FrogMaster

Both composite and S-VHS are analog! The difference is that the bandwidth of S-VHS is much larger than plain vanilla composite. That's why the quality of the signal - and of the resulting picture - is so superior. To enjoy S video, you must have S-compatible video equipment. Most recent medium to high-end TV sets have an S-video input. If you own such a set, go with S for sure. As far as the cable in concerned, it must be top notch quality beyond a few metres if you really want a super-super clean signal.

I had the same problem. Reversing back to native W2K drivers fixed it.

I'm still with RC3 "without timebomb", which works fine BTW. But I'll buy a final copy next month when I'm sure to make a deal. I do not want to pay the full price which is too high here. I know at least two retailers who will accept to make a big rebate when I buy a new 20 or 30 gigs HD. I am ready to pay 50 to 60 percent of what MS wants. This not piracy, this is good business

Hi! Just a test. When I type the URL in my browser, I go to a blank page with a message saying: "No web site is configured at this address" When I type in the IP address, I go straight to your site. Where are you located? In the US or in Malaysia??

I got bored too... So I installed it and enjoy it

I have both TNT2 and TNT2 Ultra boards (Guillemot) in different machines. I have tested them quite a lot so I have an idea of what they are worth. The difference is that they select the best chips to sell them as "Ultra". Memory chips are also faster on Ultra boards. That means you will not overclock an TNT2 to Ultra speed (unless you are very lucky). Again, if you are lucky, you will be able to overclock an Ultra board quite a bit. So my recommendation would be to go with an Ultra with 32 Mb memory (forget crappy 16 Mb)from any manufacturer. If you can afford the extra bucks, you better go with a GEForce, of course preferably a DDR one. There is really a difference if you want to play 1024x768 and above in 32 bit color

I have a thought... This QQ bios is still beta, is not it? Maybe official release will have 1.24 bios built-in. Then we may have better support with the new bios and the new driver

As I said: Abit brand new HotRod 100 controller=HPT370 + bios 1.24 ... eh eh... It seems this new driver is not for us owners of BP6 mobos ???

About this HPT370 inf file, I suspect there is a new controller in the pipe...

Just install with ACPI if your mobo supports it. Search for ACPI on this forum and you have all the answers

I wonder if there is a switch to launch the Win98 setup that bypass the scandisk step. It seems to me there is one. I have not installed Win98 for a while now, but I remember something about that. Not sure. Maybe you would give a try to SETUP/? to see if there is such an option???

Quantus, They are Microsoft, resistance is futile. Sooner or later you will be an W2K addict.

I have 192 Mb of ram. It must be the right compromise to get full benefit from hibernation. Anyway, coming back from hibernation is much faster than a fresh reboot: no start menu, no network connections to look for, no personnal settings to apply, no logon dialogue, no process to look for and launch, no hardware polling, favourite apps already open, etc, etc. When you fresh reboot you have anyway to fill the memory with all that stuff. So hibernation is definitely worth to be given a try.

Hi all drive experts! Here is the prob: W2k sits on the first partition of my drive C:\ which is a seagate UDMA 33 6 gigs divided into 4x1.5 gig partitions. This drive is hooked to ide 0, channel 1. I have a second Seagate 4 gigs UDMA 33 drive divided into 2x2 gigs partitions. This second HD is hooked to ide 0, channel 2. A third drive, an IBM UDMA 66 20 gigs is hooked to first channel of HPT66. Win 98 and pagefiles for both oses sit on this one with most "serious" apps. Games are happy on the smaller 1.5 and 2 gigs partitions. The strange thing is that if DMA is enabled for the first C: drive, it gets sloooooow. I mean really slooooooow like a floppy! UDMA 33 and 66 are enabled for the two other drives. When I reinstall/repair W2k - I have to, I tweak a lot - the process starts quite fast then comes to a crawl after the first part of install, I suspect when the OS enables UDMA 33 by default on drive C:. I have to disable UDMA for this drive to get it to be workable. There is obviously a problem with this one or what??? Bios setting for both ide drives is Auto. If I set pio, W2k laughs and installs with UDMA enabled anyway. Win98 has no problem whatsoever. All drives are Fat 32. Has anyone a clue to get UDMA to work on this drive? Thanks for help! ------------------ Abit BP6 - QQb1 bios - 2*Celery@583 MHz - 192 MB Pc100 Ram - IDE1 Seagate 6 GB - IDE2 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" (on IDE1) Win 98 (on HPT66) [This message has been edited by FrogMaster (edited 14 March 2000).] [This message has been edited by FrogMaster (edited 14 March 2000).]

You are right Nova. Going back to one's desktop exactly in the state where it was before leaving is the great thing. BTW I retain the idea to visit the toilet when I have to reboot the regular way! Could mean another beer!

Reloading from hibernation takes only a few seconds on my box. Booting the usual way takes at least one minute. I personally hate this minute. The same for logging off and shut-down.

I did not notice any speed increase when I re-installed W2K with the latest bios for Abit BP6 (MPS 1.4 works without losing USB). But plug and play seems more silent and fast. Moreover, when you have hibernation and soft power-down enabled, you would not want to go back to non-ACPI. The only strange thing is the interrupt numbers in device manager, with fancy ones like 64 or whatever! No conflict whatsoever and rock-solid operation. Also I did not notice any additional overhead in task manager.

Good idea this poll! Hardware: Logitech cordless desktop PS2. Occasionally stuck in Q3A and Tombraider 3 & 4. Half-life, Unreal, UT and others no problem as far as I remember. When I am stuck, there is no way to escape except the hard way. Keyboard and mouse no longer respond and I keep on running into a wall or whatever I am doing until I get fragged or toasted in lava. Had same problem with recent standard keyboard and plain vanilla serial mouse. BUT : WHEN I USE AN OLD CHERRY AT KEYBOARD (12-year old), NO STICKING! Is there a prob with keyboard bios/clock?

Did anybody tried the new W9x 5.08 drivers? I installed them yesterday night on my dual boot box. Yes I know this post is a little off-topic, but maybe not so as I constantly compare performance between W2k and W98 and progress made by the new OS. These drivers are simply incredible in opengl! (Did not try in d3d yet). Not only in Q3A (S3TC) but also in a few 3d apps I gave a first try (Unreal, FogCity bench ...). I mean double digit improvement! I think this gives us an idea of what we shall have in the very near future in W2K. Imagine such drivers with SMP enabled... Whoops! ------------------ Abit BP6 - QQb1 bios - 2*Celery@583 MHz - 192 MB Pc100 Ram - IDE1 Seagate 4 GB - IDE2 Seagate 6 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" (on IDE1) Win 98 (on HPT66)

There is also this WINFX desktop tweaking software at www.stardock.com

Same story here. My 19" Liyama would not install with built-in driver. It installs OK with the NT .inf file on the floppy that comes with the monitor. I uninstall the standard monitor that W2K seems to love, then blah-blah ... have disk ... blah ... done. By the way, I use a RGB BNC cable to feed the video (much better at hi-res than standard VGA crap). Because of that I suspect the monitor type is not read by the OS. Hope this helps.

Has anybody ever heard about software able to destroy under certain conditions a hardware piece, or mess up a component on the motherboard? (see my // port story above) Until now I thought that the only "software-destroyable" component was CRT display because of feeding it with out of specs refresh rates. I remember having killed a vga monitor a few years ago with the help of a super-vga video card driver. ------------------ Abit BP6 - QQb1 bios - 2*Celery@583 MHz - 192 MB Pc100 Ram - IDE1 Seagate 4 GB - IDE2 Seagate 6 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" (on IDE1) Win 98 (on HPT66)

I got those drivers at reactorcritical but did not try them yet. These ones are for Win98, not for Win2k.

I know what you have suffered. I also spent a full week-end and almost two nights fighting with an installation. An update of aspi driver for the CD-burner completely messed my setup. I went through one full reinstall, one repair, one format and one reinstall just to discover that - you will not believe it - my parallel port was dead. Yes, dead, I mean no more access, simply disappeared from the system, both under W2K and Win98! Seen by the bios at boot-up but dead. I put my box apart and on the following Monday I went to the retailer to swap the mother board for a new one. New assembly of the whole stuff, reinstall from scratch during a fair part of the night. Everything OK. Noooooo! I installed latest Iomega software for the Zip drive. Again my system was screwed! New format, aargh, new install, cross fingers... the box has been running now for one month rock-solid and I almost never run Win 98. Thanks guys. It makes me feel better to have added my chapter to the W2k horror story! ------------------ Abit BP6 - QQb1 bios - 2*Celery@583 MHz - 192 MB Pc100 Ram - IDE1 Seagate 4 GB - IDE2 Seagate 6 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" (on IDE1) Win 98 (on HPT66)

Hi everybody! I just wondered if it is mandatory to re-install Quake3A over an Win98 installation to get smooth operation under Win2k (I have intermittent lockups in SMP mode when switching resolutions or changing texture settings from within the game menu). I only created a shortcut on my Win2K desktop pointing to the exe installed previously under Win98. Does Q3A need stuff written at installation time in the registry to work properly? ------------------ Abit BP6 - QQb1 bios - 2*Celery@583 MHz - 192 MB Pc100 Ram - IDE1 Seagate 4 GB - IDE2 Seagate 6 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" (on IDE1) Win 98 (on HPT66)