Dragon-Lord

This precise event happened to me. My machine is able to do ACPI, but the settings for the bios changed recently, so when I installed W2K it did so as APM instead of ACPI (SMP). So, when I finally got the bios setting right, I did a W2K upgrade and every driver got reinstalled/reinitialized. Once ACPI was up and running, I have had no problem with Hibernate. My Win98se (dual boot system) ended up reconfiguring everything also, and it runs better as well. Hopefully, some of this was helpful. Grant:} PS Manually force the MS mouse/keyboard drivers if you have to. The Logitech ones that sometimes force their way into your system suck badly IMHO.

It is darn ugly, I will give you that. I also seem to have run into problems with image quality when scaling AVIs under some codes (Indeo). These same AVIs played and scaled flawlessly under the previous rev of media player. It also suffers the same "I have two windows, and they are both problems to work with" interface stupidity that caused me to move from Quicktime to Media Player in the first place. All I want to do is click once on an AVI, have the animation start up, then press the maximize button to go full screen. Is that too much to ask? It was of Quicktime, and now the new Media Player has the same problem. You can maximize the window just fine, but now the animation stays the same size. You have to go into the menus and manually select full screen/double, what have you...grrr... I also don't want rows of hype/marketing gadgets along all sides of the window... Aah...betas... :} PS Oh, and try and turn off the windows media auto-updater from running all the time in your task bar. You can't, without deleting the item from the registry.

This forum kicks ass...I found out my new DVD drive was running PIO when I checked the IDE settings. Now it is running UDMA like the rest of the system. Muchas gracias... :}

And coolbits are *what* exactly? :}

I had to put my SBLive (grrrr) into another PCI slot and then the on/off problem with the Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro went away. Between this and my weird "stalling out USB mouse" problem, I'd say that Win2K has problems managing resources under ACPI/SMP... :}

Light in a perfect vaccuum (i.e. not space).

The black screen may be from an unsupported monitor/refresh setting. I had this happen to me when I first migrated to W2K. If you are using a large (like 21") like I was, this may be your problem. To get it to work, I just hooked up my wife's 17", restarted, set the initial display settings, restarted to save everything, shutdown, switch monitors, whoilla! Latest drivers (beta) are the v5.13 version. I *HIGHLY* recommend them. They just plain kick butt... Hope this is your problem and it is easy to fix... :} PS I also found that the monitor was not autodetected because I was running through a Belkin Monitor/Mouse/Keyboard switchbox. I have since dumped the switcher.

I suspect the sound driver (SBLive **** release) is the culprit under SMP on my system, because I get the exact same result as you do. :}

The settings are available in the Display properties. You can find them under the Advanced/GeForce DDR/Additional Properties Tab. The window you will find here only shows a fewoptions, but if you scroll down, you will find what you need. I got a huge slowdown (obviously) when I kept the same res (1024x768), but when I dropped that to 640x480 (with FSAA on), I got a comparable frame rate and it looked FANTASTIC! This was in Q3A/OpenGL. :}

Oh, let me know if you get it to work with SMP. It used to work for me under the older drivers (albeit with crashes), but now I hang at agrey startup screen. Oh well...IMHO, these are the best drivers so far by a long shot... I noticed a huge texture management bonus under LightWave 3D v6 using OpenGL as well... :}

The settings are available in the Display properties. You can find them under the Advanced/GeForce DDR/Additional Properties Tab. The window you will find here only shows a fewoptions, but if you scroll down, you will find what you need. I got a huge slowdown (obviously) when I kept the same res (1024x768), but when I dropped that to 640x480 (with FSAA on), I got a comparable frame rate and it looked FANTASTIC! This was in Q3A/OpenGL. :}

I am not having this problem. The only thing that sounds different is that I installed the Intellipoint 3.1 update from MS. *perhaps* that *might* help? :}

Just run the setup.exe from W2k and you will have the option to upgrade. It really is a wonderful fix for mucho screwups. hehe You will have to reupdate IE, reset your startup/recovery options, and check your network config if you are running more than one Ethernet adapter (like I am). Otherwise, it asks if you want to use the newer drivers it finds during the install, so you can say yes, or point it in a new direction. But all your settings, drivers, software, profiles, etc. all remain as they were. Under w95/8/se, you can do the same thing, but it doesn't fix squat. The w2k upgrade option must doa lot of thinking and fixing under the hood...very nice. :}

I am only using two speakers, so the number is speakers is not relevant. Under win98se, I did up the number of voices to 32. It seems a very simple thing for them to have provided. My system is hardly unique in having this problem. I will check the registry and let you know what I find...muhaha :}

Could the "DMA problem that flushes the buffers" be responsible for my EAX problem? The drivers seem to work fine for typical uses, but when I put full acceleration on, and enable 3d sound (EAX) in Unreal Tournament or Half-Life (so this is not application dependant), I get huge distortions whenever more than a few simultaneous sounds are trying to play. For example, the very simple UT open plays almost perfectly (maybe a skip or loud pop), but as soon as the game begins proper, it sounds like an insane symphony. Also, it is clear to me that the EAX enabled sounds are playing way too loud. I am running an ACPI Supermicro P6DBS, Dual 450mhz P3, with 256mb of ram. This problem does not occur under Win98se, but has been a steady problem under W2k under all three sets of drivers (original w2k, leaked beta, MS certified release). :}

I just reinstalled the MM5 software and the error went away... :}

geforce ddr here on a dual P3 ACPI SMP...no problems whatsoever with graphics. SBLive is still garbled under EAX, but those drivers aren't cooked yet. :}

I got the same error, for keyboard, until I did an upgrade of w2k to w2k (forcing a reinstall). My first install had APM enabled, but I finally found the right BIOS settings on the supermicro site to enable ACPI under bios 2.2 (P6DBS). That forced upgrade forced a complete reworking of my system. It is now running fully ACPI and hibernate works (and rocks!). My system does not seem to want to recover from Standby mode (no mouse or keyboard stroke brings it back), but everything else is running flawlessly. So, I recommend checking BIOS, power config, then reinstall/upgrade and see how that works for you. :}

I am on a noble quest to remove all error events from my Event Viewer at boot-up...I only have one left! The Sentinel parallel dongle driver is installed for LightWave 3d, so I cannot remove it. :} I am using the latest drivers (which claim w2k compliance). The software, machine, and dongle all seem to work, but I cannot do anything to make this Event Viewer error go away. Anyone know how to make the Sentinel dongle run without errors? The description for Event ID ( 1 ) in Source ( Sentinel ) could not be found. It contains the following insertion string(s): 0000: 00 00 20 00 01 00 76 00 ......v. 0008: 00 00 00 00 01 00 07 40 .......@ 0010: db 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 Û....... 0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0028: 4e 54 53 49 4c 49 3a 44 NTSILI 0030: 72 69 76 65 72 45 6e 74 riverEnt 0038: 72 79 3a 6e 75 6d 4f 66 ry:numOf 0040: 44 65 76 69 63 65 73 00 Devices. Thanks in advance, :}

Download the v3.78 W2K drivers from Nvidia.com, install, reboot. :}

I tried the slider all the way on and EAX began working. However, sound mixing and sounds in general became very distorted, passing errors and beeps through the sound channel (like was mentioned above). No changes in UT (low sound, disable 3d sound) made any difference. The sound was munged badly if hardware acceleration was on 100%. My system is SMP. Is that the problem? Or is it just the beta nature of the drivers? :}

YuppieScum, You have the same mobo as I do, yet I cannot get the Dual UWSCSI chip to recognize under the OS (it only shows as Unknown PCI device). Is there a driver, or procedure I need to know about it? Or has my motherboard chip gone kaplooey? :}

Then, am I to assume that my scsi chip is fried? :{

YuppieS, You have the same mobo as I do, yet I cannot get the Dual UWSCSI chip to recognize under the OS. IS there a driver, or procedure I need to know about it? :}