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http://www.ntcompatible.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=17975 Try this thread, it worked for me.

not me man, i have a golden ear, if someone burns a cd with mp3's decoded to wav's, i can tell the bitrate just by listening to it, if its over 192kbps though i have a hard time, but 96-192kbps i can tell a huge difference, i know i'm not the only person.

i would be happy enough just to change Luna colors using the Color-Wheel (like with WB XP when it comes out as a Final product).

i've flashed my card's BIOS before, but exactly what is the best way to do it....and if i screw up the video bios, can i repair it?

PROBLEM SOLVED! LOL, it's 6:15am, i was just about to give up on trying to install Windows XP on these machines when a thought hit me...why not put MY GeForce II MX card in the machine, just as a last resort to see if it works....well, it did. Some of you were partially right when saying it was the video card and its BIOS, the only thing is, MY GF2MX is a Hercules 3d Prophet II mx card, which has an OLDER BIOS than the one i had originally tried: Hercules 3D Prophet II MX (32MB AGP) (The one that worked) BIOS: 3.11.00.18.00 Unknown Reference GeForce II MX-400 (32MB AGP) (One that didn't work) BIOS: 3.11.01.24.00 Now this brings up a new question, my card's not an MX-400 card but just a plain old MX, can I flash the other card's BIOS with the same one that the Hercules is using without damaging it? Cody (Pimpin_228): If you read this from school, don't make any plans today, I got XP 2600 Installed and ready on this Hard Drive, we'll have to use the other motherboard though, or if you wanna keep using your existing one, i can bring over my Hercules Card along with the LAN machine. Gimmie a call when you get home or else i'll just stop by around 4pm today.

as am i.

NTFS doesn't need to do a disk check, it gets corrupted far far less than FAT32

UPDATE: Okay, I have disabled "Assign IRQ to VGA", No i do not have the "Devil's Own" ISO, I have tried burning it with both CDRWIN4 and EZ CD Creator 5 Platinum, neither CD worked. I have tried 3 other motherboards: Abit KT7A-RAID w/ Athlon 700 FIC AZ11EA w/ Athlon 850 FIC AZ11EA w/ Athlon 700 each time I get the same thing, it boots the cd, loads a few drivers, says "Starting Windows", and then Hangs.....EACH TIME! Just to check to see if my ISO and CD's were bad, I ran a CRC check on them, and they came back ok. I also put it in MY main machine that has an Abit VH6 w/ P3 667eb, it booted the cd, loaded a few drivers, said "Starting Windows", and then proceeded to ask me if I wanted to install or repair an installation. (In other words, it worked fine.) All motherboards i have tried have VIA chipsets, all of the Athlon boards are KT133a/686b chipsets and my Intel board has a 686a southbrige (not sure about the northbridge). So....why does it work on my Intel/VIA system and not the AMD/VIA systems?

Circuit City was always the worst place for me to go, talk about harassment.

i agree USB all the way.

really its pimpin_228's problem, but i think we will be able to solve it

funny cause we tried 3 different GF2MX's, a TNT1, an AGP Trident card, and a voodoo3 2000. none solved the problem so how can flashing the video BIOS solve this problem, i can maybe understand flashing the system BIOS but not the Video BIOS, i refuse to beleive that after using a 3d prophet II mx in my machine and having no problems with install that on another machine it would require a video bios flash....how can this be?

dude, i get the same problems with those drivers when i try to play video files and stuff, i have found no way to fix it except for reverting to older drivers, i like the 8.04's myself.

are you sure man? i don't wanna go through the trouble of flashing if it doesn't work 100%.

why did you double post?

really, i run the 2.0 drivers instead of the 2.2's and have no problems and do not have to run in 2k Compat. mode.

LOL, i wanna get in this too, too bad i don't feel like typing a lot.....LOL, clutch, have Phillip make me a Mod again. lol.

i'm still gonna download it

i'm still running 2526, all games have ran for me since build 2505, i'm in the process of downloading 2600, but the lightning fast speed of a 56k modem makes it hell trying to download a 512MB ISO.

heard Plus!XP comes with some cool little games....how are they?

Yes, please sell it to him!!!! Jeff: lol, trying to help you out man.

i think if it DOES end, it won't be anytime soon. 30hrs a day...yup. Most of us live with 24hr days, the Media on the other hand.....30hr days.

i like NTFS for the one simple fact that i can shut down the computer improperly without having to run a checkdisk. I get power outtages sometimes and it's nice to have a filesystem that doesn't get f.ucked up.

to tell you guys the honest truth, i have never had any problems with VIA chipsets....and they're the only one's i have ever used, that goes for ones that run AMD (KT133a) and ones that run Intel.

sometimes the stupidest thing causes the biggest problems. I'm glad it fixed your problem though.