Cardinal

Thanks Toby. You're a legend.

Wolf, when you say 'leak' are you refering to the deletion of 'sam' from the config dir? As far as I know, SP1 did not. This method has worked for me with the service pack installed. Guess we'll wait and see if sp2 provided a solution. I guess, it is rather sad that this method does work at all.

Sounds interesting. Could you mail to me also, and perhaps a screen shot of the new icons would go down well. Any stability problems? gwilymw@optushome.com.au [This message has been edited by Cardinal (edited 09 March 2001).]

Haru. you seem like an ignorant 'weak user' as opposed to a power user. Anyone who has tried to get something decent from ME has suffered freezes, desktop dumps, bsod etc etc. It sucks. 98se was better for games. ME is a resource hog for such a crap OS. If you can call it that. It is in my opinion, as bad as 95.

Hold on Wolf. 8 bit? You don't mean the monitor resolution do you? What exactly do you set to 8 bit?

I came across a registry hack that, while combined with a certain crack fixes the problem people have with Office 2000 and their service pack. The solution is too long to mention here but if anyone is interested, it's relatively easy to follow, simply consisiting of one 'hack' and applying the aforementioned crack. Email me for the details. I understand many are against software piracy, but we'll leave that discussion for another post. - Card. ------------------ [This message has been edited by Cardinal (edited 07 March 2001).]

PowerDVD 3.0 should work better with windows 2000. Lets face it, for DVD playback you don't have much of a choice. WinDVD is crap. this might be a good place to start. Please don't post link to ***** here thank [This message has been edited by SHS (edited 16 March 2001).]

I normally run W2K from the sole admin profile on my pc as security issues are massively overatted, especially for a home user. But recently when I decided to add another user profile (Restricted user) Upon boot up under the new user name I receive an error message that states "Unable to log you in, an error has occured Please contact your Administrator [unable to locate some file] How is this possible? Anyone have a way of fixing this bar re-installing? Cheers. Celeron 566 128 Ram 20g HDD WinME/W2K

To elaborate on what the french dude said. W2k has a constant hang up with installing programs. Does it have a limit to the size of your temp directory? So many times when installing a prog I get a message saying something like "installation unable to continue, please free up more space on your hard drive" which is bull****, I have 13 gigs or so free. Also, when installing some programs (eg: intellipoint software 3.2)after the initial extraction of the temp files w2k runs the wrong executable from the temp directory! Someone is hiring gardeners to do the programming at M$.

http://www.3dspotlight.net has an excellent w2k modem tweak guide.

http://www.3dspotlight.net/ there is an accurate services tweak guide here.

The majority of posts on NT Compatible are about people either having problems with the OS, or with programs that operate within the OS. Unlike anything on the 9x kernel (even that shi*ful winME) windows 2000, if successfully installed and left alone will sit and run quite well without any random errors or lockups (unless you run it on a VIA chipset). So many people install beta or even alpha programs that are so poory coded, no one, not even the coders will know how it will react to the OS. whether it be, win media player 7, or DX8 or IE 5.x have you not learnt to stay the hell away from beta's? Leave the testing to Windows 98. It's so much less painful to reinstall that crap than w2k.

Ryo (or something) disregarding your first question [i had a via chipset mobo and found disabling ACPI made the pc crash less but it worked fine on my bx2000] About your tnt2u question and the drivers. I was curious about the exact same thing, like when I would let any OS detect the card they would insist it was a TNT2 not a TNT2Ultra so initially I thought I had been taken for a fool at the pc market but later found most people experience the same thing. I still don't know which driver to use but I will say that in quake 3 and both UT I received 3 fps faster with the TNT2 drivers. :\

Bizou, many people did have problems with Liveware 3. After the shocking job creative did with number 2 I guess it was foolish to expect LW 3 to work perfectly. Anyway, I had a similar problem to yours but I did have liveware 2 installed before number 3 (I just upgraded it) that was the problem,liveware 2 was crap, together they were terrible. Liveware 3 should be installed on a 'clean' windows 2000 to minimize problems.

Hehe.. sorry, I can't really help with that one but I thought I'd just let you know your post cracked me up

Hey guys. Most people who are running a dual boot system (98 & W2K that is)are probably going to change the 98 OS to ME. Yeah so it's just a flashy upgrade. Even if it is just a disguised Service Pack, wouldn't most people apply it? Anyway, the questions I have to ask are; 1. Will ME upgrade over 98? 2. Will it destroy the NT boot loader? 3. Can you safely leave w2k on your pc and just repair the partitions? Cheers, Cardinal. [This message has been edited by Cardinal (edited 08 July 2000).]

I thought I'd throw in my two cents. Stability and VIA should never be used in the same sentence, unless it is followed by a 'LMAO' Your problems are a conflict with the geforce and the chipset I'd say. I experienced this with a tnt2 ultra. The via 4in1 drivers made a small difference but in the end, when there was a load on the vid card and the memory a lockup would occur. No way around it. In the end, I found a bx board with a blown bios (yeah I'm using the second bios) to be more stable than a via mobo. (Incidently, some studies have found a problem with the memory bus on VIA chipset boards)

Hey. I saw this over at activewindows. IE SP1 makes an incorrect addition to the registry that stops office 2000's help from working. The fix is an easy regedit. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ Internet Explorer\ modify the 'build' value to 53103.1000

Hehe.. I'm with you Matt. I share the same attitude. The time for patience is over, Lets face it. This proves that that Harvey Wrong character does NOT use windows 2000. Anyway you look at it. Windows 2000, Windows ME or whatever damn OS you use. If you own a Sblive you should be entitled to customer support. Creative have royally failed in that area. [Anyone want to swap a sblive for an mx300? ]

Jesus. No one is asking MS to change their kernel. All we want are a few drivers for **** sakes. An all too common occurence is that a company releases a driver that is past being 'overdue' The driver still contains bugs, thats the nature of releasing updates. Many years ago, before the net people just lived with the many flaws within games because an update was not avaliable. Now that it is, we demand that us, as consumers get what we pay for. I mean, for someone to pay $500+ for an office package and to have it 'peform an illegal operation' is bull****. Now days all we do is say 'oh well, I'll reboot and then spend 6 hours on the net looking for a patch' Screw that. And then some pod comes along and throws his out of date morals in your face saying piracy is wrong. Anyway.. after all the rants and faulty drivers, for someone to say 'be happy with what you got' is a totally worthless comment and that attitude has no place here. If we were all happy with what we got, these forums would be useless.

I think your request was reasonable. Many NT(w2k) users are using a dual boot system so the question pr-man asks is relevant. I'd say via is still miles from being anywhere close to king. I owned a gigabyte GA-6VX7 mobo that used the apollo pro chipset (socket 370) and had zillions of probs. Random reboots, complete freezes (every 3 hours or so) games freezing, etc.. Tried all the via 4-1 drivers. Useless. Bios upgrades, drivers.. nothing would work. In the end, went back to BX. Not one hardware crash. VIA chipsets remain dodgy to say the least.

Mondain, you used the word 'uninformed' to describe someone on the net. Oh, and you are INFORMED? not one person online truly is. Heck, not even that character at creative seems to know whats going on within his own company. And I'll add that you seem a tad naive. Liveware 2 drivers for windows 2000 were WHQL certified. And only a pod would state that those drivers were nicely coded. SO when (un)creative release liveware 3 they will most likely still contain flaws. And once again we will be here asking for the next version of deadware.

Yeah dragon makes a good point. certification means jack sh*t. Nvidia's 'certified' tnt drivers gave me hangs and reboots. Wish someone released a few leaked versions of creatives mess they call 'liveware'

Can anyone help me out with this error? Event Type: Error Event Source: perfctrs Event Category: None Event ID: 3101 Date: 12/06/2000 Time: 5:59:58 PM User: N/A Computer: CELERON Description: Unable to read IO control information from NBT device.

Run 'chkdsk /f' from a dos prompt within w2k.