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If the IPs on the Win98 boxes are static and you are using NetBIOS names on all the machines (no "dot-coms"), then just use a LMHOSTS file on you Win2k box. Normally, the NT/Win2K boxes look for a browse master and when using Network Neighborhood. Now, one of the 98 boxes was probably the browse master, but when the Win2K box came online, it declared itself the senior machine on the network and became the new browse master. Unfortunately, this means that you have to wait anywhere from 15-60mins for all the machines to get on the new browse master's list. While the 98 boxes will talk to each other when looking for a browse master, the NT\Win2K boxes don't seem to. So, unless you set up a server as your WINS/DHCP/Browse Master on your network, you may be in for long browse requests to come. Just go straight TCP/IP for all the machines, and use a LMHOSTS file (c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc). The file should give you all the instructions that you will need to setup your network. If you have any questions, let me know. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Are you using a router? I would suggest power-cycling (turning it off then back on) if you are. Seems almost like a resolution failure. I know that when I have strange problems like that, I usually have to reset my router (though I am using ISDN as opposed to you xDSL). ------------------ Regards, clutch

Um, not quite. I lock my stations (at home and work) and the screensaver/power mgmt features kick in like usual. Locking the station shouldn't kick you out of the Win2K code or anything like that. It just lets you lock out the kb/mouse and blank-out the screen with a login prompt (that usually drops to the screensaver, then to any power saving modes that you have set). On my machines, I do have the screensaver set to lock the station when it kicks in, but I usually lock the station manually. ------------------ Regards, clutch

I can't tell from the link if the KDS is an "AG" (Aperture Grill) model. If it is, I would get the KDS. I was choosing between a KDS model and my Radius L1. They were both at Best Buy, and were around $440 (last October) while the Sony 19" was $580. Sony provides the CRTs to Radius and KDS (along with other vendors, like the Dell Trinitron) while the vendor comes up with their own supporting electronics. I picked up the Radius because I liked the control layout on the monitor better than the one on the KDS. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Same volume of air going in should go out as well. If there is a difference between them, you will effectively have the volume of the lesser vent (intake or exhaust). ------------------ Regards, clutch

I just bought a SBLive MP3+ and it runs quite well in Win2K with Liveware 3. I have have done gaming, MP3 ripping, and wav file editing with the card. I have had the card for about week now to replace an old Turtle Beach Montego from an old Dell (I bought an MX400 first, but it was so limited in functionality by the lack of updated drivers that I took it back the next day). I have the following: PIII 550@605 256MB RAM 25GB IDE HD (IBM) ASUS P3B-F Visiontek GeForce SDR (ver 5.30 drivers) Intel Pro/100 Mgmt Adapter SB Live! MP3+ Samsung 6x DVD/32x CD Drive Win2K Retail ------------------ Regards, clutch [This message has been edited by clutch (edited 31 July 2000).]

I was using the 5.22 set for quite a while. I used them mostly for stability, however there haven't been any feature improvements for the TNT cards in quite a while with the driver revisions. Honestly, if you like the 5.30s (which I use for my GeForce), then I would just continue to do so. ------------------ Regards, clutch

I use SP6a on 2 servers and 30 workstations, no problems. Are you able to ping the other boxes? Can you type the UNC path in IE and connect to the other machines and their respective shares? Don't just count on "Network Neighborhood" to show you all your information. I know I had problems with NT4 WS in a Win98/Novell environment because of browse master issues. ------------------ Regards, clutch

On one of the overclocking sites (and I can't find it right now), some joker fried a 1GHz T-Bird in 8 seconds with a wrong fan/heatsink combo. Just something to think about. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Well, the second set of numbers sounds right. It almost sounds like you are reading degrees fahrenheit for the 70 and 90 numbers and degrees celsius for the 30 and 40 readings (not quite, but close enough to wonder about it). Besides, I thought the program got its information from the BIOS sensors and would be the same reading as found in the hardware monitor. ------------------ Regards, clutch

I have used 2 V770U cards in Win98,NT4, and 2K without any gamma problems in Windows. The only gamma issues I had were with Q3A in Win2K. Have you tried different drivers? How about a different monitor? ------------------ Regards, clutch

Here u go, it's a familiar topic around here... http://www.ntcompatible.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/000024-3.html ------------------ Regards, clutch

Are you using dynamic disks? Diskeeper 5 will not support them, even though the "lite" version that comes with Win2K does. ------------------ Regards, clutch

In addition, some proxy software will not support gaming across them. My friend uses winroute in the same configuration that you are mentioning and game out through the server to the internet. In addition, he can port forward from the server to his main PC and host UT and Q3 servers from said main PC. He had Win98 on his PC and NT 4.0 on his server. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Here's a wacky idea. Try taking the NIC out of it. I had a NIC going nuts on me before and Win2K locked at the same point. I took the NIC out and it let me in (with a ton of errors about services not working tho). I uninstalled the NIC and shutdown. After putting in a new one, I installed it and all was well. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Don't worry dude, you sound like you are on the right track. However, as far as the speed thing goes, Win9x doesn't fully support fast ethernet; only NT and Win2K do (as far as MS stuff goes). And even then, if you force full speed (100Mbps) you may get varying performance probs on the network (corrupted transmisions, machines "disappearing", etc). It will still be faster than 10Mbps though. As far as speed checking, in Win2K you get a little icon that is very similar to the dial-up networking icon and it will tell you what you are connecting at (10Mbps or 100Mbps). You can probably get freeware/shareware programs that are much better at measuring speed however. I have used "Vital Agent", it works on Win9x, NT, 2K and is really cool. I usually use the network monitor that comes with SMS 2.0 though. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Basically, swap file setup is more of a tweak than anything. If you have a decent system (i.e. 350 or above, 128MB+ RAM and at least 50% free space on your hd) don't worry about it. My primary concern is to get the swap file off of the system partition, then if possible onto another drive. As far as selecting what drive to put it on, most systems wont have a huge difference between multiple hard drives in the same system. On my main home pc, I have the swap file on a different partition. On my home server, I have it on a stripe set w/o parity. At work, I have it on a RAID5 set that doesn't have an active database, system partition, or IIS Index catalog (in this order of priority). If you find that you can't decide where to place it in your current system, don't worry about it. It's more of a tweak for high-demand systems in order to spread the I/O load across all the hard drives. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Yeah, it appears you still have to edit the .inf file to get decent refresh rates in OpenGL (btw, I never got the vid_refreshrate or whatever command to work in Q3, so the .inf file is the only way to go). ------------------ Regards, clutch

Is IP Forwarding enabled? ------------------ Regards, clutch

The copy of SP6 (128Bit) that I have is 34MB. Sounds like you may have a bad d/l. A lot of the problem could be that you don't have the active desktop installed. Now bear in mind that you don't have to have it enabled, just installed. This will also give you the quick launch bar at the bottom like on 98 and IE4 (SP2 with the option pack). You can go to SP6 (with a good d/l) later and get IE5. It's all in how you layer the service packs bud. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Guess you can't have a BSOD if you can't find anything to run on it... ------------------ Regards, clutch

Kool, so you brought up the whole memory model thing. You may want to point out that the whole 2GB/4GB thing is actually referring to the total amount of memory addresses available to the system (seeing as the min requirements for an installation of NT WS/Server are 110MB and 125MB of hard drive space respectively. Couple that with the 12MB and 16MB min RAM configs and there would be now way in hell to support all those addresses directly with either physical RAM, Swap File, or the combination of both. Good points on the app not having direct control over the memory functions. It's just a good idea to distribute the I/O activity evenly over your resources if possible. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Maybe you can get a "stud" classification instead. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Ideally you don't want to put the swap file on the same partition/drive as one with high I/O activity (namely the system partition). I put my pagefile on a different partition on this machine and on a different RAID5 array on my server here and the servers at work. There are some trade-offs to keep in mind though. Say, if you had 2HDs with one partition each. You would have the system root on one and maybe SQL7 on another. I wouldn't recommend putting the pagefile on the same partition as the SQL7 install due to constant activity. I usually locate the pagefile on a non-system partition that is more file-only based. No constantly running apps accessing it, just files that may get hit on a moderate basis. ------------------ Regards, clutch

While not an AMD user, I saw this post on agn3d.com that I think may help out some of the peeps on this board. http://www.agnhardware.com/html/agnhw-news.cfm?date=05/09/2000&NewsID=#12073 It seems to state that the wrong AGP-to-CPU bridge driver is being used and there is some way to fix it. This link goes to a brief synopsis of an article on tomshardware.com. Hope this helps. ------------------ Regards, clutch