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I wouldnt bet that Creative will deliver their promises in time. They ****ed up before, they will do it again. As far as voice comm in CS goes, I kinda still prefer BattleCom Unless anyone can post a script that allows voice activated speech instead of keypress. U can be long dead if u mix up the reload with the "talk" key...

Go back to Windows 2000...

For those of you being bothered by it... Start > Run > RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%INFmsmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove -or- Edit Windows.inf sysoc.inf: find the line msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7 and remove hide, so you have msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7 then Windows Messenger will appear in Windows Components under Add/Remove Programs. Njoy.

I think you have the wrong crack for CDRWin

There's many ways to skin a cat...

I had no problems whatsoever with CS, therefore you cannot say its a bug. It can lay in different areas: 1. Net performance low (low pings generate jerky movements) 2. Graphic Details set too high by default (nvidia drivers) 3. Too much Hdd paging (not enough RAM available) Post your system config next...

The downloads or traffic in general does not have to be on the client side in order to affect performance. In other words, if you play CS and the server is downloading like crazy, then your ping will be affected. Did anyone think that maybe since the 11, 12th of September the whole world is on www.cnn.com or watching streaming newsfeeds?

If i were you I would start looking at some other software. Roxio has still the bugs in ECDC 5 and W2K to fix, and they are surely taking their time...or was it fixxed in the meantime?

Yes there surely is. I am currently using a tiny app called Proxy+ that does the same thing as Winroute/Gate. I had some headaches with this **** Winroute and I decided to throw it off the window. Oh, btw. went back to W2K SP2 in the meantime

I would wait first to see if there is appropriate support for it, namely XP SP1 Put it this way, if your hardware works with no probs under W2K, then you are guaranteed a solid XP platform. Look how long it took to include ATA100 support in W2K, or how many patches and tweaks are for NVidia cards and AMD CPUs under W2K. Did you see anything close to this in Intel's case?

"Maxtor 6GB(5400 rpm)Hard Drive" Are you kidding?????

You could have used the "old" nvidia refresh rate fix if you ran it in W2K compatibility mode...it worked for me.

The actual link has moved here: http://stfu.wox.org/winxp/blah.html

I have some worries about the Devilsown release....dunno why, but something is not right...I had some weird BSODs with it, and I was locked out of the OS: could not login (choose an user) because of "authentication errors" with M$...Does anyone else have weird XPeriences?

To be sincere I am more excited about W2K SP3 than XP Final

NAV 2002 supposedly...

In my case, it takes a considerable ammount of time before all the taskbar icons appear after logon...no clue why.

Does your BSOD have to do with "DriverIRQ not less or equal...2?

Im going to describe this exactly, so bare with me for a second! Installed RC2 (2526) on my Athlon PC a week ago, system ran fine, with no problems whatsoever. I did a clean install of 2600 a few days ago, with 2 pieces of new hardware added: a second 8139 Network card and a 256 MB PC266 Samsung/Hyundai DIMM. First occurence of the BSOD in the setup process (DriverIRQ not less or equal). I cold rebooted, tried to install again, it worked. System ran for about 48h without problems until SUDDENLY got the same BSOD. Rebooted, but i could not even log myself in, due to "authentication problems". I was locked out of my system! I wiped out the C partition (format C, fdisk /mbr), and tried to install W2K. During the setup process I had problems with copying the files(!?) from the setup cd, such situation i never had before. I thought it was a bad DIMM, i moved it to another slot, and windows installed and booted w/o problems (no file errors on copying this time!). PC ran for another day or so, and last night i installed WinGate (proxy software) to share my internet connection. After reboot, i got the SAME BSOD everytime at the same point (after half way on the scrolling indicator in the W2K bootscreen). Now comes the interesting part: I removed the new DIMM and the second NIC and i still had the BSOD at boottime! I booted safe mode, removed WinGate and system booted OK, installed the DIMM and the NIC again sytem was OK again. Can anyone explain what is happening here?? Anyone has the slightest idea what may cause this? I thought it might be the second DDR DIMM but i ruled it out since i got the same BSOD even w/o it. ----------------------------------------------------- System Spex: AthlonC @ 1333, EPOX 8KHA DDR Mobo, 512 MB DDRAM CAS 2.5, Asus V7100 Deluxe GeForce2 MX400 TVout, Maxtor 20GB ATA100 5400 RPM, SB Live! XGamer, Pioneer 16x DVD, LiteOn 1201B CDRW, 2x Realtek 8139 10/100 NICs.

Try the new 20.xx series on the Nvidia site. They boast XP support apparently. I had the 12.41 (the previous "official" drivers) and had no problems whatsoever...

Usually the burning software reports it in the device characteristics. In Nero you can see it under "Drive Info" i think...

The NVidia refresh rate fix works if you run it in W2K compatibility mode. It worked for me...

Nero by itself works fine. After i installed Cdrwin i couldnt see my burner cos there is no interface (aspi layer) found. I tried that "forceaspi" batch proggy but nothing changed. I use now a 6k proggy that converts bin/cue to ISO and i burn that in Nero...that solves the Cdrwin problem

When installing press the F5 key i think to select Standard PC. But the APM has nothing to do with the Multiprocessor HAL as far as I know....

Try to change the computer type from ACPI to Standard PC, or disable Plug and Play OS in the BIOS.