JediBaron

hehe - damn! I've tried all those tweek utilities and stuff before and none helped. But I just realized that I'd never tried that override value. DOH! - <smacks self in forehead>. The override setting worked - 100fps in DirectX now Thanks

Well, I do know why mine doesn't score as high in Win2k as Win98. Any progam that uses directx in fullscreen on my mchine will cap out at a 60fps frame rate. Programs with OpenGL won't after you shut off that options and Directx programs that run in a Window don't cap either. I've never found a way around it

hehe - it filtered out the @ss is h@ssle - that's funny, took me a min to figure out what you asked As far as any normal components that I've had bad times with, I'd have to rate the worst as FIC's 503+ m/b and to a lesser extent their 2013 m/b. Those boards have such a m***ively flawed MVP3 implimentation that they make it near impossible to get everything working exactly right. And the old AGP voltage fluctuations like to toast the nice expensive video cards. My personal favorite is if you try to load up Via's UDMA driver in Win9x for the 503+. You will be instantly treated to the slowest harddrive access ever recorded Take's like 5-10 mins just to get into windows, then every step to the uninstall takes an eternity - hehe I've found many m/b's that impliment the MVP3 chipset to run beautifully though like DFI's K6XV3 +/66 (my favorite of the socket 7 boards) The AMD chipset timing problem with the A3D sound card and then the company closing up was a nice one too I've heard that there are now new drivers that may fix it, but haven't tried them. Of course now that Creative owns them we can look forward to stealing the fixed drivers that they'll probably make for some other company that they deal with like Intel or Dell- hehe All-in-all, most of the newer chipsets have worked pretty well. Only those damn bios's are the probs. That's why I'm only sticking to m/b manufacturers with lots of continuing support like ASUS, ABIT, and DFI for all my new systems. Boy this post is getting long . . . Of course everyone knows the Nvidia cards have had lots of probs, but I love the 'leaked' driver thing. With Nvidia there is so many different driver bases and bios's that problem solving is a easy, if not time consuming process It's the price we pay for performance, with Voodoo not even coming close to keeping up, Nvidia is the logical (and only) choice for all high-end graphics. let see . . . what else? Oh yeah, that whole HP CD Writer causing all other cd drives to disappear sucked the bag. And HP didn't post the answer to the problem until a month after the first time it happened to me Ok - my fingers hurt now - hehe Let me just say that the best cheap hardware config is probably close to the one I have now, I love it. If money's no object a P3 815 board is probably the best compatible newer board (but who wants to help out Chipzilla, especially nowadays). All I need now is a Geforce 3 (is that what they're going to call the NV20?). Damn am I a greedy bastard Till my next insanely long raving post , JediBaron Operating System: Windows 2000 Pro sp1 (running fully PNP w/ ACPI) Processor: AMD K7 T-Bird 800@900(1.88V,+4degC) w/ 256 Megs PC133 Motherboard: Asus A7V (1005.03e BIOS) w/ the newest Via 4 in 1, ASUS Promise 100 drivers b25 Hard Drive: Maxtor 1536H2 on the Promise 100 Video: Asus 6600 SGRAM w/ Asus sba bios (AGP Geforce 256,32meg - Nvidia drivers v6.47) Sound: SB 128 PCI (1373 chip w/ 5.12.01.4035 WDM drivers - certified) Modem: USR 56K PCI Network: NETGEAR FA310TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (PCI 10/100 card) SCSI: PCI Advansys SCSI Host Adapter CD Burner: Smart&Friendly 4x SCSI Printer: Epson Stylus 740 (USB) Scanner: UMAX Astra 1220U (USB) Misc: Creative PC-DVD 5X drive, USB Intellimouse Optical w/ intellipoint 3.2 (ver. 3.20.0.484), Gravis Xterminator gamepad with 4.2.0.3 (beta test ver dated 11/28/00) DirectX: 8.0 (4.08.00.0400) [This message has been edited by JediBaron (edited 30 November 2000).]

That number has tracked true with all the medium to high performance system with a Live card that has come through my office. I myself spent 3 months with my own system trying to get my SB Live to stop malfunctioning because I hate to give up. After all the rinstalls, beta drivers, registry hacks, and hardware configs nothing was able to fix mine. I finally traded my $100 Live card for a $25 card which worked without a hitch. While I've been able to get most other systems working right eventually. Mainly through hardware reconfigs and reinstalls with the last thing being the SB Live software. Some have worked good as long as you just use the WDM drivers, but that kind of defeats the purpose. Win9x machines mess up a lot with them too, but I've been always able to fix all of them (at least in the short run till they mess up again). Sometimes all I can do is simply reinstall and I don't like that one bit. And on Win2k, it is the only piece of hardware that has ever caused a problem for me that required a reinstall to fix. Every other problem with hardware in Win2k has been fixable. I don't know who you work for, but think of all the hardware config problems caused by cards (not m/b's) that you've ever seen in Win2k machines(serious ones, not just updated drivers or something). Every time I have a Win2k machine with some kind of unusual hardware config problem it's always got a Live in it, so for me that percentage is actually 100% . But I'm sure I'll come across something else in the future that causes a problem too.

I disagree strongly with you, FKTOAST. 95% of all Win2k hardware problems currently come from the SB Live cards. They have all kinds of problems, even some that you can only reinstall Win2k to fully fix. They perform like lame dogs - try mixing 16 voices on your Live and then on something like the SB128. You'll see a massive difference. Sure the SB Live is packed with features and even has a programmable processor, but in Win2k (and many Win98) systems it's just a pain in the butt. Don't mistake the current lack of high-end soundcards as a sign that SB Live is the best. I think you'll find that once someone else comes in with a high end card that it will probably prove to be much better and WAY more compatible than the flakey SB Live's ever were. Certified through practical experience!! (hehe - sorry, I just HAD to add that )

Here! Here! ME is trash! pos os

I think the only way you can get it is by emailing tech support at Lucent.

Just loaded in the new beta bios ver 1005.03e. Finally, I can run my Geforce at AGP 4x and it's perfectly stable. I have all the default options loaded in the BIOS w/optimal settings and everything's sweet. I've run it through heavy D3d testing which normally would kill my Geforce when the board was set to 4x, but they all run sweet now I'm sure that this new BIOS will also fix other Nvidia problems. I can honestly say that that was my last performance hurtle that I wanted to leap with this machine. Now my universe is complete. LOL. Operating System: Windows 2000 Pro sp1 (running fully PNP w/ ACPI) Processor: AMD K7 T-Bird 800@900(1.88V,+4degC) w/ 256 Megs PC133 Motherboard: Asus K7a (1005.03e BIOS) w/ the newest Via 4 in 1, ASUS Promise 100 drivers b25 Hard Drive: Maxtor 1536H2 on the Promise 100 Video: Asus 6600 SGRAM w/ Asus sba bios (AGP Geforce 256,32meg - Nvidia drivers v6.47) Sound: SB 128 PCI (1373 chip w/ 5.12.01.4035 WDM drivers - certified) Modem: USR 56K PCI Network: NETGEAR FA310TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (PCI 10/100 card) SCSI: PCI Advansys SCSI Host Adapter CD Burner: Smart&Friendly 4x SCSI Printer: Epson Stylus 740 (USB) Scanner: UMAX Astra 1220U (USB) Misc: Creative PC-DVD 5X drive, USB Intellimouse Optical w/ intellipoint 3.2 (ver. 3.20.0.484), Gravis Xterminator gamepad with 4.2.0.2 driver DirectX: 8.0 (4.08.00.0400)

Oh geeze, I just realizewd today that I screwed up my speck sheet text file without realizing it. I accidently had k7a listed as my board instead of the A7V. DOH!!!!! Sorry about the damn typo Operating System: Windows 2000 Pro sp1 (running fully PNP w/ ACPI) Processor: AMD K7 T-Bird 800@900(1.88V,+4degC) w/ 256 Megs PC133 Motherboard: Asus A7V (1005.03e BIOS) w/ the newest Via 4 in 1, ASUS Promise 100 drivers b25 Hard Drive: Maxtor 1536H2 on the Promise 100 Video: Asus 6600 SGRAM w/ Asus sba bios (AGP Geforce 256,32meg - Nvidia drivers v6.47) Sound: SB 128 PCI (1373 chip w/ 5.12.01.4035 WDM drivers - certified) Modem: USR 56K PCI Network: NETGEAR FA310TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (PCI 10/100 card) SCSI: PCI Advansys SCSI Host Adapter CD Burner: Smart&Friendly 4x SCSI Printer: Epson Stylus 740 (USB) Scanner: UMAX Astra 1220U (USB) Misc: Creative PC-DVD 5X drive, USB Intellimouse Optical w/ intellipoint 3.2 (ver. 3.20.0.484), Gravis Xterminator gamepad with 4.2.0.2 driver DirectX: 8.0 (4.08.00.0400)

Your in the wrong site, bud. But here's my guess: I'll bet you have an FIC 503+ m/b with an AT power supply right? If you do there is no fix, period. The board's power management thinks that it can shut down, but it really can't because of the AT power supply so it simply reboots. It's not likely that FIC will ever fix this problem as their whole implimentation of the Via MPV3 is horribly flawed in all their boards. Everything, including AGP voltage problems, non-compliant UDMA IDE, messed up ACPI, and power management problems, is wrong with that board. Sorry.

Are you running Liveware or just the WDM drivers? 95% of all hardware problems in Win2k are caused by the sb live card sometimes there is no way to fix it either without a reinstall. It tends to screw up a whole bunch of little things. Networking, video, etc. it likes to mess up them all. If you do reinstall, just try using the WDM drivers, not the liveware and see if that fixes it as I'm sure it will.

Sweet so it looks like these machines are pretty much up to par now. once you add in my extra 100 mhz then we'd perform pretty even. Kul! I'll try your tweeks too

Alright dude, here you are: 1024x768 High=55.6 Normal=77.2 800x600 High=85.8 Normal=101.3 640x480 High=102.3 Normal=107.2 As you can see at 640x480 I start to get close to the limits of my card. The maximum speed that I can get at the absolute worst game settings is ~114fps. I normally run the game at 800x600 in high quality Later

hehe no, no - A "Cisco router" is a guy with a t-shirt that says 'Cisco' on it standing in the middle of the freeway directing truck traffic. BTW - Not only are you in the wrong forum to post such questions, but you are also in the wrong site. There are plenty of Cisco sites out there. But, then again, a little comic relief never hurt anyone. hehe

Everything works perfect for me . . . Operating System: Windows 2000 Pro sp1 (running fully PNP w/ ACPI) Processor: AMD K7 T-Bird 800@900(1.88V,+4degC) w/ 256 Megs PC133 Motherboard: Asus K7a (1005.03e BIOS) w/ the newest Via 4 in 1, ASUS Promise 100 drivers b25 Hard Drive: Maxtor 1536H2 on the Promise 100 Video: Asus 6600 SGRAM w/ Asus sba bios (AGP Geforce 256,32meg - Nvidia drivers v6.47) Sound: SB 128 PCI (1373 chip w/ 5.12.01.4035 WDM drivers - certified) Modem: USR 56K PCI Network: NETGEAR FA310TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (PCI 10/100 card) SCSI: PCI Advansys SCSI Host Adapter CD Burner: Smart&Friendly 4x SCSI Printer: Epson Stylus 740 (USB) Scanner: UMAX Astra 1220U (USB) Misc: Creative PC-DVD 5X drive, USB Intellimouse Optical w/ intellipoint 3.2 (ver. 3.20.0.484), Gravis Xterminator gamepad with 4.2.0.2 driver DirectX: 8.0 (4.08.00.0400)

cool, np just tell me how to run a timedemo never done it before

The application (the player) won't load in without the registry entries in the NT4 install.

Are you just using the Creative beta drivers with my registry fix? I used that for a long time and everything ran perfect. I do know that you can't have the card in slot 1 though (the one next to the AGP) cause the dxr3 hates sharing with the video card. I eventually removed the hardware decoder because I ran out of slots I'm now just using PowerDVD 2.55. It's not as fast as the dxr3, but I can now capture screens off of my movies which rocks. And besides, with 900Mhz on the old processor, I'm not to concerned about not having the cycles to handle decoding. PS. 95% of all Win2k hardware problems come from the damn SB Live card. If all else fails that's where you look.

99% of all Win2k hardware problems are SB Live related Look to that for your answer My rig is rock stable . . . Operating System: Windows 2000 Pro sp1 (running fully PNP w/ ACPI) Processor: AMD K7 T-Bird 800@900(1.88V,+4degC) w/ 256 Megs PC133 Motherboard: Asus K7a (1004c BIOS) w/ the newest Via 4 in 1, ASUS Promise 100 drivers b25 Hard Drive: Maxtor 1536H2 on the Promise 100 Video: Asus 6600 SGRAM w/ Asus sba bios (AGP Geforce 256,32meg - Nvidia drivers v6.34 - certified) Sound: SB 128 PCI (1373 chip w/ 5.12.01.4035 WDM drivers - certified) Modem: USR 56K PCI Network: NETGEAR FA310TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (PCI 10/100 card) SCSI: PCI Advansys SCSI Host Adapter CD Burner: Smart&Friendly 4x SCSI Printer: Epson Stylus 740 (USB) Scanner: UMAX Astra 1220U (USB) Misc: Creative PC-DVD 5X drive, USB Intellimouse Optical w/ intellipoint 3.2 (ver. 3.20.0.484), Gravis Xterminator gamepad with 4.2.0.2 driver DirectX: 8.0 (4.08.00.0400) [This message has been edited by JediBaron (edited 18 November 2000).]

Try uninstalling powerstrip. And if you've installed any other tweak software you should remove it. Never, ever leave tweak software and settings in the computer while upgrading drivers. It's just all around a bad practice.

I'm also experiencing a problem with Counterstrike 1.0. If I try anything but software mode it crashes when the screen normally curtains upward after you connect. I'm going to try some of the older 7.xx drivers and see if I can't get it to work.

Dude, rock on! I just installed Dx8 final today with the 7.17 drivers and my video's jammin. Just the programs that I've tried so far are much better. UT in OpenGL now runs completely smooth durring gameplay, before it was bad jerky, almost unplayable. Red Alert 2 no longer pauses during some sound effects when playing and the video runs 100% smooth now! I've played Counterstrike too and it seemed to help out the new model lag problem alot. This rocks, things are running much smoother now. My Direct3d is stil running slower than a Win98 machine by about half, but everything in general is running really good and smooth. Operating System: Windows 2000 Pro sp1 (running fully PNP w/ ACPI) Processor: AMD K7 T-Bird 800@900(1.88V,+4degC) w/ 256 Megs PC133 Motherboard: Asus K7a (1004c BIOS) w/ the newest Via 4 in 1, ASUS Promise 100 drivers b32 Hard Drive: Maxtor 1536H2 on the Promise 100 Video: Asus 6600 SGRAM w/ Asus sba bios (AGP Geforce 256,32meg - Nvidia drivers v7.17) Sound: SB 128 PCI (1373 chip w/ 5.12.01.4035 WDM drivers - certified) Modem: USR 56K PCI Network: NETGEAR FA310TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (PCI 10/100 card) SCSI: PCI Advansys SCSI Host Adapter CD Burner: Smart&Friendly 4x SCSI Printer: Epson Stylus 740 (USB) Scanner: UMAX Astra 1220U (USB) Misc: Creative PC-DVD 5X drive, USB Intellimouse Optical w/ intellipoint 3.2 (ver. 3.20.0.484), Gravis Xterminator gamepad with 4.2.0.2 driver DirectX: 8.0 (4.08.00.0400)

Duh! That's how it's supposed to work. The decoder get's the video signal from you video card and overlays it's own signal onto it befor sending it to the monitor. But first is XOR's out a certain color in the dvd player's window. You can go into the control panel and actually change the color that it's using t overlay. But it will also XOR out any of that color within the dvd window's boundries even if something's in front of the player. Change it to overlay a color that you don't use very much on your desktop like purple or something, then you'll see the effect less.

I didn't have any problem using the with Dx8Rc0. But they did cause a BSOD if I went into the color correction tab in the advanced setting . I went back to old 6.47.

Ya know, I've never noticed if the USB slows down during heavy IDE usage. I would think that it would be imperveous to any slowdowns like that being as the IDE and the USB are supposed to be tied into the bus on their own paths just like the AGP and memory are tied in on their own paths. This may mean that the chipset is using the IDE route for the USB also, and that they're not seperate. Very strange indeed, I'm going to see if I can dig up any flowcharts from Via to see if that's the case. . .