Sean

For some reason my asus ge force 256 deluxe card forces a reboot sporatically after the q3 is started. i am using 3.66 and did the various tricks like gamma, and nvogld.xx or whatever it is placed in /windows/system before i install the driver 3.66. i am using 2195 pro with a intel coppermine cc820 mb and p3 600 eb cpu 256 megs pc133? any ideas out there would be much appreciated. Sean

Greggy, I could not agree more, This type of thing i usually attribute to hardware as well, CPU ,MEM, Video Card.I am running a Coppermine 600eb , on an Intel CC820 MB, WIth the ASUS Ge FOrce 256 6600 deluxe. I was in error before when i stated it was running the CL Annhuilator DDR,that is another machine . Sorry.. The MB has SB PCI 128 on board, and the only other cards in the machine are a Rockwell Modem and a 3com 3c905B-TX. Frankly this type of behavior i attribute to over heating almost always. Not here though , i suspected all these things at first so i applied forced air refrigeration to this box with in case Blowers pointed at CPU and Video Card, This thing is Cool!!! Now i notice this forced Reboot can occur when viewing DVD as well, This leads me to believe this is Video Related and i would swear an Overheat situation, but that card is ICE after my Procedure. Perhaps the ASUS 256 Card just can't handle this or i have a defective one and it is not win 2k's fault at all , rather a coincidence, I am leaning towards that as no one else has this problem. I am going to swap out the Video Card here today and report back to everyone! Thanks all of you for participation in this thread. This is the power of the Internet. Sean

Well, Thank you all for your replies and opinions. In my case i am using w2k on this particiular machine mainly to familiarize myself with it's unique attributes that only daily regular use can do. I can KVM to any of the 8 other boxes i use here daily to work with and to their various o/s's. Regardlesss of the reason this box is running 2195 i was hoing to determine if this particiular anomoly is unique to me or if others habe seen the phenomenom and have found a work around. As to NTFS slowing down the system due to its inherent security features. I am not usiing NTFS or active directory on this box . I do intend to benchmark 2195 against w9x to this ends at a later time i will post my findings with both a NTFS based w2k and otherwise. I will say that i have found w2k server and advanced server far superior to NT 4.0 spx that is for certain. The sheer breadth of Admin features alone is impressive in comparison. I would like to see Q3 and w2k to be as stable as Q3 w98 in the near future that is for certain and i feel drivers alone may achieve that. If anyone has a similiar problem as mine or a solution please let us know. I will do the same. Again thanks all for your opinions. Sean