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It's been awhile since I used NT4. Try reinstalling the intellimouse software and see if that does the trick.

tough break gfrice, I guess SDRAM should be put to rest now. RDRAM is fast for P4, but you have to install in pairs all the time, but with DDR you can have 1, this is very convenient and makes upgrading easier.

Try completely removing it from the device manager and then have it redected on startup. If its a PS2 mouse unplug it and reboot, have NT4 complain about no mouse, shutdown and replug it in. For a serial mouse do the same thing I guess. What kind of mouse is it?

I have a VIA based board right now, the Asus K7V, and quite frankly it works fine. I had a VIA based board on an Abit KA7-100 which crapped out on me and gave me fits with hardware incompatibility. So I agree, that motherboard manufacturers can make the difference in how good a chipset is used. Clearly here the Asus make is better than the Abit. Intel chipsets are good, I have an old Pentium that uses the 430VX and it is rock solid running Windows 95 or Windows 98. The same goes for my uncles 440BX Asus Board, damn that thing is REAL stable. Although my next PC I am going with either an SIS or Intel chipset with an Intel Processor. I like to try different things, I really want to give SIS a try. I may try out an AMD XP processor with AMD chipset too, but I wanna try Intel next again.

Anybody attempted this? Specifically using Asus's EZ Plug system?

Kitchener, Ontario, I actually managed to find a reseller for MSI boards but they only offer the ones that OEMs would want. Other than that I know where I can get some ECS boards, Toronto.

Ti200 all the way. The GF4 MX is cheaper for a reason and is basically a souped up GF2.

I was considering an MSI board, but around where I live here in Canada they are difficult to find. Frankly only Asus, Abit boards are the most common followed by Gigagbyte. Then you can grab some by Soyo, DFI, Tyan and a few others, but MSI, Aopen, and ECS are difficult to locate.

I noticed you have an Asus P4b266 motherboard, how do you like it?

Quote: Why would you want to do such a thing? I am running a power hungry Athlon, SLOT variety right now on a 250-watt with a GeForce2 when everyone said I needed 300. Although if I do move to a P4 I would go with 350. I just wanted to know if anyone attempted this.

Yeah definitely, there is something ODD about ME, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I wish I knew why 98 won't run NFS High Stakes for me, its just really strange, but I use XP more now so no biggie, as for my ME install it just sits there for EXTREME cases.

The CD is fine since you have a 40x. As for the Maxtor 7200 ATA133 I know ATA100 is UDMA Mode 5 so I am guessing it should be either mode 5 or mode 6. I have an ATA66 drive and it is Ultra DMA mode 4.

Just wanted to know if anyone has an LG burner and what they thought of it?

Can someone just clarify this for me? I know all about DMA modes and Ultra DMA modes but what is Multiword DMA? My 52x CD uses Multiword DMA 2 and my Burner uses Mutliworld DMA? How do these relate to older DMA modes and PIO Modes?

It sure does, thanks for the feedback.

my crappy PC is as follows: Asus K7V VIA KX133 chipset BIOS 1008-D Beta AMD Athlon 750 SLOT A 512 MB PC133 RAM Panasonic S70 Monitor Hercules 3D Prophet II MX LG 52X CD-ROM Mitsumi 4x/4x/24x Burner Maxtor 20 GB 7200 RPM ATA100 Hard Disk a couple of floppy drives Altec Lansing ACS54 Speaker set SB Live Player 1024 Lucent 56k Modem Linksys USB 10/100 Adapter Belkin PCI 10/100 Adapter Logitech Wingman USB Gamepad A crappy 5 dollar PS/2 mouse and an ancient 101 AT Keyboard

AMD cpu on Intel chipset, now that would be like asking for a new color in the rainbow

Is DMA enabled for both of your hard disks? DMA for LAN possibly?

If you use a VIA chipset, get the PCI Latency Patch, it fixed my OpenGL mouse lags.

Quote: You guys with strong opinions, grow up. If the world were as simple as which is better: VIA or Intel (just like the good ol' "my daddy is bigger than yours") and there would be only one clear, undisputable answer in all cases only one of those companies would be left within days. Same goes for which is the best monitor, car, RAM-type, school, Harddisk, ****-star, PC-game: anything you name. H. The only way to ever solve a conflict is just to sit on that damn fence.

When I have 32-bit color on the desktop or JPG image as the backdrop I get lag because the menu fade effect takes longer to render in 32-bit, well for me anyway, everything is snappy in 16-bit. As for the JPG image its like ActiveDesktop enabled for 9x/2K, switch to a bitmap image or change your current one into BMP format.

Is it possible to update from Windows 2000 Pro to Windows 2000 Server in an unofficial way? Also, anyone here use Windows 2000 Server [or Windows.NET Beta] as their primary OS? How well does it work? How good is networking and ICS? Application support is probably the same as Pro? Games? Dual boot should be possible too... I have never used Server editions before so I was just curious.

It's a tie.........they all suck....

I have this old Canon BJC-600 that I got way back in 92, and it won't work with my current PC, an Athlon 750 with Asus motherboard. I set the BIOS to different LPT values like ECP, Standard, EPP, ECP/EPP, etc and everytime I print it just prints out garbage and random symbols like percent signs, dollar signs, and number signs. When I hook up the printer to my Pentium 166 it works fine, on all different parallel port modes including Normal, ECP/EPP, and ECP, and EPP. Anybody else have difficulties with older printers? I intend to get a new one soon, USB style, but just want to know why it won't work.

I've updated the drivers a bunch of times. First tried the Windows default drivers, then went to look for drivers on Canon's site and there aren't any and support told me to use the default Window drivers, so I don't think its a driver issue, since I used this printer on my Pentium when I briefly had Windows 2000 on it and it worked fine.