kgeissler

I have both a Sidewinder Gamepad and the Sidewinder FF Wheel. When I try and install the gamepad, I do the Sidewinder autodetect, and it comes back as a Sidewinder 3D Pro. When I try and install the FF Wheel, it will install ok, but the status keeps changing from OK to NOT CONNECTED. I have tried to reinstall the Gameport drivers, but that didn't work. The gameport is on a SB Live Value. Both devices worked under Win2k before. The only thing I did was upgrade the MB and CPU. Any ideas?

Reinstalled the Game Compatibility updates and move the SB Live to another slot and still the same thing. This is weird. It worked fine before, so I know they work in windows 2000. Any other ideas?

I still find that also running IPX/SPX along with TCP/IP makes sharing files in my local network alot easier.

You could also try installing IPX/SPX on both boxes and see if that works.

What size power supply do you have?

Make sure if you have an Athlon you have a good power supply. I got an Athlon 800 and my 235W power supply couldn't handle it. Had lockups, wouldn't boot and etc. Got a 300W power supply and all works great.

Your system is similar to mine. I also have the KA7. When I installed my Annihilator 2, it work give me a blue screen on boot. Turned out to be a faulty memory chip. Have you tried to disable the 4x AGP support in the BIOS and see if that works?

I just bought an Annihilator 2. But my FPS in Q3 are really low. At 640x480 with the fastest setting I am only getting 75FPS. According to all the reviews, I should be getting mid to high 90's. I have an Athlon 800, Abit KA7, 128MB. I have download all the new drivers from Nvidia, VIA and Abit. Any ideas? TIA

I got it working. I forgot to load the VIA 4x AGP support drivers. DUH. Now I am getting 98FPS. Yippee!!

I'll trade my game port version for your USB version.

I have had this problem since the day I installed Windows 2000, back in February. I have not found a fix for it yet. I am also going through a SB Live card. The only workaround I have found is to map a button to the brake. But that takes the fun out of the wheel.

I think the computers that are not directly connect to the net, get a bogus IP just so they can see the web to do mail and such. I don't think Quake can translate the bogus IP to recieve the packets back.

Are you overclocking your processor? When I overclocked mine, Windows 2000 would do the same thing you are describing.

The easiest way is to set up user policies. Are your users logging into a domain?

Does anyone know of a way to convert a FAT partition to a FAT32 partition in Windows 2000? Or is there a 3rd party program that can do this?

Make sure in your BIOS you set the 3.5 Floppy to NONE. And wherever you LS-120 is on your IDE chain to auto.

I have a Abit KA7 MB with a Athlon 800. When I go into the Softmenu to try and overclock it to 840Mhz 105 x 8, it will start to load Windows 2000, then reboot. Is there a trick to overclocking? What do I need to do. BTW, the memory is just a generic 128MB and a generic 64MB PC100 memory, for a total of 196

I was running W2k on my old PII-400 with my mouse working fine, wheel and all. Now when I went to my Athlon 800, I formated and reinstalled Windows 2000. The mouse works, but the wheel doesn't. I checked the mouse properties and have it set to "Assume Wheel is Present". Any Ideas? TIA

I got it working. I unplugged the mouse and plugged it back in. I don't get it. If the connection was loose, why did the mouse work? Go figure.

It is just a plain MS Mouse. I went to MS website to download the Intellimouse drivers, but it said you needed v1.1 installed for them to work. I don't have any Intellimouse drivers. Does anyone know here I can get them?

I just bought my Abit KA7 and really like it. Had no problems at all with the install. Everything is very stable. Make sure you have at least a 250W power supply.

I just bought an Athlon 800 and Abit KA7 MB. But when I run Q3 in 640x480, fastest setting with all game options turned off, I only get 63 FPS. Is this good, or sound to low? BTW, I have a Creative Blaster TNT 16MB video card and 196MB of RAM. TIA

I would love to upgrade, but the new CPU and MB, broke my bank for a couple of months. I was just looking at sites like anandtech and sharkyextreme. And their review of the Athlon 800 with a TNT2, they were getting 88 FPS. Is the TNT2 that much better than the TNT? I thought I would at least be able to get 75 FPS.

What do you mean by slow? What kind of frame rate are you getting?

Norton, I believe is only for Win 9x. It won't work in 2000. Especially if the drive is format NTFS.