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Speaking of names, kwei is a radio station where I live. You're not from Idaho are you?

I just installed an Epox motherboard. EP-7KXA with a VIA-KX133 AGPset and an Athlon 700 cpu. I am running a triple boot with Milly, Win2k, and XP. The only os that will boot is Milly. With the other 2, I get a blue stop error screen that says Windows has been halted to prevent damage to my computer. I've been given different possible solutions from my local guru's ranging from a Bois flash to not enough power. I have a 250 watt power supply. Do I need 300 watts? I would like to solve this, because I love XP. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated....thanks.

That is exactly what it was. Dude, I really appreciate your help. Just when you think you start knowing a little, something comes along to humble you right down. Thanks for the insight and advise.

I have a Creative Labs Modem Blaster 56k which is isa, and it works flawlessly in XP. Just my 2 cents worth.

I had a problem logging on also. I would get an error msg that would say that Windows files were either missing or damaged and that I needed to repair or re-install. This registry tweak fixed the problem. Thanks alot!!!

I backup Quicken to an Iomega 100 meg Zip drive. Are you using Quicken 2000?

I get the physical memory dump blue screen if I try to shut down or reboot. Mine was caused because I have a usb device attatched to my system. If you have one also, double click on the green arrow in the system tray and bring up a window that will allow you to highlight the device and click stop. Once you've done this, you should be able to shut down or reboot without a problem. Hope this helps .

Well, the installer still said my card wasn't compatible, so I just used the upgrade driver Wizard, and pointed to Rage 128 GL AGP (English) and it worked. Now I have the option to use the TV out again. I use it with a DVD Rom. Thanks again Doc

Thanks for the info Doc. I'm going after them now.

Those special purpose drivers on ATI's site have been available for almost 3 weeks. ATI says they won't offer Tech support for them and not to run them on mission critical machines. I tried to run the installer and got the msg saying my card isn't supported. I tried to get around it and got the drivers updated, then my machine wouldn't boot. I got a blue screen with the msg "bad pool caller". I had to go in in safe mode and revert back to WDM drivers to get the machine back. Any thoughts on this?

I'm grabbing the creative update as we speak. I had a similar problem with the blue screen associated with up[censored] Adaptec Easy CD Creator to 4.02. The error msg. on the blue screen said "Bad pool caller". I tried several remedies, including uninstalling Dell's Liveware, and removing the card from the device mgr. The only time I could boot to the desktop was if I physically removed the card, then it booted up just fine. I finally attempted re-installing Windows 2000. It worked, and now I have WDM drivers and a working computer(for now). An interesting note, I tried putting the card in a different pci slot and I still got the blue screen, but with a different error msg.(something to do with irq errors, but i honestly can't remember). Hope this info helps.

Beavis, you're such a Butthead.....hehe. Believe it or not, I really appreciate the fact that you took a minute to answer my question. I migrated over from Win 98 and, as you know, there ARE differences in settings and configuration. I've learned a ton since I started frequenting this board, and I hope I can be of some help to someone in the future. Everybody learns at a different pace and not everybody thinks on the same level, so I hope those on here who like to be demeaning and sarcastic to what they think of as a "stupid question" will take a moment of pause before lashing out at those who are just trying to learn. I was taught that the only stupid question is the one you don't ask. It's just a thought. Again, thanks Beavis, for taking the time to help me.

Where in Windows 2000 do you set up an account for network access?

You guys know any good warez sites? ;o)

I'm so happy I could sh*t!!! I actually have Liveware working on my 2000 machine! hehe Do I need a life? My wife thinks so.

We're you using Partition Magic to resize the partitions? I did that and had the same results as you are having. When I would select Windows 98 from the boot menu, I would get "invalid system disk" with no floppy in the drive.

I have an oem CD and it has options to install some extras like a tools and such that weren't on the pre-release 2195. The installation looked a little different. Those are the only differences I noticed.

EddiE, click on my computer and see what comes up. JBoDean wants to bypass this step and go straight to where you can select a drive.

hahahahahahahaha you guys are too funny! I'll be keeping a close eye on this board at the end of the week. It'll be a hoot.

Office installed perfectly for me. I have the premium edition. I don't know if that makes any difference. I would be interested to know what you did to get Liveware to install tho ). Maybe it's a hardware software combination.

Since I'm not going to torture myself anymore by continuing to attempt Liveware installs till Creative comes out with what I need, is there any way to enable the second speaker jack on an SB Live without Liveware?

The old fashioned way.LOL Right on. Thanks

My printer shows up in Device Manager under other devices with a ? next to it even tho I installed it thru the printer icon in control panel. Could this be because I have it piggy backed to a parallel zip drive?

Sorry. The printer is a Lexmark 5700. Windows 2000 autodetected it and placed it in the "other" catagory. Properties says the device is working properly, but when I go to the printer icon in the control panel it's not there. This printer has a 2 floppy set for installing drivers and a control panel of it's own. One set of floppies for Win98 and one for NT 4.0. I ran the setup for NT and it works perfectly, but the device is still listed in the device manager. It's not causing problems, I was just curious if it was caused by the piggy backing thing with the zip drive.

Is it onboard video or a pci card? I have drivers for both. I put Win2k on a system with onboard sis 6326 8 meg and I used NT 4.0 drivers. It worked perfectly. Let me know if I can help. I'll watch for you to post.