FrogMaster

For those who want to edit registry files off-line or on-line, here is a nifty free little program called RegLite http://www.resplendence.com/registry/reglite.htm It allows navigating hives and copy/paste/edit very easily in an explorer-like UI

I do not know about .NET but here is a tip under W2K to repair a damaged unbootable registry. This is an offline registry editing trick. Set up a minimal parallel install in a differently named system folder. For example, install to be repaired in \WINNT, parallel install in \WINNT5. Boot the parallel install. Remove the hidden attribute of the target damaged hive in \SYSTEM32\CONFIG\ (for example "system") and make a backup copy, just in case... From the parallel install, run regedt32 and "load" the damaged hive into the relevant section and give it a name when prompted to do so. Any fancy name will do it, such as "I_Will_Rock_You" or "Come_On_Baby" Make the changes and "unload" the hive which is written back to the damaged hive. This is safe as nothing is written to the "parallel" hive. Just worth trying if not already done Mileage may vary as there may be sometimes write-back errors. Just try again with a new backup copy of the hive.

Hemmm, Human_Chaos|TC| You should do something about your "site". You are showing all your stuff to the world. I am not sure it is intentional. Took me a couple of minutes to be able to take ownership of it 8) I mean to be able, not I did. I potentially could have been able to ftp anything there. Take measures to protect it, please

Hmmmm, these bugs look like the "hall of mirrors" effect rather than texture bugs. Does this happen on all UT maps or only on some specific ones? If only on specific ones, I would say that those maps are badly built and have bsp holes. The game's engine tries to fill in the bsp "blackholes" with the most recent stuff it has rendered, thus this effect of repeating textures in some areas like when two mirrors are face to face and render endlessly each other's content.

How do you run it? D3D or OGL? Another thought: 256 Megs memory may be on the low end and you are swapping textures from the HD. W2K itself wants alot of memory to run. UT is also a memory hog.

Hi Alec! Nice to "see" you online What seems to have happened is that those two drives were given and were "remembering" drive letters that were already attributed to other drives. How did this happen and why? I dunno. Trojan? Like their drive letters were "hardwired" and therefore hidden by other drives. I solved the issue by removing all drives but the boot one (C: ) and hooking back all the drives one by one and have the os take them with reboots in-between. They were recognised by W2K as soon as they were hooked according to the right rank/letter. Ntfs weirdness and/or security?

Never mind Problem solved

For selective startup you may want to use msconfig.exe. There is a W2K compatible version floating around (can't remember where to dl, likely from Microsoft site). Edit: There is a story here: http://www.techadvice.com/win2000/m/msconfig_w2k.htm

Well, I just browsed all my disks from dos with Readntfs.exe utility. As expected, they are all there, fit and healthy. No disk and content missing in action. Was able to copy files from missing drives to a fat32 drive hooked as slave on an ide port. Why does W2k does not see them????? Hey, all the big nt guys, where are you? Clutch, Dosfreak, Alecstar and other experts? Is this forum dead? I think I have lost ownership of the volumes under W2K. Virus? Trojan? How to recover ownership of something the os does not even see? I challenge you guys. Sort this out. Just for fun

Thanks for answering Here is a picture of the situation: - there is no foreign disk that shows to import in the Disk Management console - refresh and rescan have no visible effect - first culprit disk shows up in device manager on ide 2 and the hardware type is properly recognised by W2K - second missing disk hardware identification cannot be seen because it sits on the promise ide 1, I assume - promise controller runs with Lumberjacker pure ultra dma bios which works OK (no raid array ever built, just plain vanilla ultra-ata ide) - all four disks are properly seen by mobo bios and promise bios at boot up - all four disks sit on their own ide channel (no shared channel) - the missing disks were never set to dynamic - I have just installed another instance of W2K on another partition in a folder with a different name and the picture is exactly the same on that new install, ie the two disks are still missing - I log on as administrator, no password ever set, and I have all administration permissions - the box has been running like a charm for half a year until I uninstalled the AstonShell desktop enhancement app Well I could format every thing and start from scratch a clean install of the whole box. I will not do it before knowing what is happening. A nice case for NTFS experts out there! :x

Thanks, will try that tonight when I am in front of the machine but I do not remember to have seen the option "import foreign disk" enabled in Disk Management console. That would mean W2K does not see the hardware at all. Maybe time to format and reinstall has come ;(

Hi all! Two of my HDs out of four are no longer shown in "my computer". One is connected to ide 2 and the other to the promise ide port 1. The mobo is an ASUS A7V333. They used to be shown. This happened after I uninstalled AstonShell that I wanted to test drive (got rid of it because it does not support dual display). I made a repair install but the drives still do not show. At boot-up, the mobo's bios sees all the drives on ide 1/2 and the promise bios sees the other ones on ports 1 and 2. Fdisk sees all my drives as fit with correct size and as NTFS file system. The W2k command console does not see the drives. I tested the two drives in another machine which shows and accesses them without a hitch. I even changed the ide cables to be sure. No virus was found on the drives. The drives are connected to two completely independant interfaces (regular ide and promise) so that I cannot believe they just died at the same time! What has likely happened? Could it be that W2k does not mount these two drives and why? Is there a way to get W2K mount them? Help much welcome.

Bios issue? This is the link to bios revisions history: http://www.abit.com.tw/abitweb/webjsp/english/download_content.jsp?pTITLE=BE6-IIBios It seems some bios revision solved a similar issue.

Hi! What kind of slotket do you use? You have to get one with these jumper that makes it compatible with Coppermine cpus (reset and vid pins as far as I remember). I owned a BX6-2 long ago. I believe it is very similar to yours. PIII worked fine with it (with the proper slotket). Best slotkets are 1/ Asus 2/Abit Ah, yes, clear cmos before booting the new cpu! Ooops I see it is a slot1 cpu. Must be tired x) Clear cmos anyway. Voltage may be a prob too.

OK, new bench with dets 40.41 Same set up as previously. 2d stuff in the bottom of the screen to get some more fps without touching quality. - no aniso, no antialias : 204 fps - aniso x8, antialias 4, texture sharpening : 113 - aniso x8, quincunx antialias, texture sharpening : 165 These new detonators rock; the new control panel (à la 3dfx tools) is great. Texture sharpening (new feature) + antialias is the perfect combination!