FrogMaster

Oh yeah, and mine is longer and thicker and faster. Childish intel/amd religion war. Reminds me of the Apple/Ibm war. You are too dumb to understand that it is only a question of having fun, just the pleasure to get the max from the hardware you have at hand at a given time. Ridiculous.

1985: Amstrad CPC64 Z80 @ 4 MHz 64 K ram Tape drive 4-channel sound OS: Locomotive Basic 1986: Amstrad CPC128 same as above plus: 128 K ram 3 inches floppies OSes: CPM 3.3 or Locomotive Basic Alot of apps, even a C-basic compiler! I already had a mouse and an external 5"1/4 floppy drive hooked to the box. It was a fantastic machine for the time, with alot of add-ons available (serial interface, joysticks, modems, etc.) It was faster than an IBM Pc!

Yeah! Supermicro 370SWD: - sound AC97 - integrated video - udma66 - 3 pci, 1 amr - 2 dimms - micro ATX - around US$ 120 in Europe. Should be mucho cheapo in the US.

Arrgh... double post. Sorry [This message has been edited by FrogMaster (edited 16 October 2000).]

Just to let you know guys how this little puppy does well. It now runs rock stable at 935 MHZ (110x8.5) at 1.75 core voltage It does post at 1020 MHz (120x8.5) but stops when trying to load the os. I'll try with a pc133 sdram stick. I have only no-name pc100 at the moment and get a blue screen with 'memory error' when getting into W2K at 1020 MHz. I swapped the CUV4X for a P3V4X as it is definitely easier to do soldering tweaks on a slotket than on a mobo. Who said W2K does not like overclockin' ?

It seems to me that Asus have a mobo with everything on board, could be the CUV4X-M. Not sure but worth checking. It is the younger brother (or sister ?) of P3V4X (slot 1) and CUV4X (FC-PGA). Very good VIA 133 Pro boards. I am currently running two of them.

Mein Got! I just discovered there is the same topic on the Applications thread!

OK Emilee1 - First, please take a breath and stop changing your config all the time or it will be impossible to sort it out... Now, remove this @#&$§£#! scsi controller, you will reinstall it later. Put your big drive on first ide port one as master. Its primary partition will come up as C: Put your 4 gigs drive on the same ide port as slave. It will come up as D: Put your cd-rom drive on ide port two as master. It will come up as E: Go to your mobo's bios and set it to boot off the cd. If ok, then run setup from the cd. The intall prog will at some stage ask you to choose a partition to put W2K on. Then confirm D: is the location where you want to install. Continue until W2K is installed. You should be done If you cannot boot off the cd, then boot off C: or off a diskette. Do not forget to put the drivers for the cd in your config.sys and autoexec.bat files. The standard win98 bootdisk is ready with everything necessary on it, including the drivers for the cd. Good luck. PS: your adsl modem, external or internal? If external, it's very easy to have it up and running with W2K.

In a way I agree with your not agreeing Of course, you can install W2K on any drive. What I mean is that I would never install it on any logical drive for safety and speed reasons. I definitely want to have it on a primary and bootable partition. Doing so you will always have a possibility to recover in case of big messing. In the present situation, this is what I would do: - first uninstall/delete WinMe from C: - second, install W2K on a freshly fat32-formatted C: partition, preferably booted from a plain Win98 dos diskette with only io.sys, msdos.sys, fdisk and command.com on it after having copied the whole i386 folder from the cd somewhere else on a logical drive, for example E: I then would launch the install from the command line E:\i386\winnt It is the best way to have a safe and very fast installation. Later on, when W2K need a file for loading a driver or whatever, it will find it at once, without requesting the cd. Very handy, indeed... - third, install WinMe if you really need this blue-screen generator wherever you wish (at your own risks eh eh...) I always install W2K as above on dual-boot configs. Never had a problem. Super clean installation. Easy to repair in case it crashes. Super fast reinstalls directly from hard disk.

Sorry, but it is the only solution. You cannot install W2K on a logical drive. Also, I'm not sure WinMe will install on a logical drive (I do not use this would-be os and do not want to know about it). My advice would definitely be to install Win2K on C: drive and not bother with win me which is obsolescent anyway. Win2K is light years ahead of WinMe. You will enjoy it and get a much better service and stability, top-notch networking, rock-solid administration.

Another important point (solution 2): Before attempting to install, delete from within WinMe all temporary directories that the W2K installer may have created during the previous aborted installs. Also, edit your boot.ini file in C: root and remove the line which refers to W2K Professionnal Setup. This file is hidden, so change properties/attribute to edit it, then change back to hidden when you are done. Just keeping on thinking

OK. The two oses are messing together. You MUST install W2K on a primary partition, ie in the root of the first partition of a physical drive. This drive maybe anyone on your system, provided it is a physical drive. You have two solutions: - first solution : install on same partition as WinMe, that is to say root of C:. This is very bad as you have a risk that the two oses mess themselves together at some stage when they will want to do stuff in common pathes/directories. Nobody would want to do that. - second solution : put another hard disk in your system. It should show up as D:. W2K will be very happy to install itself on that one and run from there. You should be done. Welcome to the club and enjoy! Just thinking

Yeah I really loved that Duke game Just hope we shall not wait for ever for the sequel. Come on developpers. I swear I'll buy at least two copies to run on my homelan. Well ... at least one copy for sure PS: please do not p*$$ us off with censorship!

It is the same for example with the Abit Bp6. HiPoint ide 66 is reported as scsi by the bios and by the os even if it is managed as an ide device. One of my machines boots off scsi in the bios and lets the ata 66 bios/chip combo go first. I'm almost sure now that an add-on controller would behave the same way (after disabling the on-board real or fake scsi controller probably, if any on-board).

If there is a bios option allowing booting from 'scsi' or 'other', the mobo bios should let the bios of the other device boot and take the lead. I would be happy to have an answer to this question because I am also considering adding such an additional controller in my box to throw more disks in (Asus CUV4X mobo). I would consider an Ultra 66 controller thu. Just a thought.

A few questions: - is your W2K cd an upgrade only or a full install cd? - does W2K setup see your F drive? If yes, are you sure it really reports the very drive you want to install on and not another partition? - is this F drive a primary partition or a logical drive? - from where do you lauch W2K setup? from dos on C drive? from Me ? from a dos boot disk ? Just wondering

Try to beat this one: 1975 - barebone pcb - Motorola 6809 8-bit 2 MHz processor - 2 KO memory - hexadecimal keypad - 4 7-segment led displays - a few relays to control external stuff - one serial interface - sheet of paper as mass storage medium - asm or some symbolic instructions language I do not remember You will understand why Whistler does not impress me so much

Do you install W2K on the same partition where WinMe is already sitting? If so, W2K setup could well mess with common directories with the same names under both OSes and find stuff it does not like being there. Just a thought...

You can change drive letters in manage computer/disk management or someting like that if I remember well. I'm at work now on an NT4 machine

Me again. You will find an illustration of what you want to do there: http://www.helmig.com/j_helmig/vpn.htm This does not tell how to do it precisely but confirms PPTP/VPN could be a workable solution to your prob

PPTP/VPN should do the trick.

12 years ago: 80386! 15 years ago : 80286! The original IBM PC AT was released in 1985 as far I remember. It was powered by a 8 MHz 80286 that I overclocked to 12 MHz (change of quartz)!!! Memory: 2 megs of 80 ns dil chips, of which 1 meg of paged extended memory. HD: 40Mo. Video: Hercules monochrome 720x348 if I remember. OS: MsDos 4, then 5 with dosshell. Pcshell/Pctools was a must at that time. Favorite programming language was TurboPascal. I wrote my first fractal generator in 1985. Incredibly fast with a separate 80287 math coprocessor : a whole day to draw a Mandelbrot set with 256 iterations! Good olde time

You know what? This thread is the coolest I've ever seen.

Yeah let's close this topic! We have a record to break with jdul's thread. This guy comes from another board where they want to get the world record. Do not allow the competition disturb us from our objective : the longest post in history. I'm gonna push up the other thread

Yeah! This post is our playground, duck pond, schoolyard... We shall not allow any smart a$$ to pollute it with off-the-topic-bullsh*t. Nonsense is welcome here. Useless crap is banned