BladeRunner

Ah... I'm aware that good quality RAM can be run faster than it's validated speed. Ie. Some PC66 RAM was happy at 100mhz and some PC100 RAM is happy at 133mhz. What I'm actually on about is the ability of the 815 chipset to run the RAM side of things at a different speed to the CPU. So I wouldn't actually be 'over-clocking' PC100 DIMM's to 133mhz, rather the 815 chipset would be running the CPU at 133mhz but the memory would only be running at 100mhz (The correct validated speed). ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 640MB PC100 RAM (Hyundai), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

I must be a lucky one. I have the Intel USB camera. Model number printed on the bottom is: YC76. Just plugged it in, Win2000 automatically detected it. When using NetMeeting it appears as the default video capture device. No problems with it. Using the Intel software isn't possible, when Intel had a forum for the camera's then said over and over again that support would never be made for WinNT as they don't consider that the platform for these cameras. Paul

I can't believe the amount of fuss that LiveWare! adding maybe 10 seconds to your boot time has caused. As the subject says this is under Windows 2000. My Windows 2000 machine stays on 24/7, it doesn't need to re-booted very often. So if once a week (I usually re-boot once a week to sort out the memory that some terrible applications have leaked away) I have to wait an extra 10 seconds, so what! Lets work this out, 10 seconds a week, 520 seconds a year, lets say I live to 75, I'm 25 now, that means from now until the day I die I will have wasted......7.2hours. Is this really worth all the hassle? ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 640MB PC100 RAM (Hyundai), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

As one of the previous posts says Linux has it's own market at the moment. Can anyone remember a year or so ago when everybody in the Linux community said that Linux would make the break onto the home users PC. It just hasn't happened. From a networked point of view Linux is great. Running a web server under WindowsNT 4 was bad at the best of times, UNIX was your only other option. But from a home user point of view they simply aren't ready for Linux no more than they are ready for WindowsNT. The home user is used to going out and purchasing the latest application or game, slamming it into their PC and off they go - At the present time they simply can't do this with Linux. Another issue is technical support. With so many variations of Linux around and with so many builds of some modules available, the job of a technical support person trying to give support to the home user would be a nightmare. That is why most of the big computer vendors are reluctant to offer Linux as a home OS. Yes Linux is stable, but so is Windows 2000. I am yet to crash my home system since the installation of the final gold code. The bottom line is that Linux is around now and will be around for ever, if it wants to get into the home computer market it has to start convincing all games manufacturers to port their games over - No point in just a few as the user will always want to play that game that isn't support in Linux. Corel were kind of forced to port their software over, mainly because of their lack of market in Windows based applications. Their office package lacks some of the features of others and Corel Draw, once considered the best of the drawing packages simply can't hold onto that crown anymore. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 640MB PC100 RAM (Hyundai), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

Hi, You have installed the latest version of MS Intellitype? I have the Internet Keyboard Pro. All keys are woking fine, however sometimes just a tap on the keys doesn't launch the program. IE. I tap E-Mail and the small bar saying 'Microsoft Outlook' appears but the program doesn't run, if I press and hold all is well. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 640MB PC100 RAM (Hyundai), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

Quote: i would use me to run my games as it will have better compatibilty with hardware AND software than win2000pro as installing new hardware with 2000 is a nightmare! it's so hard when u r installing something which only has drivers for win9X so u have to log on and download the win2000 drivers and sometimes the companies just don't made 1. That is why you check to make sure your PC will be compatible with Windows 2000 BEFORE you install it. Rubbish is hardware more difficult to setup under Windows 2000, it has a fully functioning plug&play layer, and if your motherboard correctly supports ACPI it's even easier. A lot of the more bizarre hardware is also supported by Windows 2000. Of all my games only Carmageddon 2 wont run and with Carmageddon TDR coming out first of next month nothing to worry about here. If you have the compatible hardware, Windows 2000 is the way to go, get used to it, come next year you will be forced over to it. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 640MB PC100 RAM (Hyundai), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

I don't see what all the fuss is with the Highpoint controllers. As I stated higher up I have had no problems what so ever with this integrated controller - hay maybe I've just been lucky. Hardly a great response to the guy 'Rip out your controller and buy another one' OK so the Promise controllers are the industry leaders on ATA-66, but that doesn't automatically mean you should rip out any other make. Adaptec are the industry leaders on SCSI cards, doesn't mean I immediately tell people to rip their Diamond SCSI cards out. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 640MB PC100 RAM (Hyundai), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

Just as a follow up to the above post. The latest version of the BIOS for your controller card is 1.25, the latest Win2k drivers are also 1.25. I have an ABit BE6-II motherboard with this controller integrated, running 2 IBM drives (One of each chanel) and I can honestly say I have had no problems at all with this controller. Check the BIOS on the controller and as the guy above said, the Firmware on your HD. Win2000 is very very picky about Firmware. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 640MB PC100 RAM (Hyundai), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

Hi, Not as far as I'm aware. There has been nothing released by Microsoft to this effect, so anything being touted around the Internet will be thrid-party. There are a few utilities out there that enable Win98 to see and read the NTFS file format once Win98 is running, but I don't know of anything that would actually enable Win98 to install onto or boot from an NTFS partition. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 640MB PC100 RAM (Hyundai), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

Hi, Most certainly. As with all Microsoft Service Packs you really should install them. It's always best to wait two or three days so that if the Service Pack has any major flaws in and is pulled you wont have to uninstall it (Service Pack 6 for WinNT for example) I've now installed it onto 4 machines all without any issues. I had one small problem on my own home PC, but I'm pretty sure that wasn't SP1's fault. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 640MB PC100 RAM (Hyundai), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

WindowsME is a complete mess of code. It's internal workings are based mainly on the Win95 code, which in turn has it's roots firmly placed in DOS. WinME will be the usual memory leaking beast because of it's design. I really don't see what all the fuss about WinME is. It's going to be a £60 upgrade - A far simpler upgrade to your Win98 installation would be IE 5.5 and Media Player 7 - Job done. Of the two machines I installed WinME on, both ran out of resources at about the same rate as Win98. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 640MB PC100 RAM (Hyundai), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

Depends totally on what you need. Nothing can touch the NVidia cards for pure fps. The ATI cards are looking nice, but after previous fun with ATI and their 'amazing' driver releases I wouldn't ever touch another one. I'm very happy with my Matrox G400MAX. OK so it doesn't have the pure fps that the NVidia cards can offer, but it is over a year old now. Windows 2000 drivers are good and don't seem to have the same kind of problems the NVidia ones have. The Diablo II Direct 3D slow downs look NVidia related (I don't have them) GTA2 runs (Many NVidia owners can't get it to run) Bottom line, if you want pure speed look at the Geforce & Geforce 2 - However, expect whatever NVidia card you buy to be replaced by something faster in about 3 months time, that does seem to be the average shelf life before they release something new. If you want something nice and new, then look at ATI, but from a personal view I wont. The Matrox is a great little card that plays all the games I want to play with no visable slow-down's and pretty stable drivers. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 640MB PC100 RAM (Hyundai), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

Notice the word possible here. I've been experiencing a problem with file systems which only seem to have started since I applies SP1. Over my two HD's I have 3 encrypted folders. 2 on my main C drive and 1 on my D drive. Anyway, now when I try to access the folders through either Windows Explorer or My Computer I get the grey box, red cross 'Incorrect Function' error. I only get this error when I try to access one of my encrypted folders. If I try and use the good old CD command from a Command Prompt I get 'Incorrect Function' as the DOS response. If I either bring up properties or run a Command prompt DIR on the folder it tells me the folder contains no data, but I know there is data there. If I try to delete the folder throgh Windows Explorer I get the message 'Cannot Delete - Folder is not empty' and Win2k Command prompt doesn't have the 'deltree' command. Anybody else encountered this problem either before or after SP1 installation? Has anybody get any ideas of what might be the problem? These encrypted folders were created using the administrator account, I always log in as admin. Also a scandisk revelas no errors on the drive. It appears something has gone screwey with the encryptions. BTW - If I try and decrypt the folder I get the error message 'Incorrect Function'. Now I suppose all of my data is now very safe from outside eyes, only problem - mine too!! ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 512MB PC100 RAM (Hyundai), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

I've got a MS Sidewinder Game Pad Pro - USB attached to my system that works great. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

Hi, Seen plenty of 'socket to slot' converters doing the rounds. Would allow me to insert a 'FlipChip' PIII into a slot1 motherboard. Do converters the other way around exist? IE. To plug a Sloti PIII 650 Coppermine into one of the forthcoming 815 chipset motherboards? If they do, who makes them? Cheers as always. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410.

Can't say I've had any of the issues you have mentioned. I also know for a fact that Intellipoint 3.2 installs without any issues what so ever as I installed it myself on my PC. Maybe you hired gardeners to put your machine together? :-p ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

OK, I'm at work at the moment, so I haven't been able to try this game out on my own machine. Here is the spec of my work PC. SE440BX-2 Motherboard, 128MB RAM, Matrox G400 32mb Non-Max, Yamaha On-Board Souncard. Running the latest beta G400 drivers (5.11, released yesterday) Results so far: Installation - Did Full (320MB) Install, no issues. Intro - Ran absolutely fine Graphics Calibration - No issue, ran through each screen test very fast, very smooth. Quick Race - Don't have time at work to run a proper game with practice/qualifying etc so jumped into the Quick Race option. Game runs very fast, very smooth with default graphics options on. I'm not sure what graphics options are not switched on (Didn't even get chance to check the Options page) Conclusion so far: This game is going to run very nicely under Win2k. Matrox (They might not be as quick as the NVidia's, but the drivers seem nice and stable) drivers working fine. I have a SB Live! at home, so will have to check that later. Result: 3 lap race, finished 8th, damn Irvine knocked me off the track at the first corner when I'd moved from 6th on the grid to 3rd by first corner. Next time Irvine, next time! ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

Hi, It's not released until Friday, so I wont be able to say until about 6:00pm. Please see the message in this forum: 'Another Game Company says no to Win2k' Just so you know where the GP3 manufacturers stand on this. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

I think you have reached a time in computing you wont forget in a hurry From this day forward: Your gonna have to dump those old DOS games. If the game requires a 'Buffers=' line then it really isn't designed for Win98 let alone Win2000. Take a look at the newer releases, are there any games similar? ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

It depends where you bought the game. If like me you live in the UK then it will be expecting English (United Kingdom) where if you are in the US it will be expecting English (United States). Now I had this problem and I think I know where you haven;t set the default language. It's a button that you think maybe it should do the job, but you don't expect it to bring up a sub menu Go: Control Panl>Regional Options At the top you have the option of 'Locale' set this to where in the world you are. Now at the bottom of this page you will also see a button 'Set Default' Click this and a new box will open, once again select where in the world you are from this list. Now after setting both of these you should find Quake2 both installs and plays as well as it ever did under Win98. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

When reading my reply back I find that the 'NOT' wasn't really required We have a couple of external USB ones at work and they really are nice and fast, much better than the parallel port ones. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

Hi, You have two choices for the internal ZIP. IDE or the much rarer SCSI version. ZIP 100 was available in both, haven't seen the 250 as an internal SCSI unit - although you can get them for the MAC so they must exist. The ZIP drive is NOT a replacement for your floppy drive, so it doesn't use that connection. External USB models are fast. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

Do you mean..... Nothing appears to be happening in IE, you bring up the 'Task Manager' and the application is listed as 'Not Responding'? Can't say I've had that problem with either 5.01 or currently 5.5 under Win2000 yet. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

The 'Fat' option Win2000 gives you during installation is in fact Fat32. With a Win2k CD you can't actually format your HD in plain old fat, just Fat32 & NTFS. Both my HD's were formatted as Fat32 when I first installed Win2000. Since then I've changed over to NTFS on both. Fat32 is supported by Win2k and is supported as a boot partition. If anything, having an old fat partition would cause you problems - but it doesn't. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only

I can confirm no issues here either. Win2000, NAV 2000 & IE 5.5