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I installed Corel Photo Paint 8 and all the update patches and it work fine under W2K, but I have a problem, now photo paint will control all jpg file even if I try to open a jpg file with IE or Netscape photo paint will open up and take over ie the jpg will show up in photopaint instead in IE or netscape, Please is there anyway to prevent photo paint from opening up? TIA

Abit BP6 with Dual Celeron 366@550 both with GlobalWin FKP32 heatsink and fan, asking US$200 includes 1st class mail to anywhere in Canada and USA. Please email apvmtan@hotmail.com if interested.

It is sold

Retail box 32MB DDR version, got it as a gift last summer, I am not a game player, don't see the benefit over my G200 that it replaced. Need the Cash. Details can be found at http://www.3dblaster.com/products/annihilator2/ Asking US$185 including postage to anywhere in US and Canada, if interested please email apvmtan@hotmail.com

It is sold.

3COM 10/100 PCI Network card 3c905-TX, US$35 includes postage to anywhere in US and Canada. Reason to sell is because I need the PCI slot for TV Card and I use the 3COM for my cable modem, so back to ISA network card for me. If interested please email apvmtan@hotmail.com thanks.

It is now listed at ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1212403206

I am planning to buy this board, one question for those who own it, how is the IRQ of the 5 PCI slots are share? I know the AGP slot share IRQ with PCI slot next to it, how about the other 4, which one share with each other etc, can anyone post the Information?

Anyone know a 10/100 network card that can share IRQ with Sound Blaster Live?

BTW I tried moving everything around it seems only the ATI TV wonder will sit at last slot but after that I have no video only sound.

You may be right CUviper, I checked all my cards under W98 with PCIlist, all cards were bus master except the Acer ALN-201 NIC I borrowed from a friend and it is working nicely at the last slot sharing irq with SBLIVE, the thing is the ALN-201 is not a 10/100 card.

Spuddeh is right, best driver right now for W2K is 7.17 and DX8, I had no problem with it except the overlay in control panel as Spuddeh mentioned, just don't adjust anything in the overlay section and you are alright, but you don't have to anyway.

Thanks, but are they sharing IRQ with sblive? Since I only has one PCI slot left and it is sharing IRQ with sblive, I tried 3COM 3C900B-TPO and 3COM 3C905B, both will hang after windows detected new hardware. Since my lan party has recently upgraded to 10/100, looking for a 10/100 NIC that can share irq with sblive, please kindly confirm, TIA

I am happy with 7.17 and DX 8 because my ATI TV Wonder work happily with Creative Geforce 2 in W2K. Best driver yet for W2k IMHO

I only has 1 PCI slot left and that PCI slot shares IRQ with my Promise raid card, I tried the 3COM 900B and Aopen ALN-201 both won't work, anyone know of a brand of NIC that can share IRQ?

My old Magitronic non PNP ISA network card will only work like 14.4 modem speed in W2K connected to cable modem but fine under W98, both O/S detected it as a NE2000 compatible, but once I switched the Magitronic to an Aopen PNP ISA NIC, it works like a charm. May be drivers IMHO as W2K detected the Aopen as an Aopen ALN-101

Dual boot W2K/W98 Abit BP6 with Dual Celeron 366@550 AGP: Creative Lab Geforce 2 (IRQ:11) PCI 1: Creative Lab Live Value (IRQ:11,5) PCI 2: ATI TV Wonder (IRQ:10) PCI 3: Adaptec 2940 SCSI card sharing IRQ with onboard HPT, no drives attached (IRQ:14) PCI 4: Promise Fasttrack 66 raid card sharing IRQ with USB, no USB device attached (IRQ:15) PCI 5: no device ISA 1: Aopen ALN 101 network card (IRQ:3) ISA 1: Zoom ISA 56k fax modem (IRQ:4) To my surprise, the geforce 2 can share IRQ with Live maybe both card from same manufacturer, anyway D3D games are all smooth in both W2K and Win98, I have no opengl games, so I can't test stablity. Also have to disable PNP function on both ISA cards and assign IRQ through jumper for the modem and software settings for Network card. If I don't one of the ISA PNP card will take up IRQ:10 and forced the TV wonder to use IRQ:4 which the TV wonder refuses to work with this IRQ even tho it is not sharing with other device. Finally, the W2K beta driver work all right with my setup and I can watch stereo TV while I work. One thing I like is to have my favorite TV program as background while I work in front of it. My TV wonder is an OEM package of the new revision (BT878 chipset) My geforce uses Nivida reference driver 7.17 for W2k and 6.67 for W98 (both O/S installed DX 8) I have also compared The TV wonder with APAC Viewcomp 878 (www.amaxhk.com) and Zoltrix Genie TV (www.zoltrix) both of these cards look similiar and uses the same chipset as ATI TV Wonder (BT878) but both didn't mention if TV is stereo only FM is stereo and both have remote control (two things that ATI don't have) but the picture quality is worse than ATI and ATI has BTSC stereo Decoder for TV which neither APAC nor Zoltrix has. Price wise, both APAC and Zoltrx is same price while my OEM TV wonder cost $7 more. The shop which I brought the ATI was installing an APAC on a system and an ATI on another system with same specs except the TV card, the salesperson let me watch both to compare, if not I would have brought either Zoltrix or APAC for they cost less but with FM radio function plus a remote control and they uses the same BT878 chipset as the ATI. As I said before while comparing I notice that both Zoltrix and APAC have no option for SAP thus may not be a Stereo TV device, sales person can't find anything about TV being stereo in the manual and with the software. Picture and sound quality, ATI win hands down. ATI can also do full screen background while we are not sure if the software that come with APAC/Zoltrix can as we can't find the control. Finally a question, possibly a stupid one , are the TV stereo signal processed by the BT878?

Why shouldn't it? I have disabled both onboard IDE controller thus releasing IRQ 14 and 15 the SCSI and Promise raid card pick them up. Since I think you know computers more than me, is there a PCI Network card that can share IRQ with the Promise raid card? Tried both 3Com 900B and Aopen aln-201, both refuses to work.

Try installing DX8 and latest driver for your video card and make sure the TV card don't share irq with other card in your system.

Just brought the card today and setted it up, installed the beta software from ati.com, it work all right with geforce 2 W2k 7.17 driver and DX 8, the TV is clearer with W2K than W98, may be I am only using 6.67 with W98. there is a few bug but you can live with it for the time being. 1) software will hang after finished scanning of channels but if you end task with task manager and restart computer the channels are there. 2) if you maximize TV display and minimize it, program will hang (sound still play but screen with still picture) end task and restart computer will fix it. if you don't restart, the program will not start up again. Overall no major problem watching TV while doing some work with W2K yet, will post when found.

I am planning to buy a TV card but I have only 1 PCI slot left and that is the one next to my AGP card with a GEForce video card. I am wondering if a TV Card uses IRQ and do you think it can share with the geforce? TIA

Thank you, but I don't think Creative ever released any driver based on 6.31 for W2K, oh well anyway hope future creative driver will fix this part.

Same here with Geforce 2 Creative 6.34 driver (actully all creative drivers after this game is released) one match at a time. If you find fix pleas post TIA. BTW, does anyone know how to change the refresh rate in this game, tried dxdiag but still 60hz in game.

If SBLIVE is giving you problem try Aopen AW744 Pro, it is based on the Yamaha 744 chipset not as good as sblive but work perfertly with W2K and it cost only US$30

Using 6.34 and DX 8 same problem in W2K, I can play one game but have to save after the game for the next game will crash to windows. no idea, sorry can't offer any help.