JonL

Oh have I had fun with this.... NOT! Don't try it on the same machine as you're running Active Directory and/or DNS Server. There is an article floating around on the MS site which basically says that it "may not work". I think should read "will not work". We certainly can't get it to work at work, but having said that we've not installed any of the updates - we're running plain old build 2195 on both server and client. To do it on a machine that isn't running DNS server, simply set your IP address to 192.168.0.1 and subnet 255.255.255.0. Then goto to your dial-up connection and open its properties dialog. The last tab is sharing. Make sure both boxes are checked. Then goto the client machine and set it's gateway to 192.168.0.1 and it helps if the IP address and the subnet mask are close to this too, say 192.168.0.2 and 255.255.255.0. (We have DHCP doing this for us - works a treat) Then in IE, open the Internet options box and goto the connections tab. Set the dial-up connection to "Never dial" and goto the LAN settings at the bottom. Set everything to blank in here, including all the check boxes. Don't use a proxy server or anything like that. That worked for us, until we installed DNS server of course. We're now trying proxy software to see if that can do it with DNS installed... seems to be working so far. Good luck, JonL

I've always shied away from using NTFS because no other OS can read NTFS partitions. With NT4, I would always make my system drive (c: drive) a FAT16 partition so that should the system crash I could recover the system using a normal DOS boot disk. I still stick to the same rules for 2K for the same reasons. JonL [This message has been edited by JonL (edited 09 February 2000).]

Yet another question for you folks to ponder over... I get really slow frame rates in my games, mainly playing Q3A and Grand Prix Legends. They're like really jerky, especially when playing single player with a load of bots or on a LAN. Spec: Dual PII 400 GA-6BXD MB 128Mb 100Mhz RAM Voodoo 3000 AGP (Driver ver 5.0.2195.9) ISDN Card NetGear FA310TX NIC Win2K Final I would have thought with a machine like this they should run pretty hot, my Win98 install version on single PII 400 using a much older motherboard runs better. I've got two things in mind that could be causing the problem 1) video drivers - does anyone know which version of the Voodoo3 drivers for Win2K are the fastest and will run Q3A (not too worried about Grand Prix Legends) 2) my network card shares an IRQ with my USB controller - ACPI has called it IRQ 19 although I know it's really IRQ 11 Oh, and another thing - what does SMP actually stand for? Thanks for you help, JonL OK - I seem to alway pick the wrong board - maybe this should be in the games section sorry..! Anyway having read some more of the games section I'm getting the message that Voodoo3 drivers do not support SMP - thus making my dual processors pointless for game playing right now. Does this apply to just Q3A or to all games - and is there any way around this problem - buying a nice big fat geforce card for example? Cheers, Jon [This message has been edited by JonL (edited 08 February 2000).]

OK, touch wood things are going OK now. Two "beta" flash bios upgrades from gigabyte seemed to allow it to run in "ACPI Multiprocessor PC" mode. I still get freaky IRQ numbers (19 now - better than 128) and two devices using the same IRQ, but they're all working fine. I'm going to cross my fingers and hope things stay that way! Thanks for your help folks, JonL

Great thanks. The DirectX dialog did say only 1 CPU. In my device manager under the computer item I have something called "Advanced Configuration & Power Interface (ACPI) PC". So I changed this to say ACPI Multiprocessor PC and it does file copying etc etc and then on reboot just hangs! It won't even go into safe mode. So then I reinstall (again - from scratch!) and try setting it to MPS Multiprocessor PC this time, and bingo, it works fine... 2 CPUs, the lot, until... I find that it tries to assign my ISDN adapter to IRQ 31 (31? eh - how many IRQs does a PC have) and my network card... wait for it... to IRQ 128 or 44... depending upon its mood. The strange thing is that the network card works fine whilst it's on IRQ 128 or 44 but the ISDN adapter doesn't. I know that PCs only ave 15 IRQs, so... can someone explain what's going on... please help! Many thanks JonL

I got my T2 to work fine by adding it as a customer 2 axis, 4 button joystick and then setting the 'is a race car controller setting'. Make sure you use the little adapter thing that comes with the wheel, I always had loads of trouble with 9x when not using it, so I'm using it in Win2K also. JonL

I've just installed Win2K final (as downloaded from MSDN) and find that the processor type reported by the checking tool says "Uniprocessor Free". Also, when Windows starts an entry is put into the event log calling it the Uniprocessor Free version. What's this all about? Isn't W2K meant to support two processors? I've instlled it on a dual processor machine - is the second chip wasted...? Thanks in advance JonL