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Cannot find them The guys who beta-test GeForce 2s may have non-disclosure agreements either with Nvidia or oems. If they leak the drivers, they are out of business. I'm sure they will leak very soon

OK guys. I finally got one of those HP J2585b nic cards from my company's IT guy for a couple of beers . Good stuff. They use hundreds of them in their networks and are happy with them. It will sit at the front end of my system. I'll follow your recommendations guys for the other cards in my network and send to the bin this noname-nowhere Realtek crap and get some cheap and good stuff from Aopen. Thx all of you. Take care.

APV_SAV, it will be an all Win2k setup except for the NT laptop. I agree there is a lot of hype attached to some brands. But is this enough to explain one order of magnitude price gap?

Thx Simon. I suspect some of these cheap Realtek no-name Nics of giving you no more than basic service and reliability. I have already noticed random and unexplainable packet losses that seemed to disappear with borrowed Hewlett Packard (damn expensive ones!)cards. As I may have rather heavy traffic on some occasions at both sides of the server/firewall, for example two simultaneous on-line Q3A games or MP3 downloads, I cannot afford to give too many packets away.

Thx for your input Volitaire. I want the home network I am planning to be as reliable and safe as possible, with a solid Internet sharing connection. In fact three PCs (one of them the laptop I use for homework, thus the need for safety) attached to a hub behind a fourth one acting as a server and as a firewall between my ADSL connection and the Internet. In your opinion would it be worth spending some extra bucks for a pair of branded medium- to high-end Nic cards at least in this fourth PC which would be the most critical and loaded component in this system?

) ) ) This thread will go to the 7th page, believe me!!! Open all the available channels on your ATM connection to the same isp so that you create multiple concurrent virtual tunnels and bypass all the giga routers on the backbone that leads to Jul ... what? ... image ??? isp in order to hack his box and access all of his pre-teenage por*-images secret collection! Of course, if you do not dual pre-format your boot HD with DOS 5 and 6.2 AND not send an "cd/dos/ cd/dos/dos cd.." ( am I right DosFreak ?) command over the net, you won't see anything. Is that the way you grabbed this photo?

No reason to be scared !!! I have a similar setup and it works fine. ACPI multiprocessor OK! MPS 1.4 OK! USB OK! Hibernate OK! What else ??? ... OK! Everything is OK !?!?! (Yes, I know, for me...) :]

Just launched GlQuake for fun. It runs OK with 5.14. I had not played it since a few centuries ago, I bet! It was and is still a great game anyway. The Reaper bot is the greatest bot ever written. Ok, old timers, tis time to go to bed! Tomorrow will be another day...

Dragon-Lord, For me, image quality is better at 1024x768 without FSAA than at 640x480 with FSAA (given playable fps). On my 19" monitor, 640x480 is simply ugly! Lower res maybe relevant though on 14/15". I believe next generation rigs commonly available in a few months (1 GHz+ cpus plus SLI'ed NV15/20 or whatever) will allow 1600x1200 and above without problem. At such high res, FSAA will have less impact. I could be wrong. Not sure.

Hi guys! I have just subscribed to ADSL service with my telco op and isp. The connection works great in Win98 after a very quick and simple set-up (just create a new connection after installing VPN service). My problem is that I am unable to get it working under W2K. I must have tried all possible configurations but I cannot connect to my ISP. Has anybody already set up an ADSL connection in W2K? Here are a few details: - modem : Alcatel 1000 HighSpeed modem - modem IP address : 10.0.0.138 (default) - my ADSL login looks like : yyy@xxx.zzz - my user name looks like : yyy - isp server name looks like xxx.zzz - my password looks like : abcdefgh - Nic card is standard 10/100 Realtek - isp service type is VPN PPT - nic card seems to see the modem attached to it (connection icon in the taskbar) Alcatel's doc is great for Win9x and NT but is no help for W2K. I must have missed something. Has someone a clue?

Thx GeOph! It works now and I share the connections through a hub. The problem was to configure properly both the local area connection AND the VPN connection so that they talk each other.

I posted : "I get 97 fps @1024x768 in Crusher demo with the best possible quality settings for Quake 2 ..." This is no hype as you seem to think. I should I have added that the GeForce is overclocked at 130/310 and the fsb runs at 106 MHz. AGP bus is thus running at 70+ MHz. DDR memory on the Erazor X2 is SGRAM which is slightly faster than regular DDRAM. All these factors cumulated seem to make the difference

I am a newbie to ADSL ( subscribed just a few days ago, see my post down in the topics list ) but what I understand is that if your ADSL modem is an external one attached to your nic card, you need not any driver for it. It should behave as a client on a network with its own IP address. You can ping it and maybe remote configure it. My Alcatel 1000 works that way in that it behaves as a small website where I can change all of its parameters. I know nothing about internal ADSL modems.

Must be something wrong with your setup guys! I get 97 fps @1024x768 in Crusher demo with the best possible quality settings for Quake 2 ... ------------------ Abit BP6 - QQb1 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 Realtek Fast - Elsa Erazor X2 GeForce 256 DDR - Sound card Yamaha Sax - Alcatel 1000 ADSL - Dual boot WIN2K RC3 "Free" and Win 98

Here are my Q3A figures with 5.14 : - demo001 : 64 fps - demo002 : 67 fps @ 1024x768, 32 bits, all settings maxed These fps are clearly CPU-bounded and the GeForce DDR is not fillrate limited on this rig ------------------ Abit BP6 - QQb1 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 Realtek Fast - Elsa Erazor X2 GeForce 256 DDR - Sound card Yamaha Sax - Alcatel 1000 ADSL - Dual boot WIN2K RC3 "Free" and Win 98

I just flashed with the final version of QQ bios. I see no difference with the beta version which had already MPS 1.4 with USB working in W2K. Maybe Abit have just certified the latest beta to final? I wonder...

Just gave them a short try! There is real improvement over 5.13 because the infamous Q3DM9 level is now playable in 32 bit @ 1024x768, everything max'd out! UT runs smoother in 32-bit D3D, for example on the huge Leandri DM level where I had some stuttering before with all settings maxed @ 1024x768. They seem to be stable. One bad point is that SMP still locks Q3A randomly, but I wonder if SMP is really usefull for this game (2-3 fps faster only when it works). I'll keep these for more testing. Nvidia seems to be on the right track.

W2K is on my C: drive and the paging file is on my faster E: drive and stays there. For that you have to define only one page file on only one disk for your whole system. Remove any additional definitions of paging files on drives you do not want.

Chameleon used to have a special setupreg.hiv file somewhere at his site which during installation, among other things, bypasses the version thing on the desktop. I have copied all the I386 folder on one of my harddisks for fast repairs or reinstalls in case of problem. I have replaced the original file with the one from Chameleon. Try at your own risk, blah blah... It works for me.

Take it easy, Llion! We all know about the search feature. We also all know that this is not always the best way to get latest return of experience from users of this forum. An answer posted one month ago do not necessarily close the debate on a particular subject. This forum is there to find helpful people and to help others. It is also a good place to start new discussions on topics which are still relevant and I think the debate about Nvidia drivers and GeForce is far from being closed. This forum is definitely not the monopolistic property of a few would-be gurus, a place where they could show their little knowledge and their lack of consideration for people they even do not know. Coming back to the question of our very respectable newby (or not newby) colleague, the answer to-day (maybe next month there will be a more relevant one, search button or not)is to go with 5.13 and Powerstrip until Nvidia releases a new set. This is my 0.02 cent contribution to the debate.

Thanks GeOph. Maybe I am too far minded and make things more complicated than they are. I'll try again tonight after another call to my isp's hotline. They must think I am dumb ... could be right ... It's the first time I do not succed to have something working in W2K

Still cannot connect under W2K!!! ( , with or without VPN. GeOph, would you post your step by step procedure to create a new connection through this @\#*$£§ modem? The one which works for you so that I have a reference? I am posting from Win98 which my ADSL modem seems to love!!

Thanks GeOph. I'll try to configure a new setup from scratch without VPN service, when I'm back home after work. Maybe just installing the modem as any other stuff showing an IP address to my home network will do the trick. My final purpose is to share this speedy connection between all the machines we have got here (fraggin' fests with low ping, he he... ). More news later If anybody else has some thoughts on this topic, tips are welcome. It seems that ADSL is developping fast now and it may be of great interest for many people to learn more about it.

For the last days, I have been working hard on a proposal to my Chairman and CEO for a Lotus Notes database structure. I think I really did a superior job, thorough and professional. Unfortunately it seems that my boss does not share my views. What do you think of the following : If you cannot dazzle your boss with genius, just baffle him with bull****. Comments and tips much appreciated.

Thanks DosFreak. I had to tell that to someone. I'll see if it works )