FrogMaster

I have got rid of the sticky keys problem!!! I opened my keyboard just to discover that the sticker with serial number, etc. on the controller was no longer attached to it. Believe me or not, the sticker had migrated - I believe because of internal heat build-up - to the hot keys! The glue, when melting, flowed to some key contacts and stuck them together. The solution is to disconnect the keyboard : no longer sticky keys!!! I have to check my mice now. I'll post asap I have put it apart. Maybe the solution is not to attach any keyboard or mice to the computer.

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Just install 5.13 drivers. No problem with Leadtek GeForce DDR. You won't have Leadtek tabs but Nvidia tabs. Same functionality. Works OK on my secondary box.

I have three machines running great. They are based on Abit BP6, Abit BX6-2 and MSI 6163 Pro. They are all three great motherboards. My favourite would be the MSI one. Very robust, very well designed, very flexible, very good overclockability, frequent bios updates. My main machine is built around the BP6 though, because of smp in W2K. If I were to change my mind, I would throw an ATA66 controller, a coppermine and a GEForce DDR at the MSI board. Maybe I'll do that if Nvidia do not move their **ses right now!

I never was able to have my pair of Voodoo's 2 working properly under W2K, with any combination of drivers. I usually just get a grey/green flash then a blank screen. At the 3dfx website they say that Voodoo 2 is not supported in W2K because of licensing issues with Microsoft. Anyway, I believe Voodoo 2 is now obsolete. In Win98, the SLI combo gives half the fps as compared to my GeForce DDR, moreover with only 16 bit rendering.

I just throw this one to help get faster to the 7th page!

DosFreak is right. You're expecting too much. The 40 fps figure you get with everything maxed out is consistent with a 450 MHz cpu with a crawling 75 MHz fsb. Finally I've done the test. I get 55/60 on my dual 583 MHz box (106 MHz fsb), 60/65 in smp mode when it does not lock. I get 65/70 under Win98. Regarding the pci issue, uninstall your video board, reboot in safe mode, delete oem*.inf file related to Nvidia, delete Nvidia entries in the registry, reboot, when prompted point to the location where the drivers sit, etc, etc, done. Check with dxdiag if AGP is enabled. Should be OK. Search this forum, all the info you need is there.

Please stoooooooooop this guy! otherwise we shall have another 7 page thread!

Here is my solution: 1/Train yourself to W2K for 120 days 2/While learning, spare the money to buy a retail copy (4 months should be OK) 3/You are done 4/You feel better.

One of your two Celeries may not like being o'clocked at 100 MHz fsb. Try rising fsb speed step by step to find where your combo fails then tweak the core voltage to see if it helps. W2K running perfect on similar config is quite common. ------------------ 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 - USR 56K Faxmodem - Dual boot WIN2K RC3 "Free" and Win 98

As far as I remember: 1/ press ~ to bring down the console 2/ type in timedemo 1 [enter] 3/ type in demo demo001 or 002 [enter] 4/ when done, press ~ again to read average fps in the console. Could be wrong. Did not run it for a while

Same number for minimum and maximum size is more efficient because the OS need not resize the page file and waste time and resources to do so. On my 192 Megs ram box, I put min=max=576 (3xram size) Megs for the page file. That's the right figure for my config and needs. I directed the file to the primary partition of my fastest drive : few and fast swaps. Your mileage may vary with what the hungriest of your apps requests there is still a lot of controversy about the optimum size.

Hi everybody! I have always had random lock-ups with r_smp 1, whatever the video drivers. I have tried everything but changing the sound card. Cholera what drivers do you use with your AWE32? I have one laying around and maybe I should give it a try

You are right man! A lot of people seem to have less memory than they have in their boxes. I remember it was a real pain at the beginning to have everything run under Win95. Just imagine we are next year: dual 1 GHz machines with Quake 4 or Unreal 2 running 200 fps at 1600x1200 in 32-bit with FSAA, T&L, stereo support, anything you are dreaming of... Those who flame W2K just piss me off. Let them play with gameboyz/girlz

Better give a try to 5.13. They are great

Yes, it is a little bit off-topic... but let's go: I have had similar symptoms with this mobo. I had a BX6-2 last year in my second machine, which did not seem to like too much being overclocked with more than 2 memory slots populated. On-board power supply? Memory timing? I remember having read somewhere that it was related to the six data buffer chips which do not follow the pace (they are there because of the load of the 4 memory slots and I suspect a weakness in the design). I did bring back the board to the retailer and got an MSI 6163 Pro which is more solid (for me). I run a 466 Celeron at 581 Mhz on this one. ------------------ 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 - USR 56K Faxmodem - Dual boot WIN2K RC3 "Free" and Win 98

Does that happen in D3D or in OpenGl? What does say DxDiag? Is AGP enabled? Is setting 16 or 32 bits? ------------------ 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 - USR 56K Faxmodem - Dual boot WIN2K RC3 "Free" and Win 98

After some more testing: -S3TC cabability of the opengl driver is natively detected by Q3A (look at the ugly sky in 32-bit mode!). -these drivers are as fast as the Win98 5.08 -all my opengl apps run OK, inc. screen savers. -D3D is very stable but a bit slower than 5.08. Picture quality is very good. -seems the drivers do not like SMP too much (or vice versa). Same random locks as usual. -when SMP is working, performance increase is only a few fps at the best. -TV-out option got greyed when I enabled the overclock tab. Is there some form of protection switch in there that prevents o'clocking in TV mode??? Something must be in the registry to tweak... -FSAA is only worth in 640x480 (playable speed) but is ugly on a 19" monitor. Conclusion: everytime Nvidia releases new drivers, I'm getting closer to kill my Win98 partition and use only W2K.

Whaoooooh!!! Speed is there (D3D and opengl)! S3TC is there! FSAA is there (don't care too much)! Property sheet is there! Clock adjustment is there! Stability in SMP mode is not there... TV out is not there... Bottom line: as fast (smoother than???) as Win98, rock-stable in non-smp. Nvidia, come on, move yur a** I luv yu!!! ------------------ 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 - USR 56K Faxmodem - Dual boot WIN2K RC3 "Free" and Win 98

I agree. PQ-PM is like Russian roulette. I have lost the equivalent of 70$ when I bought a copy to solve the same NTFS to Fat prob. PQ messed both W2K (completely) and WIN98 (partially) on my dual boot. I therefore paid 70 bucks for the pleasure to format/reinstall W2K and one hour to rebuild a bunch of shortcuts on the W98 side because PM changed drives letters without asking me for the permission to do so. I would definitely recommend PQ-PM to my best ennemy [This message has been edited by FrogMaster (edited 27 March 2000).]

I dunno understand what this is all about. All my antique DOS games run perfectly under W2K, without any exotic tweak or install! Just for fun I just played Corridor 7 (a doomlike fps crap for grannies). It launches its dos extender and runs like a charm, without sound of course. Next I try Flight Unlimited 1 for dos and come back to this thread to report. I can swear if this one works, anything will work under W2K. Those who know know what I mean

I did not know this one! Have you noticed guys that a clean install of W2K screws the "Any" key? To get it back just reinstall Dos 2.2 over Windows for Workgroups, then reformat your drive with CPM 3. After a dirty install of Linux, just run W2K from within a hacked GEM graphic interface (Amstrad 1985 version) you can download from Digital Research's BBS... There you get a full functionnal Apple 1 keyboard layout. That's it.

You may try editing the cfg file and enter there the resolution you want. Do a search in the file for keywords such as width and height.

I have recently launched a repair of my W2k to restore the boot sector which for some reason was messed up (dual boot W2k/Win98). After the repair, I discovered that Internet Explorer on the Win98 partition had been partially replaced by the version which comes with W2K! When I check the version, it says it is a Windows 2000 version. Dialing works and I can connect to my ISP but IE says that it is unable to display the requested page. When I try to reinstall IE 5 for Win98, setup aborts and says it cannot install because a more recent version is already installed. If I delete the folder where it sits, setup tells the same story. When I try to uninstall this corrupted thing either through control panel or update, setup tells it cannot do because there no uninstall data available. In an attempt to bypass IE, I installed Netscape but when it connects to my ISP, the browser displays an error message saying that "there are not enough system resource, cannot find a socket" or something like that. All the settings for modem, TCPIP, etc. are correct on both sides. I am left without Internet connection on my main machine, because it seems that messing with IE on the Win98 side has now corrupted back the copy on the W2K partition! How can I uninstall IE or is there a way to force installation over a more recent version? Has anybody already met cross-messing of applications between two OSes? PS: W2k and Win98 sits on two different drives (C: and E . Thanks for help! ------------------ 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 - USR 56K Faxmodem - Dual boot WIN2K RC3 "Free" and Win 98

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