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Below 128mb is NOT worth it for XP. 128MB BARE minimum JUST for XP itself. If your gonna run any programs on top then youre gonna net 192mb. 256 is the commonly recommended ammount. That'll be fine for desktop working and minimal gaming. But you're still gonna have to close programs and monitor your memory usage if your a pro. If a newbie then 256 will be enough for ya. 384mb is the sweet spot. All most users need today running Windows XP and what high-end systems should be running at least. 512mb+ is for those who NEED this amount of memory and know what to do with it. Load all sorts of programs (within reason) and don't have to worry about memory usage that much if at all.

XP/98 dual-boot for those newbie home users that like to play ALL of their games. No diff betwen 2k/XP for the power user really. Depends on alot of factors such as your level of experties, how easily you are annoyed, how much you like dealing with annoyances that shouldn't really be there. I'll still be running 2K for the foreseeable future until .NET Server goes GOLD then I'll probly switch to that for my desktop OS. 2K for business I find it odd that many people are upgrading their business workstations to an OS that doesn't have a service pack and that's barely been out a year. Geesh, the server OS of XP isn't even out yet you IJITS!

The GF4 of course. It's just a supped up GF2 and not worth it for high resolution work but it's definetly the best of the 2.

Have you tested that the modem on the server actually works? Tried dialing an ISP or somesuch? Is the server modem refusing incoming calls or waiting for a certain number of calls before answering? What are you going to use the dialup on the server for? Internet connectivity or somesuch from a remote locations? If so I recommend using the more advanced Remote Access in Windows 2000 than just going to My Network Places properties. The Remote Access is ALOT more advanced and although it may SEEM more complicated it really isn't. Also MAKE SURE YOU GO THROUGH EACH AND EVERY SINGLE OPTION. SIT DOWN AND DO IT. Don't try to blaze through it in a microsecond. Although it may seem like a simple task there are options that should/should not be checked and security concerns to be taken into consideration. (call-back for instance).

What controller do you have those drives connected to? Must be the onboard one because I haven't seen such high utilization numbers in awhile. Have you turned on DMA and updated your busmaster drivers?

I'm going on a trip pretty soon for about 2 months and I dread leaving my desktop behind. So I need a laptop. Here's what I found so far: I do lots of stuff on my desktop. From the latest games to the oldest games. Burning CDR's. Watching DVD's. Emulation ala Connectix Virtual PC/Vmware. Store huge amount of files (my backup is 40+gb which I plan on taking with me. OS planned for use on my laptop is Windows 2000 Pro. No dual-boot's since they are not needed and all the games I need to play work fine on it. Networking with computers at destination Modem for RAS to connect at work here in the UK. I just checked out Dell and saw the Inspiron 8100. So far I've decided on the: 1.2ghz P3 512MB SDRAM PC133 2 chips 2nd battery (is there anyway to remove the software products? I'd like to get the price down to a minimum) 60GB HD 16XCDR/DVD built-in. (Probably crappy 16XCDR/DVD but looks like there's no choice. Will probably get an external Plextor later if the built-in doesn't fit my needs) Floppy Drive Xircom 10/100 + 56k modem. (Hope this turns out alright...would like a better namebrand but the Xircom's for the laptops at work, work fine) Geforce 2 GO 32MB DDR (Noticed the Radeon 7500 but you can't pick the higher monitor for the laptop and also drivers are a MAJOR consideration for me. So NOONE BASH ME FOR NOT GETTING ONE OTHERWISE YOU WILL JUST BE SHOWING YOUR LOW IQ. I want to use this laptop for desktop/Gaming for 5+ years....I KNOW the GEFORCE will last that long. The Radeon will not. Harmon Kardon External Speakers And that's about it. So far it runs around $3,504. Questions: I was wondering if anyone can recommend a better model or if someone has bought this model before any problems/recommendations they may have?

I used that Nvidia Refresh Rate prog. Worked fine for me. Mabye it was because I used the Nvidia 2.7.51 driver .inf for the 27.70 drivers? Dunno.

Just tried the latest 27.70's in 2k/XP. Work good.

I recently had a similar situation as yours but it was caused by a bad HD. Plug in IDE cable and computer boots but no beeps. Unplug IDE cable and computer boots. The KT7A bios is alot less helpful when something goes wrong than my VP6 bios.

Have you tried botting the computer only with the components it needs? Remove all cables/cards etc.etc... I noticed you said you cleared the CMOS but are you sure that you did? If you short the jumper properly then you will be unable to turn on the computer. Now remove the power card. Set the jumper back to previous position. Replace power cord. Boot up computer. Also make sure that the mobo is not shorting out against the case.

A remote is nothing like a printer. ;( You guys are looking at 2 entirely different markets. A corporate environment would rather buy it's own cables with it's printers. (Assuming that the person doing the ordering listen's to the tech who know's what they are doing ;( ) An ignorant home user stopping by Best Buy/Walmart and picking up a printer couldn't care less and a cable included would most likely work in 95% of all cases. I'm with clutch on making your own cables and such. Pre-made cables are terrible.

Download and run this: http://www.teresaudio.com/memtest86/ Check the cooling on that processor.

Because CStrike is an OGL game? Why the heck are you trying to run in D3D anyway if you have OGL? D3D is in CStrike for those cards that have terrible or no OGL drivers like when Half-Life was first released and the ATI OGL drivers were not worth mentioning.

Check permissions on the Hard drives. Make sure that the user has rights to their own folder.

ehhh, Back when Windows 95 came out. I was using just Dos, from 1991-1994 I was using a 286 at home with 1mb of ram and I could run Windows 3.1 but only in standard mode. So basically I'd just load it up to check out Win3.1 but pretty much didn't do anything with it because there wasn't much point. DOS programs at that time were FAR more graphically pleasing than Win3.1 games. Even Win32 didn't come close. Then I picked up a new 486DX4/100 with 12mb of RAM. Installed 95 on my brand spakin new machine. Stuck in my 95 demo disc. Nothing worked! Woohoo! I still had to boot into DOS to play my games because there weren't any good Windows 95 games out yet. In fact the day before I received my new computer I bought Mechwarrior 2...which guess what.. Only ran in DOS! Windows 95 was a buggy POS when it first came out but it was a nice little improvement over Windows 3.1. Not NT4...now that was nice. Was actually able to get some work done dual-booting with NT4/95/98.

Come on Clutch. Just looking at this: http://www.cert.mil/antivirus/mcafee.htm gives me a nauseous feeling in my stomach. While looking at this: http://www.cert.mil/antivirus/symantec.htm makes me feel good!

?? IIS is far older than Apache.

Hmmm, See if you can boot from the included PC-DOS boot disk. (Is there one in the trial?), Once booted perform a SYS C:. Boot from the HD now. Attach the DOS Additions image to the floppy. Run the additions installer on the floppy. Run the DOS Fshare.exe to implement shared folders. (Remember to add lastdrive=z to your config.sys!) Share your folder to where the DOS files are located on your HD! Copy the DOS files to your HD. See if you can run the installer now. Sigh. This would be so much easier with a floppy drive. If the above doesn't work...email me and we'll figure out something privately.

Viruses shouldn't be a problem for you at all in today's world. If you are using a Norton Antivirus Gateway to scan all incoming/outgoing email to strip all extensions that have to do with viruses. That stops almost all the viruses right there. Install AV for Exchange on all exchange servers as a second line of defense to the gateway. This is especially handy if your Exchange servers have NEVER had any virus scanner programs installed on them before. Before I took control there was pretty much NO AV protection on this base. When I started implementation I discovered THOUSANDS of virus hits on my Exchange Server's email and throughout the base. It was a mess. The other 1% are users bringing floppies from home into work onto their desktops. That's HIGHLY discouraged in the military workplace and should be discouraged in yours as well. Make sure an AV client is installed on the clients computers. Now my network is tight as far as AV is concerned. Haven't had a virus come through here at all....wait a sec..there was once...before I tightneded the gateway. The extensions came unblocked due to some idiots messing around and some viruses were able to get through. That is the ONLY time in the last 2yrs of this base having a virus hit. Even then the Exchange AV/AV clients caught it before it could cause any harm.

Finally got around to playing around with SMS yesterday. Didn't know how to create a package and distribute it so I took a quick peek at the Microsoft Technet Security Toolkit and it told be all I needed to know. Got Windows 2000 SP2 to start distributing that very same night. Came in the next morning and started looing over all the properties for the settings. Decided to make some changes (The hardware/software queries were running every single day! 8) 8) ). Then I decided to mess with the permissions because some genius never put the passwords in our Master Password List. DOH! Well I messed too much and stopped SMS from distributing. Finally figured out that I needed to do a site reset. Stuck in SMS 2.0 SP1 CD and it complained about NT4 Terminal Services so I removed Windows 2000 Terminal Services from the box and setup resumed. Unfortunately the Site Reset option was grayed out! Finally grew a brain after a couple of seconds and ran SP3 which provided the option to reset and found the problem...seems I switched it from integrated authentication to the other option which prevented SMS from communicating. So I switched it to Integrated. Rebooted and away it went! YAY! Anyways, I need to apply permissions to the registries of about 600-700 machines. Now I could do it via logon script but I've got SMS here and I want to do it that way. This is an NT4 Domain with NT4/NT5 machines. Unsure what I need to do. I *think* that I need a CL tool that could apply permissions or do I need to create a local workstation policy and use the built-in tools in NT to apply the policy? (So Simply distribute a batch file with the policy to execute on each machine?) Remeber this is an NT4 Domain so no Group Policy. ANybody have any hints and tips? I could figure this stuff out myself but I'm extremely pressed for time and why waste it when I can get the good stuff here.

Have you played around with the 2000 templates? Was thinking about pushing compatws.inf to all my 2000 machines via SMS but am unsure. Compatws doesn't seem to have the Password policy/Auditing policies that the securews.inf seems to have. I'm guessing that I'm going to have to integrate the 2 somehow.

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http://www.cgonline.com/features/020226-f1-f1.html ;( The least they could do is mention: SOUND IN NTVDM BOXES VDMSound/SFX2000 Microsoft's pathetic implementation of sound in NTVDM Boxes. The seem to assume that the sound card in your system matters to the DOS box in XP. It doesn't. The NTVDM Sound card is an SB card at Port 200 IRQ 5 DMA 1. The host sound card doesn't matter. As long as it's there and can be "seen" by the NTVDM box then SB emulation can occur. EMULATION Virtual PC. Vmware Bochs DosBox Do a little research on the games that don't work. www.ntcompatible.com ? The could mention that the DOS games that worked in XP don't work in 2k...or vice versa. All in all. It's a nice little read but they could have done a little bit more work.

Yep, our work has the Technet Plus subscription. Of course I'm the only one who uses it. Comes in handy. Thanks for the queries!

The 23.11 Nvidia drivers are the latest from www.nvidia.com IIRC, the 16.xx series isn't officialy compatible XP.