the default settings are a HELL of a lot better then any Win 9x default settings but I just wanted to get an idea from you longer using Win 2k/XP users

Well I had 448 megs before my board and stick of 128 fried on me. Now I'm down to 320 and this board has 3 slots for ram and not an extra 4th slot like the other board. I'd like to get another 128 or 256 for the slot the 64 meg one is sitting in but replacing the board and chip already made me broke

I've had this old SB Live Value ever since the SB Live value was a brand new thing and in my P75 with my Voodoo1/ATI combo. I never was able to get the thing working as nice as it does in the 9x in Win2k and only in RC1 does the base drivers for it seem decent although that's without the EAX stuff. I'm hoping that before the end of the year after XP is in the stores that Creative will actually do proper, decent XP drivers (Liveware?) for the thing. I have this feeling they designed the card for Win 9x from the ground up and then tried to hack some code in 2k to get it to somewhat work after they realized that this NT core wasn't going away. I'm wondering how that Hercules Theater sound thingy is...

I had a zip of this thing that I got from here before and it rocked! It contained the much needed Adaptec aspi files and a method to install them without any of their stinking products. My computer died a week ago and I also lost my C: drive where the zip was sitting on. Anybody have a link? I tried searching the forums and found nothing

Thank you!

I have a Abit KA7-100 (the one with the raid) and I have a problem. After so many hours of use, XP (builds 2481 and 2485 btw) will make the hd grind and then it sounds like it's posting and then it locks up. If any data was floating around my E: drive (more on that in a sec) it's toast, gone, obliterated. I have a 20 gig for my C: and a small 3 gig for my D: as well as a DVD rom and burner. Since the Abit has 4 extra IDEs (the Highpoint) I decided to make use of it for my 40 giger on E:. Since I was doing something that involved data being read/written off E:, I'm under the assumption that the Highpoint driver in XP is sortof blarged. Before in earlier builds I just installed the 2k drivers and never had this problem. Never had this problem in either 98SE or ME. Wondering if anybody else ran into this? Also any suggestions? I'm thinking of replacing the Highpoint driver with the 2k driver and hope it doesn't bugger up

Weird. Still doesn't explain why the TY bios doesn't find my harddrive that's plugged into the Highpoint. Did you guys who updated to the TY bios have the HP empty and then plugged a HD into it afterwards like the previously mentioned method of installed XP?

Hmm...I was going to ask if anybody tried those new drivers posted on the front page work any decent on XP...nevermind

I got an SBLive value. I remember trading away all my old Snes games at EB when the card first came out and paid a grand total of $10 for the thing I used to have a world of trouble with Win2k betas as well. Eventually Creative made Liveware 3 for 2k that was still half-assed compared to the 9x quality but at least it worked. I got a 4 speaker setup. I like the 4 speakers going off, even if it's not in surround but front and rear just doing left and right. The thing's are so tiny you pretty much need both of them to get the right volume. Why does every beta MS OS can't have 4 speakers working with the SBLive??

Well this is what I did with 2486: - left my 40 gig E: drive usign the HP ide plugged in - installed XP - after XP was done installing (E: was working but it would crash eventually) I went to Highpoint's site and downloaded the latest Win2k HP drivers - installed them I've been running for about 4-5 days now, most of them online without reboots. The only problem I got now is not with XP or the HP drivers but the TY KA7-100 bios that ignores my drive in the HP ide

Hey Reaper. I looked up Paul's KA7-100 site and grab those latest bios on it. Nice little Athlon logo when you boot up but the @#%^ thing doesn't find my HD that's plugged into the Highpoint IDE. I read that there's no RAID in it, but this is just a normal HD sitting in there. Good thing I kept all my older bios updates

That's not a bad idea, but yeah a pita alright. Since my E: drive is just games and stuff basically (no OS's or anything of the type) that should work fine. Mind you I think I'll wait for a real RC1 to try it since I heard 2486 just came out

I checked Highpoints page since it's been awhile, got newer Windows drivers for 9x and 2k. It said to check your mobo manufacturer for HP bios updates. Well, the last time Abit updated the KA7-100 bios was back on 8/9/2000 I guess the KT7A-100 (the same thing but socket not slot A) is too different? It was updated last month

I saw the previous post about newer SBLive drivers and well that's half the story there Actually, the driver buggered up during the download (I'm assuming) and very shortly after it gets to the install part it stops and WinUpdate reports an error occered. Now, whenever I try to redownload this driver, the download bar is always full and it attempts to install again and it can't. It esitmates 2 minutes to download the CT470(whatever) file and while I'm on @Home, it's not that fast *cough* So the stupid thing is stuck in a temp dir somewhere. Not a problem, I'll just goto the Winupdate temp dir....hmmm, it's empty already. Crap! Anybody know where this ellusive Winupdate temp dir is? I've been searching for at least an hour now, killing every temp dir I see and no luck

Windows XP could stand for: - experiance needed to get it to work - expensive - experiment - extremely pissy Uh, I'm out of names for now

When I tried the 1080 drivers in XP it would take somewhere between 1 to 2 mins before the start button did anything plus I noticed my DX games were running slower. Also Quake 3 and UT freeze up the OS on me after a couple mins of play (no it's not heat) with any version of vid drivers. Right now I'm using the suggested ones off of WinUpdate. Maybe I should toss on one of those Via 4in1 drivers in here? I was thinking of it but I heard some horror stories

Tried using it, saying it didn't work is an understatement. The system rebooted as soon as it loaded it up. Had to go into safemode and remove all the registry bits manually since it never fully finished the install. Anybody else have this problem? I kindof like ZA with the big yes/no for proggies trying to get at the net since I had a trojan once which it stopped. That and the built in firewall, which I just turned on, seems not to be doing anything. That and I'm dumb, so the big yes/no is up my alley

I have an Abit KA7-100 and never had a problem like this. So far I'm not screaming bloody murder because this is a beta after all, and an MS beta at that It seems like I'm cursed. Those 1080 drivers made my DX progs slower and they won't remove themselves. Even the system backup didn't get rid of the 2 minute pause I get when I first try to hit the start button (the other problem I got) and I've noticed XP is more of a ***** to force it to look at something and install a driver from there and the vid driver on WindowsUpdate doesn't show up anymore. BLARG Considering a clean re-install of the os

I tried those drivers in hopes it would fix my problem - stuff freezing up when I'm using OpenGL, namely Quake 3 and UT (I'm using that hi res texture patch and that needs to be in OpenGL) Well the drivers look and run amazingly enough...although Q3 still froze on me for no reason. I wonder what's causing it? I know DX things don't freeze up or I would of noticed during my countless hours of playing Asheron's Call which is DX based. These 1080 drivers are the only ones I've put on my system. I haven't even bothered with the SBLive ones since I hear most people can't get them to work with v2428 anyways.

Yup, I'm running into this problem too. Got a link so other dummies like myself can get working aspi drivers to burn stuff?

Windows 2000 is basically NT5 and as with NT4 and others, DOS programs (esp. games) simply do not work because of the OS's design. While you might get the odd old Dos thing to work (try turning off sound and no Vesa video modes) generally they simply won't work, period. As for Mame, get Winmame and that problem at least is easily solved.

Bah! If your C: is Fat16/32 reinstall 98SE on it and then reinstall Win2k into it's own drive/partition and do with that whatever you want (Fat32/NTFS5,etc) If C: is not Fat16/32 then format it to Fat32 and install 98SE and install Win2k into it's own drive/partition etc. Not the best solution but it's the easist if you have 0% clue to what you're doing

Creative has had plenty of time to get their act together, the day that RC1 was finished. There wasn't going to be any major changes at that point and that was quite a ways back if I remember correctly. Well, one W2K thing I wanted is a no-go, hopefully there will be some real Asus TNT drivers that run decently but I'm not holding my breath

Just tried the latest drivers and my first test was off to UT I have a TNT1, Celery oc'ed to 375, 196 megs, Final build of 2k. At certain parts of the game when I'm looking at too many objects or some effect (I'm not sure what, I cannot pinpoint it) everything slows down to something that seems like 1fps if I'm lucky and at other times it seems normal. This is in 32bit colour. 16bit colour works fine. I'm just curious if this is common knowledge of UT running at 32bit colour in W2k or if I have found some strange driver problem.

Just UT opened. It runs fine @32bitcolour except sometimes when I'm looking at certain things (Like that light blue shaft thingy in the 3rd level of DM in the single player UT mode when you are one-on-one with that girl bot) it will crawl to a snail's pace and then go back to normal when I look away. I guess I have to wait for Asus to make some real drivers or something and just forget these ref ones