Dragon-Lord

1. OPen your network connection settings for that connection. There is a checkbox that causes the icon to be displayed in the systray. Uncheck it. :}

Make sure the bios is looking to the floppy drive first. Your system is probably looking to the hard drive, trying to boot, missing the floppy sys files entirely. Hope that helps, :}

I turned off automatic checking and run at windows startup and my boot times now smoke. The "checking email" icon still flashes in the toolbar, as does, "requesting virus scan" in excel and word when opening a document, so it looks to me that what I really need to be running is still doing so in the background. Besides the fast boot up, a ton of system crashes ended and perfproc/winmgmt adap errors started disappearing from my event log, so it looks good so far! I could never complete a tape backup when running NAV for example. Now, no problems. any heads up on whether I am actually still virus protected? :}

I switched to NAV 2000 because it actually boots up *minutes* faster than InnoculateIT PE. Defragmenting the drive does help in boot times, as does booting from your fastest hard drive, and running NTFS as your file system. Hope that provides at least some moral support for your cigar smoking. I suspect we will not care as much once the drivers and OS become 100% stable and we are rarely (oh please god) rebooting our machines. :}

There is a setting when you are playing an animation. View/Zoom/Fit to Window. This will allow your animation to scale with whatever your window size is. It got me (and a thousand other people as well). MS should make this on by default, not off. The setting is kept afterwards, so you only need to set it once and forget it. :}

www.tweak3d.com/faq has the settings you need to fix your dark display. :}

search the message board and you will find bios and update information to fix this problem. While I do not have your motherboard, I believe that I have read that this IRQ9 issue is one of the known causes of lockups on your system. Seriously, though, the lockups and reboots seem to be a problem with all of the W2K systems I see people complaining about. The majority seem to be Geforce/TNT etc. users, but the only thing I can see in common between all of the systems discussed herein is the presence of ACPI... The problem seems to be more pronounced with video drivers that significantly hit AGP 2x+. Worse yet, I have installed SP1 for W2K and the problem has not gone away. ONly going to very old video drivers (CLv3.79) have I reduced, but not eliminated, these spontaneous crashes. :}

Installation Instructions: Don't. :} Seriously, all of the 5.xx series drivers cause numerous system-level problems under W2K. I cannot for the life of me understand why NVidia chose to release the rev 5.22 ones as official reference drivers. Now, thousands of people who shied away from the leaked betas are going to try these and be very, very unhappy. Be careful. Good luck. God bless.

check http://www.nikontech-usa.com/win2000/index.htm for the new driver files. :}

Xircon bought out Entrega, so if you have products from either company, head to www.xircon.com. Oddly, I could not successfully download the files from the web page (links not working yet), but ftp.xircon.com/pub/ has everything you'd need. My Entrega multifunction USB hub now supports USB serial ports! :}

This is for NT4. Does this work under W2k? :}

I think that's your Umax parallel port scanner (astra 1220p). There are still no working drivers for Win2k for said device, so this is the way it comes up in Win2k. :}

Okay, new question on this topic. I am very close to dumping W98se off of my dual boot system (W2k is running almost perfectly). the C drive is w98 and Fat 32, while the D drive is W2k and NTFS. My boot.ini files, et al, are on C. If I convert the C drive to NTFS, I assume that W98 just suddenly won't be able to boot. I can then manually edit out the w98 entry in the boot.ini file, delete the windows directory, etc. Is there a problem with this scenario? It seems too easy, hehe. I guess I am most concerned about boot sectors, since my machine looks to the C drive first upon boot up. :}

I beg to disagree. None of these games use more than 20kbytes/s at maximum bandwidth. I have run three Q3A machines through the same cable modem and noticed negligible ping increases (10-15), which I attribute to ICS overhead, not network or cable modem issues. My cable modem (mediaone LA) maintains consistent transfers of 150-200kbytes/s so this does not seem unreasonable. My network is 100base through hubs, dual NICs on the ICS machine. So, I'd say try the ICS solution and see if you notice a problem. If it doesn't, all it takes to disable under W2k is a clearing of one checkbox... :}

Please use a smiley face when posting satirically. Otherwise, we might think you were being serious... :}

it also takes 5 minutes to initialize (i.e. grind the drives) during bootup...free always comes with a price. I am using NAV2000 and most happy. :}

Just checked on www.supermicro.com and saw that they just released v3.0 bios versions for most of their motherboards (and upgrade for my dual P6DBS from v2.2). Since the last rev was in September 1999, I am hoping (fingers crossed) that these are bios upgrades with Win2K in mind. I have flashed mine and all is well, so far. It is too soon to tell yet whether my AGP Geforce DDR freeze problem is gone. Since I saw that a lot of other mobos were getting AGP related bios and driver upgrades, I can only hope. Nowhere on their site (that I can find) do they list what is addressed in these upgrades. Hell, they hardly mention Win2K at all. Anyone know a good source of end-user information other than their site? :}

please search the message board with your motherboard name as a keyword. that should provide you with a hundred threads on this board with a discussion of this issue. :}

I have been running mine on ACPI/MPS 1.4 using the r2.2 bios (SMP as well), so has that been part of my crashing problem? Should I try v1.1? What is the difference? I have hibernate and standby available and working, but what is suspend? Is this mobo supposed to support that? Nothing on the site about recommended bios settings for Win2k, known problems, etc. Very weak and frustrating. call their tech suport number and it says "send an email" since they won't pass you to a live technician...period. I can tally how much time I have lost reinstalling, removing, upgrading, etc. so many drivers and revs only to come to the realization that the mobo (bios?) is my primary problem. Since the onboard scsi chip blew some time ago, I have just been waiting to replace this. I too will be looking at Abit and Asus next time around. I have had only one random crash since I updated the bios yesterday. For me, that is a record. :} :}

yes, I still don't believe that there can be any connection. Programs don't access VM, only the system does. Perhaps there can be issues with using a page file on the same drive as a drive-intensive game, but that would be a different issue. :}

I bought the SB 16 just to tide me over until the SB Live drivers are up to snuff. I am sorry, my friend, but the drivers you need exist only somewhere and sometime in the future... :{

Excuse me? Could you be a bit more specific? I find it hard to believe that any program could have problems with the location of the page file, since the OS handles memory allocation (virtual versus real), not the program itself... What's the scoop? :}

I tried DynDNS.org and the BaliDNS software (for auto IP address up[censored]). Worked perfectly first time. Wonderful! I set up a private tunnel and will test it next week. I'll let you know how it works. Could not have been easier. W2K (and this board) rocks... :}

First, CL is full of ****...their W2K drivers suck and that is the first and foremost problem. Second, the multi-IRQ 9 problem is well documented on this board. Do a messageboard search based on your mobo name and it should come up with an answer. I believe you need a BIOS upgrade. I hope that helps. :}

I hold out hope that the nv5.16 drivers PLUS a final set of CL SBLive! drivers will end my problems. This...this may be an irrational hope, but we all need to cling to something. :} :} PS The live is a great card, so I kept it, but just replaced mine with a standard SB16 (cheap and reliable) for the interim.