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Thanks for answering but I know exactly what I want to do in the registry: manually integrate the Promise Fastrack (yes, declared as scsi mass storage) raid controller driver where it should be, as PnpEnum, pci device number, manufacturer's string id, etc. so that the OS takes it when booting, which is not the case at the moment (error message points at the OS not seeing the boot disk). Microsoft's knowledge base has an answer about the error and gives good hints for solving the problem from within W2K. What I am basically looking for is an utility or a trick which would allow me to open, edit and save the W2K config files from outside W2K. I could easily solve the problem by un-ghosting the original saved partition, to a drive on the regular #0 ide channel 1, launch W2K, install the drivers, re-ghost the partition, un-ghost again to the raid array. But I want to do it the dirty way for the fun of it, ie rip open the registry from outside W2K and put my hands in it This would be very useful in many situations to restore a screwed install or to make changes or some tidying. The sig tells about the original config (before adding a pair of 40 Gigs HDs on the raid controller) but this will not help.

For basic protection at home, Sygate Personal Firewall is not bad at all ; and it's free. It has got a nice control/dashboard. Can be upgraded to pro version.

Could be that the boards do not do SLI (do not initialize properly). Even identical voodoo 2s (same manufacturer) may have this problem because of dispersion of specs. This used to be a well known issue in the good old voodoo times You need specially hacked glide drivers that will take any pair of v2s to SLI mode.

Have a look at FirstPage 2000. You can edit anything with it. Great and powerful editor. It's free. http://www.evrsoft.com/

Hey, a quarter of a century Mid-seventies: - Various Motorola breadboards with 6809 as far as I remember. Dual led display and Hex keyboard with one serial interface and some relays to talk to the outside world. Very early eighties: - Apple 3 with two single-sided floppies and 5 megabytes HD (a great computer with a very good OS, brilliant Pascal USCD, and lot of expansion slots) Early eighties: - IBM PC 8088 clone with floppy, 640 k memory and 10 megs hd (real pos) Mid-eighties: -Amstrad CPC 64, CPC 128 (very good Basic and CPM implementation)then 8086 pc clone (my first 20 megs hd, it was a huuuuge disk at that time) Then upgrade every year or twice a year, all versions of DOS, Windows 286, Windows 3.1, 95, 98, NT4, 2000... all processors 8086, 286, 386, 486, a bunch of cyrix and amd 486s and 586s, various flavors of PIIs and Celerons, PIII, Athlon XP... Time runs fast 8)

It works here with a Voodoo 5 5500 pci as secondary display (pls see sig). I can play D3D or opengl games on first display and still keep something on the other display. It works the other way for glide (UT). Not all detonator drivers are stable though. 27.50 seems to be the best on my setup. 28 and up are less stable and I sometimes get lock-ups when dragging a window from one screen to the other. What is weird is that some apps can be moved and other do not like at all. Generally the offending apps are small single window utilities (network monitoring, asus probe...). Big regular apps can be moved without problem (Photoshop, Sequencer...). Me too cannot move the mouse to the other display when a game has taken ownership of it. I do not know about Rush though. In any case, when you have got used to dual-display, you would not want to go back It is great to edit a UT level on one screen and get into the game on the other one.

Sorry, I was not aware it did not work under XP

I have a voodoo 5 5500 pci as secondary video display (see sig). Works great but I only use it for desktop extension and glide (UT) and Quake 2 opengl (yes, I still play it, much better than Q3 IMHO), for which there is no competition, especially picture quality. I use omega drivers which are very stable and fast, with 3dfx tools fully operational, lots of tweaks. Geforce 3 and voodoo seems to cohabit happily

Almost all in subject. A lot of new mini-boxes have been shown at the last CeBit. I am considering taking one to recycle a PIII 1Gig and some ram sticks which are laying around and build an all-purpose box: router-firewall-lan party-take away on vacations-backup box-mobile dvd player-whatever... It seems that some of these new boxes would have enough room to plug in a voodoo 5 5500 pci for better than on-board video. Power could be an issue thu. Would need an lcd display too. It seems the complete set up could be much cheaper and maybe more reliable (always on) than a high-end laptop for equivalent performance. Video and display performance are my main concerns. Any idea?

Valery, please clarify the situation: is your nt4 computer a laptop you want to bring in and network at home (case 1) or a desktop (fixed) that you want to access from home (case 2)? - case one the easiest way is to install a new copy of some os (NT4, W2K, XP) on another partition on the laptop and hook it up to your home lan. Thanks to dual-booting, you will have access to everything on the laptop frome your home lan. DO NOT change anything to the original network setup on the laptop or you will be no longer able to connect at work and your admin may well start asking you some embarassing questions... - case two most companies have strict security policies and will consider this is an attempt to crack their network from outside. Bad time... If case one applies, then I would advise to talk to your admin so that he is aware of what you want to do. If he is a nice guy, he should help you. If he is not, beware.

I agree; UT is the ultimate stability test. This rig will run 3dmarks without crashing at 160 MHz fsb but UT will crash after a couple of minutes; it would run fine at 155. For me, the ultimate-ultimate test is: - open two instances of unreal editor - load two of the largest maps you've got, one on each instance - select all in one window of an instance and copy - paste the first map into the other instance and move it so as to intersect somewhere to get a single huge level - you should have crashed everything at this stage - if not, build the new map with all options checked - you should crash there - if not, when it is built, test play the map from within the editor - it should crash there - if it plays fine, you have got a pretty stable rig - you won't stop there and will launch prime95 or something similar - if you can still test play the level, you've got a decent stable system

Good anniversary, Clutch I think I also registered in March 2000 to the best forum out there. Were all testing and discussing NT5 at that time and complaining and whining about compatibility issues, lack of support from manufacturers... W2K is so mature now. I have a special thank to Clutch who has helped me on two occasions that were important for my job. He gave me the clues to make the difference. Clutch you are der Man! Take care

Some comments: - as Dirty Harry pointed out, nautical mile makes sense as it relates directly to angle measurements which is the basis for any navigation activity (boat, plane, rally, etc). It corresponds to the minute of arc since Galilee, Copernic and many others decided the earth is a sphere: 1852 metres x 60 x 360 = 40,000,000 metres which is the circumference of our planet at the equator. The metre was originally defined at the end of the 18th century as being the millionth part of a quarter of the earth's meridian: 1 metre x 10^6 x 4 = 40,000,000 metres One can say that both the nautical mile and the metre are based on the same rationales. This is universally accepted. - wheel on the left side ... well, most people are right-handed, so if it is your case, how could you take care efficiently of the Lady in the passenger's seat whith your left hand? - we too pay the state TV an annual tax of around 100 euros whether we watch or not. This really p*sses me off when there are tens free channels available and hundreds cheap pay-tv channels to freely choose from - I can recommend two on-line retailers here, they offer good service and stocks are updated real-time: www.eurisko.fr www.grosbill.com GrosBill has very good prices. Eurisko is more high-end oriented. I am not sure whether they ship out of the country though...

Yep, it will read fat32

I connect:- - another full-fledged computer (file and printer server) - My road warrior's Dell laptop - My other half's Toshiba laptop - My ole pal's computer through VNC - Palm V - Alcatel cell phone - LMD80 midi switch - Casio CTK 700 synth - H&K 2x100 watts midi-controlled guitar amplifier - Yamaha QY700 sequencer/XG expander - Yamaha GW50 effect processor - Zoom GFX8 effect processor - Yamaha TZX81 expander - Yamaha EMT10 expander - Roland GI10 midi guitar interface - Simmons 8-channel preamplifier/mixer - Radix 7300S satellite receiver To come: Yamaha SPX90 effect processor. ... and some other trivial stuff (adsl, webcam, photo camera...) Real fun

ASUS, definitely. I have had or still have ABITs, MSIs and FIC You cannot compare the quality. I have had Asus boards since the good old socket 7 T2P4. My first true o'clocker's mobo. FSB at 83 MHz with a K6 something The heavily-loaded rig below is rock-stable, he he :p

Sure, I understand it is W2K clean-install and that it is NT. The point is that these files does not seem to me to be NT specific at all. *.VXDs are legacy virtual device drivers. W2K uses *.sys device drivers. Am I right? Would it be that the repair needs DOS 7 drivers to do/start some of the stuff outside of NT on a badly screwed W2K install (read-write to disk, memory management...)? If it is the case, then those files should be somewhere on the W2K cd install disk. Was the HD freshly partitioned and formatted before the clean install? Very interesting prob anyway

Are not these files legacy file system and memory management drivers from Win98? I am almost sure for IFSHLP.sys and VMM32.vxd (VXDs are typical Win98 device drivers). Win98 definitely needs them to boot. These files may be needed for some legacy dos/win operations to start repairing the W2K install. You may want to grab the files from a Win98 cd or an existing install, put them on your repair disk and see what happens. Maybe they are also somewhere on the W2K cd. Just a thought

Me too... I was getting crazy with 60mm delta I have put an Alpha 8045 with 80mm slow rpm fan on top of the xp 1700+ o'clocked to 1650 MHz and changed the psu for a triple-temp-controlled-fan one (big a$$ 470 watts psu ) I can hear me thinking now

Just to let you know if you want to play with RC SP3. I tried it some time ago. - It screwed DNS so that it was no longer possible to browse, even if the internet connection was still working, no website was accessible. - Other problem was with Photoshop where the font menu was corrupted. - Did not tried any longer and ghosted back - Thanks Mr Symantec

Well, I just moved to AMD (15-year Intel addict)! Because of a bargain: around 250 euros/dollars for an ASUS A7V133 and Athlon XP 1700+. I wanted to reuse my sdram memory sticks. I must say it is a huge step from my previous PIII 1GHz. Cannot compare performance. Installed new hardware (previously a CUV4X), W2K hangs, do a repair install and voila No stability problem after 48 hours. Everything is flying. Only thing: UT needs twice the disk space now. Had to change swapfile size from 512 to 1024 megs to stop it hanging. Weird, why only UT?

It does not really suxx when using it as a back door to nt5 Most other usages (running apps) suxxx. The same I use win2k as a backdoor to nt4 Ask my admins (large corp). I can fuxxx any of their nt4 setups whatever they do. I can do anything I want

Downloaded and installed No prob so far ...

Yeah, Let's find the best background blue. Original windows, maybe, but slightly deeper. Maybe removing a little bit of green. We could have that deep Mediterranean incredible colour. Greek islands style if you see what I mean

Quote: He had a saying about speech & written english as well: "The baud rates' TOO slow!" (LOL, and I agree with him...) The baud rates' TOO slow! LOL I do agree BTW, Carl Sagan, what a brain! Technology has to provide the Humans with some kind of high-speed inter-personal communications channel. Imagine megabytes of info exchanged in a split second