DosFreak

The VP6 is an EXCELLENT duallie board. Unfortunately when the dual P4's/Palamino's really come out it'll be left in the dust.

Anyone try 10 yet? I have it but haven't tried it.

MS doesn't use QuikView in their products anymore...not sure why but I thinl their license with a 3rd party expired or something.

It is possibile to replace individual files and even to replace the old compressed one with new compressed one but I wouldn't try it. For instance one of my Compaq servers crashed after applying the MS Securt Rollup package. I found out that it was the SCSIPORT.SYS...so I had to boot into DOS with my NTFS disks and replace the file with the ver from SP6a. To make a long story short. IT"S NOT WORTH IT!

Go here and download IE5SETUP.EXE http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/download/ie55sp1.htm Now make a batch file with these lines in it and save it: ie5setup /c:"ie5wzd.exe /d /s:""#E""" Run this batch file in the same directory as IE5Setup.exe

If you go to www.m3dzone.com you can download the .pdf's for the drivers. They tell which set is for which...although the 8 dets are missing from the .pdf's.

and the theme tech in XP is from Stardock so using WIndowsBlinds will be about the same.

Quote: ATI has a great product, but that's worthless if the drivers don't come or suck. Nvidia doesn't get the maximum out of their cards the first time they release a driver, but at least they are able to walk all over a 3dfx card. The Radeons are great, but it's just the drivers that ATI needs to work on. WTF? Subtle bad words in paragraph!

Use VDMSound for Sound in DOS games. That's your best solution for sound. VDMSound by default enables 4mrg of expanded memory which you can modify by changing the .vmds files in the VDMSound directory. If you do not care about sound you can simply right-click on a DOS executable. Go to properties and alter the memory configuration of the program. Extendedn,Expanded,DPMI,Conventional. It's all there.

Well that's the spirit. ;(

Now this is a piece of software I'd love to evaluate but the license is too small. I've kept it around for the past couple of weeks looking for a "solution" or an alternative program but it looks like this is the best.

Just keep checkin' www.m3dzone.com and wait for 'em.

Woohoo! Anyone tried these yet?

Bladrunner after seeing the post you just posted.... RPG Lawful Good - This is your basic goodie-two-shoes who always tries his/her hardest to do what's right and always obeys the law no matter how insignificant a law may be. These people could probably be viewed as having a "holier than thou" attitude whether they actually have one or not. BLADREUNNER Neutral Good - This is your basic all-around good person who pretty much avoids trouble but doesn't make it his/her life goal to be perfect all the time. Chaotic Good - This is an overall good person who is probably much more unpredictable than Neutral Good people and Lawful Good people. While he/she has a good heart, trouble and bad circumstances somehow seem to find them from time to time. But one clear asset that a Chaotic Good person would probably have is an ability to think or possibly deceive his/her way out of sticky situations. Lawful Neutral - If you're Lawful Neutral, you might want to consider being a judge. Lawful Neutral people tend to be very neutral and objective when it comes to most matters and they also have a remarkable ability to resolve arguments and various disputes because of their objectivity and their basic understanding of what's right. DOSFREAK...although Chaotic Neutral seem to apply Neutral - This type of person would probably be one to just go with the flow and not really get involved in other people's problems and disputes. This might also be the kind of person who, when asked to make plans of some sort by a close friend or a significant other would probably say something like, "Whatever you want to do is fine with me." This person might be seen as laid-back or easy-going by some and apathetic by others. Chaotic Neutral - This kind of person is probably one who doesn't take sides but who instead plays both sides to get whatever it is that he/she wants. This kind of person is probably as deviously manipulative as they come. Lawful Evil - The phrase "honor among thieves" probably holds great meaning for this type of person. This person, while evil, has a code of honor by which he/she abides. An example of a Lawful Evil person might be a mafia leader. Neutral Evil - This could be your basic thug or just an unfortunate soul who fell into a life of crime and can't seem to get out. Evil henchmen and common thieves might be classified as Neutral Evil. Chaotic Evil - Sometimes psychotic and often unpredictable, a Chaotic Evil person could probably be anyone from a mass murderer to an evil dictator with plans for world domination.

Quote: Ummm, your a student. MS offer student editions of all MS products for somewhere in the region of 50-60% off the retail versions. Yes but ONLY if you are a student and only for personal use. Quote: For gods sake, how many of you actually know how PA actually works? I keep on seeing the same old crap, why should I be limited on the amount of hardware upgrades I make..... You wont be, if you re-install your OS every month then you'll never activate it anyway. Simple hardware changes do not trigger re-activation (From personal tests, not the crap printed on CNET, I have replaced a MB, Upgraded RAM, Replaced Video card and installed CD-RW drive all in one go without triggering activation). In addition it's a timed issue, so any hardware changes made within a certain amount of time (no matter how drastic) don't trigger re-activation. What's so hard to understand about a person not liking something about a product? Just because company X makes product Y doesn't mean I have to like it. If I never would have bought the product in the first place then obviously they are not losing ANY money. But I gain the knowledge of that software. I know that it's good or not good.I can be 100% sure that the product that I have chosen is good or not. A person who does not go to these lengths would at the most either listen around as to what's the "best" or they would read the latest mag. They wwould not check out the products themselees. Heck, I see it every day when people ask me about software. "I heard this is the best...Have you heard of this peice of software I just bought it. Is it any good?" Then of couse I say "NO! It sucks!. I've had it for months you should have borrowed it off of me you fool!" Quote: Going back to the post attempting to tear apart my, certainly in my eyes rather spot on, rather too close for comfort for some people, car analogy: No, because if I can't afford the Dodge Viper, why should I feel that I deserve it? If I haven't got the money then I wouldn't even think about owning it because, "copying it" is theft, why would I want to be a criminal? I can't afford a new DVD player, so I can go into a high-street store and just take one right? Why do you feel that you should be able to own something that you can't afford to buy, your bordering on communism here Who saw that we feel that we deserve anything? To those of us who work in this profession we do not regard the software we download as "owning" it. We KNOW that we don't OWN it. Duh. That's the whole point. And your views of being a criminal are skewed. I suppose your one of the guys who if they had lived in ancient times would see nothing wrong with slavery or ritual sacrifice since it wasn't against the "law". For me at least downloading software is the assimilation of information. It helps me to perform my job better. As I've stated many times before in this thread I DEFINETLY would not have the experience that I have today if I was unable to aquire software in an "illegal" fashion. Quote: I don't understand how you can justify theft. What is theft? Quote: If you justify the theft of software and Intellectual Property why does it have to end there? There is no difference in theft, theft is theft, if it's a piece of software or a car from a showroom forecourt you are still taking something that doesn't belong to you something you have no rights to take. Ah. There is no difference in murder, murder is murder. Your views are as black & White as a 1950's television set. Does your model have a sharpen knob or is it even more out of focus? Quote: Going back even further in the thread, in the past I've never asked anybody "So, is that software legit?" it hasn't mattered. However I can't believe that the mods of what is considered by a lot of people to be a professional board allow discussion on hacking, warze and criminal activities - I know of no other baord where messages like that would be allowed to stand (When I say no other board I mean of the supposed standard of this one). The mods allow discussion of: Hacking OS's Hacking Office Products In some cases actually advocating such activities. In the past, such postings as "How do I get Quake 3 to run on Win2k Advanced Server" have obviously been posted by thieves (Waits for the follow up replies, but if you're running Win2k AS it's either as a serious server or stolen for home use). Other posts along the lines of "Installed Office2k SR2 and now it wont function" again the posts in question were from thieves as that's what SR2 was designed to do - de-activate known compromised keys & hacks. Then, half of you sit back and tell us how nasty MS are, and how evil they are, and how the .net idea and subscription based software is so very bad. Why? Because suddenly you'll find that you actually have to pay for something? Even if it cost an arm and a leg to rent the next OS all you'd be doing (over the fullness of time) would be paying for the software you've all stolen in the past. In case you haven't noticed. THIS ENTIRE WEBSITE IS ABOUT HACKING NT! See that name www.ntcompatible.com . NTcompatible.com list compatibility of all appplications/games/hardware on NT operating systems. Most of the fixes require "hacking" the os. If Microsoft did their job and made a product RIGHT then there would be no reason for this website to exist but I guess as far as your concerned "hacking" the OS is wrong. How does an intelligent discussion on hacking, *****, and "criminal" activities make this board unprofessional? If anything it makes it even more Professional by bringing the subject into the light. The subscription idea is bad in some ways because: 1. Software is buggy and always will be. 2. Control will be lost. 3. MS patches do break things...the service WILL go down. 4. Paying money for crap. Why?

I can imagine bios hacks with the activation feature coming out but I wouldn't want extra buggy code in my bios. I'll stick with my SELECT vers and the cracks.

I'm with ya 4&20. *Me waits patiently for Duallie P4.

and do not use Windows 2000 convert. The utility "converts" your cluster size to 512b. NT4 didn't have this bug. XP doesn't have this bug but somehow.....someway....Microsoft removed it and added it to XP. ;(

I love my 2 P3-1000@1125's! Nah nah nah nah :p

Ah, now that people's is a well worded paragraph.

Well post the link!

1. 2k will run fine on those "old" computers. So no one give him any grief about it. 2. I am assuming that all of thesre machines are the same? When these problems occur and you have tried everything else that you can think of and can think of nothing else then try this: Strip down the system tottally except: CD,HD,Video,floppy. Remove ALL PCI devices and reset the bios to bios defaults. Triplecheck all cable arrangements and jumper settings.

Not to mention whatever tweaks you do to your system and a computer is only the sum of it's parts.

The reason why you don't have to mess with the compatibility for MMM in XP is probly because XP's compatibility is more updated, I'll look at what changes were added to XP and see if porting the Compatibikity files to 2000 fixes it.

That's because NT4 doesn't support USB. You buy USB programs for alot of $$$ or if you get lucky you MIGHT find a company that wrote a specific driver to get their USB device to work under NT4 but they will be VERY hard to find. I suggest upgrading 'em to NT5 or find some other solution.