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I know you've probably answered this a million times, but can someone help me getting Win2k 2195 working at a satisfactory speed? My system is thus : Dual P3-500's on QDI Brilliant X4 with onboard LAN + SCSI 512Mb RAM 5 x 4.5Gb UW SCSI's 10x IDE DVD (Aopen) 48x IDE CD (AOpen) Yamaha CRW6416S CDRW (SCSI) Plextor 16X SCSI Reader Archive 2Gb DAT Matrox MGA400 Max SBLive Hauppauge WinTV Radio Creative Encore DVD Card LS120 IDE Zip Assuming that none of the external items which I haven't bother to list wouldn't affect the speed maybe someone could enlighten me as to why Win2K runs like a dog? Menu fades/wipes are so slow that you can see each frame passing and the system isn't fast enough to be useful. I've read about possible problems with SMP and SBLive!, but am wondering whether having the NIC on the same IRQ as the soundcard (can't move them) is causing a problem the sound stutters when the network is being used. Do I need to do a reinstall and sort out PCI steering or am I missing something obvious? I'm wondering whether I just have too much stuff in/attached to the PC to make Win2K a viable choice of OS...

I've tried it with and without PCI steering. It makes no difference. I've tried SMP with the SBLive! disabled and it didn't seem to make any difference either. As far as it goes, I'm starting to think that there could be a number of reasons for my problems. The main one, I think, is that my QDI BX4 isn't properly ACPI compliant. I spent hours changing mobo resources over the weekend with varying results and the best solution so far has been to not allow the PnP OS to take over hardware control. I'm sure the other things would be causing probs as well so I'm going to stay with the system running as a UniProcessor one until I have a new bios and hopefully proper drivers. I think there's just too much hardware sharing the same resources on my machine and the OS can't properly cope.... Who knows though?

My server is running Win2K server 2128 and Sygate 3.1 for Internet Connection Sharing. The 98SE clients all work wonderfully but I can't get my 2195 Win2K Pro to use the connection. (You can ping internet IP addresses via the server, but not DNS names) If Sygate works, is there something obvious that I'm missing? All i've done on the client side is provide the DNS details as the IP of the server which was fine for 98. If it doesn't work, is there another ICS program out there that does and is any good? Don't suggest the built in one as it's crap and doesn't provide me with the control I need. Matt

Oh. Here's what IPConfig shows. Maybe that would help?!?! Windows 2000 IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : cartman Primary DNS Suffix . . . . . . . : Southpark.meteor-systems.com Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : Southpark.meteor-systems.com meteor-systems.com Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : southpark.meteor-systems.com Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel® PRO/100+ Management Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : Re-mo-ve-d!-!!-!! DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1 Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 09 January 2000 09:07:10 Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 16 January 2000 09:07:10 .... Obviously my mac address isn't Removed!!!! . I'm just cautious!

Didn't work SHS! As for what control i'm looking for.... well.... it all revolves around being in the UK and having to pay for my calls during the week. I have 3 different net connections for weekdays, saturdays and sundays and I want the weekday ones to time out after a certain time, and the weekend ones to stay connected. Using ICS I have to go to the server and change which connection it uses. It would work I know, but I want automation.

OK then. Maybe it's something else on my system. I was using a totally clean install of 2195 with only the G400Max drivers (which work fine on my system) and the native SBLive! WDM installed. I never even attempted to install LW as the system was running so badly. Incidently, when installing, 2195 informs me that I have a non-compliant ACPI bios and therefore I have it turned off (until QDI release the new one) so the machine is detected from a clean install as an MPS Multiprocessor system rather than an ACPI one. Could this be the problem? I wouldn't have thought so, but if SMP is meant to work with the SBLive WDM it can't be the soundcard can it???? Confused.......

Not on my system. It runs rediculously slowly.

Are there any drivers for the DXR2 card yet? I've seen numerous posts regarding using the WDM drivers but that doesn't work on my system!!

I downloaded that file and tried again (even though it was the same files as the one I had) but it makes no difference. Device Manager still says "This device cannot start. (Code 10)" Matt

IP by DHCP (from Win2K, not Sygate) DNS as IP of server No gateway No WINS Think that's it!

Well I've decided to give up on trying to get the system to work with the SBLive and SMP. I've changed the computer type to Standard PC and although I've lost one of the CPU's the system is working fine. Hopefully, when Creative decide that the time is right, they'll release some drivers that work with SMP. Just have to wait and see.

On the QDI mainboard, PCI1 is listed as the slot next to ISA1. I do have a gap between the AGP card and the DVD. I'm going to do a total reinstall today, including 98SE, so I'll move the cards around a bit to see if that helps.

It's G400 - AGP DVD - PCI3 SBLive - PCI2 Hauppauge - PCI1 PNP OS is set to on. Incidently, when installing, Win2K reports my bios as not being ACPI compliant and therefore I have it turned off. I've tried changing the PC type to Standard PC, and once PCI Steering is turned off, everthing seems to work fine. However, to use both CPU's I obviously have to have a Multiprocessor kernel.... The ACPI one hangs the machine at boot up and the MPS one is sloooooooooowwwww.