FrogMaster

I intend to install W2K on my secondary machine (MSI 6163 pro mobo with celery 466@583Mhz). What about cloning the W2K partition of my main box to the other one?

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Bös??? What the f**k is bös??? Was ist böst???

See you man ...

I have the manual too and just read it. I have searched my trash bin to dig out this board and its manual (been there for one year). Asus says this jumper is for testing purposes only. It should rise the voltage for the dimms. I think you can try. It should not rise too much since the power supply on this board is quite weak. They knew that. That's why they added this jumper as a last chance solution I have thrown 100$ out of the window when I bought this `@^]" piece of junk

SeBa, At 3.5 V, the voltage is already out of specs! At 3.8 V you may well overheat or kill part or all your memory chips. Believe me, the P5A is a piece of s**t. Sell it or throw it out of the window and get a decent super 7 like the PA2013.

I've already done that but it was from a BP6 to another BP6 (same board type, different bioses) with a repair install. All apps stayed there. All third party drivers were reinstalled. I believe it should be OK for you as far as it is the same chipset on the old and the new board. The only prob could come from too different bioses. If it is the case, then the best solution is to do a reinstall on top of existing installation. Apps should stay there. In both case, my advice would be to remove critical 3rd-party drivers (at least video) before. Anyway, I think it is worth trying as it should not do any harm.

It seems that some batches of BP6 motherboards have a defective VTT voltage regulator which causes random lock-ups. You may want to have a look at www.bp6.com for the full story, the serial numbers involved and a possible fix.

The cd key is printed on a sticker on the back of the cd jacket...

Strange ... They worked for me for two days ... then I get black screen in D3D ... but the apps seem to run "fine" behind it. Have to blind ctrl-alt-del and re-log to recover. It just stopped working with UT without apparent reason. No new installs or tweaks in the meantime. Dxdiag does the tests OK thu. I'm puzzled. OpenGl runs OK and fast. I wonder why it screwed itself in D3D

My sticky keys prob seems to have gone away (cross fingers)! Like most of you guys, I had a severe sticky keys prob until last Saturday when I did the following : - manually assign irq and dmas in the bios for the sound card - disable com2 in the bios to free an irq (I need not com2) - upgrade to 2195 (I was still on 2183 RC3 waiting for a bargain) - complete clean install - multiprocessor standard PC install (no ACPI). I have played a lot of Q3A games since, both on local with bots, on the lan and on the internet : no sticky keys I wonder which of the above has done the trick. Maybe assigning stuff to the sound card AND disabling COM2 to free resources brought some stability? PS: I use 5.14 drivers.

Thanks APV_SAV Fortunately I did not flash yet because I was busy with testing 5.16 and DX8 beta.

I've been playing with them for one hour now. Seem OK. Need to do some benchmarking tomorrow. SMP not yet enabled (usual Q3A crash)

This thread is really going out of control! As you have seen, Jdul has started another topic. PLZ Admins, it is time to open a new section entirely dedicated to our friend. Title could be "MiscTechnoParanoidStuff"

It need not more voltage. It is a problem of current drain. If you increase the voltage, you only make things worse because doing so, you increase still more the current drain! Here is a quote from Guillemot's site: begin quote "Maxi Gamer Xentor 32 BIOS update for Asus P5A, Asus P2B-F and Gigabyte 686LX3 motherboards ONLY. If you do not own any of these motherboards, DO NOT UPDATE YOUR BIOS. This new BIOS has been developed to solve the incompatibility problem of some motherboards with Maxi Gamer Xentor 32. The AGP 2.0 specification requires a power supply of 6A at 3.3 volts for the AGP port. Maxi Gamer Xentor 32 consumes up to 6A at 3.3 volts when running 3D games, but some motherboards fail to deliver more than 5A. As a result, the PC crashes in 3D games when the motherboard fails to deliver sufficient power intensity to the Maxi Gamer Xentor 32 AGP port. This new BIOS reduces the power consumption of the Maxi Gamer Xentor 32 board by lowering the clock speed from 175 MHz to 150 Mhz. With these modifications, these motherboards will be able to supply the proper current required by Maxi Gamer Xentor 32." end of quote. Average CPU load is heavier in Win2K than in Win98. This means more amps to feed it and more load for the voltage regulators. You may well be just at the limit : no crash in Win98, crashes in Win2K because of a few hundred milliamps difference. Try to downclock everything a little bit, reduce CPU voltage, both or one at a time and see what happens. I may be wrong but it's worth trying

The P5A is well-known to have weak on-board power supply. For example, Guillemot had to release a special bios for their TNT2s which lowered the power drain of the video card on the P5A's AGP bus (you may want to read the story at their site). Win2K puts more strain on the hardware than Win98. When you launch a 3D app with everything plugged in, maybe you just put the motherboard's voltage regulators to their knees. I had this prob last year with such a board when I built a system for a relative. I brought it back to the retailer and traded it back for another super 7, maybe a Fic PA2013

When I was with RC3, I installed first without ACPI then with. It seems there was no particular incidence on the sticky key prob. This fresh gold install is standard multiprocessor. Irq 9 is not cannibalized by ACPI and my video card sits alone and quietly on Irq 3 (freed from Com2). ATA66 controller is happy with the freed Irq 9. As for this RU beta bios, I'll flash it tonight and see what happens. I'm not faint-hearted when I tweak

I downloaded and gave a try to DirectX 8 beta last night. Seems to run OK. I only tested it with UT, FogCity benchmark, a few D3D gadget-progs and DXDiag. No prob whatsoever

Welcome home man

The exe you need is GlQuake.exe. It will run flawlessly and very fast in open GL in Win2k. There is also a special version of this exe which enables fog, mirror effects, etc. If you do a search on such sites as planetquake.com, stomped.com, telefragged.com or even maybe 3dfiles.com, you'll find them. GlQuake has been released some 3 years ago I think. The other exe is more recent and seems to be still under development by a bunch of fanatics . I definitely love this game. It has been sitting among my favorites on one of my hds since Win95 times with around one gig of additional levels and mods.

You may also want to try RegTweak, a nice little prog which will do the job of reading and setting reg keys for you. You'll find it at reactorcritical, nvidia/utilities section.

Has anyone already tried the new BP6_RU bios which is on the ABIT ftp site? No txt file to tell what is new, if anything.

Did you try disabling AGP support in DXdiag? You may also reduce AGP aperture in the bios to 16 MB or less. This should disable AGP 2x. Worth checking

Yes, It was RC3. Very little difference with final I've been told. Previous clean installs did not eliminate the symptom. A lot of people with final have the problem anyway. I am more and more convinced that this is a resource issue. From the origin 20 years ago, the PC hardware design is irq driven and the memory lay-out very complicated. Modern OSses put too much strain on it.

Sorry forgot two pts: I reduced L2 cache latency from 5 to 3. Don't think it's important thu, tis good for speed, maybe not for stability. My rig's specs: ------------------ Abit BP6 - QQ bios - 2*Celery@583 MHz - 192 MB Pc100 Ram - Seagate 6 GB - Seagate 4 GB - HPT66 IBM 20 GB Ultra 66 - Iomega // Zip100 - Toshiba DVD SD-M1212 - CDR Sony CDU 928E - HP Deskjet 815C - Philips Vesta Pro Webcam - NIC HP 10/100 - Elsa Erazor X2 GeForce 256 DDR - Sound Blaster AWE 32- Alcatel 1000 ADSL - Dual boot WIN2K Pro 2195 and Win 98