CUViper

check what the video bios says when booting up (video bios comes right before the system bios)

hehe.... i think he's referring to a win2k command prompt

I think the resource kit has a shutdown command

The point Down8 was making is that you converted the first partition to NTFS, which is a no-no. For any Win9x os to work, the first partition in the system needs to be a FAT partition. If you want to fix it without re-installing, you could use partition magic to convert it back to Fat32. It would be better if you just re-installed though.

did you try the Add/Remove Programs control panel?

Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by lexluthor: if your whole system is ide then u wouldnt need aspi aspi= advanced scsi program interface</font> not true.... aspi drivers can be used to access ide drives as well. For example, AudioCatalyst needs aspi drivers to rip audio at high speeds in win2k, whether or not your drive is scsi.

you can never have too much.....

is there anything in the event log?

so jd, how much stock do have in microsoft these days?

gotta have the cable.... try contacting sigma for a new one

make sure there's some kind of circulation going on in/out of the cabinet.... all the fans in the worlds aren't going to help if it's blowing around the same hot air!

use TweakUI

for the win9x series os's (including WinME, i think), you have to set the boot directory to the root of the drive.... so your last line should read: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\="Microsoft Windows Millenium"

it's installed by the game... look in your installation directory (i.e. C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Need For Speed - Porsche Unleashed)

try removing the gimme.dll file - it causes problems for many users

I agree - excellent game! Have you played any of the other Infinity Engine games? BGII is my favorite, but Planescape: Torment is very cool as well...

the burn-proof lets the writer resume a burn after a buffer underrun. It's really nice, bacause you don't have to worry about making coasters, and you can still do stuff on your computer. Once I even started a game of unreal tournament in the middle of a burn, and it still finished fine!

try MusicCity - it's a private network of servers compatible with the napster software. Plus their servers are interlinked, so you see ALL the songs on their network...

If it's always that software that does it, then they've got a bug in their program. See if there's an update to the software, as they may have already discovered it. If not, try writing tech support describing the problem, and maybe tell them what i said about it too. Like I said though, it's really hard to find out where you're trying to de-reference a null-pointer, unless you've got debugging information (even then it's a pain in the *** ).

circumference of a circle is 2*pi*radius, so it's precisely a linear relationship. Data that's 1 inch from the center will pass about 6.3 inches of data per revolution, while data that's 2 inches from the center will pass 12.6 inches of data over the drive heads per revolution. That's a pretty significant difference to me.... This is just mathematically though, which is pretty ideal. There will still be a difference between the inner and outer edge, but it may not be that dramatic. I can't find a benchmark that show the position on the disk though, so I can't give numbers to back it up. (HDTach will do it, but the free version doesn't work under NT/2K)

it means that the program was trying to access memory where it's not allowed... 0x00000008 would be in the interrupt vector table, which i'm pretty sure win2k guards jealously (and for good reason). Most likely, the program tried to de-reference a null-pointer (a common programming error, which can sometimes be a real pain to track down). If this is the case, there's not really anything you can do about it.... what program is causing the error?

hey apk, there's a small typo in your game tuning guide.... you're missing the 'r' in rnals.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.systeminternals.com - other than that, looks like a nice guide!

you're right apk - to use setwin95.cmd, you just run "setwin95 program.exe" once, and from then on that program will think it's running under win95....

Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by areid: If I look at the game's analysis listing it thinks that it's running on an NT machine...</font> did it say that it can't run on NT? Remember, Windows 2000 is basically NT5, so it may not be a problem if the game identifies NT. You make it sound like you immediately went to apcompat, without even trying it first....

actually, with a pII 400, he's underclocking the PC133. I've got mixed RAM in my system and I have no problems at all (2*PC100 128mb, 1*PC133 128mb, Aopen ax6bc pro gold, pIII 700). Did you try that memory tester yet?