FakeMcCoy

Well, I have a K6-2 400 that's worked fine for me. It's sitting idle now that I have three other toys to play with. It's got a Asus P5A and case to go with it (Inwin A500, i think)

Only if the price is right. But I think I'll wait at least a few months for the technology to mature a bit.

The reason I'm doing it is because of the way the connector on the drive is positioned. It's an IBM 4.5gig U2W drive. Trying to mount it normally requires me to twist the cable around into a big mess to connect with my cdrom drive. Mounting it upside down removes this problem. I've had it like this for a few days, and haven't noticed any performance problems.

I know that mounting a hard drive on its side tends to shorten its life, but what effect does it have on the drive if it's mounted upside down?

I picked up the 12.00, and they worked like a charm. I used to have a lockup on the Dragothic test in 3dmark2001, but the 12s fixed it. Seems to run a little faster, and the FSAA controls are a little easier to get to.

If I'm not mistaken, the Windows 2000 FAQ on ntcompatible has the steps for integrating the SP.

I have a Leadtek GeForce2 MX on Win2k, and just recently, whenever I change the screen resolution, the screen is blue when it finishes (not a BSOD, but the screen is dark blue). I can still see the mouse pointer, but nothing else. The only way for me to fix it is to press Ctrl-Esc, up twice, enter, "cmd", enter, then alt-enter to make the command prompt fullscreen, then again to make it normal again. Sometimes that fixes it. I'm not overclocked in any way. I've tried all the available Detonator drivers, and the ones from Leadtek. All with the same results. The screen never turns blue when I go to a fullscreen win2k command prompt, and it sometimes is blue even when I switch back. I looked over my BIOS settings, but nothing seems unusual. Athlon 650 on Abit KA7 512 Megs (maxmem set to 192) Leadtek GeForce 2 MX Sound Blaster Live! (Live!Ware NOT installed) Adaptec 2940 U2W Every device is on it's own IRQ.

Oops, forgot the storage. It's a 3.2 gig IDE and 16x IDE CDROM.

The machine is a K6-2 233 w/ 64 megs SDRAM, an A-Trend 5030 (Intel 430TX chipset, AT/ATX 4 PCI, 3 ISA, PS/2 mouse port, USB (needs bracket), 235W AT PS, 2 DIMM, 4 SIMM slots. Either Sound Blaster 128 PCI, or Ensoniq SoundScape (for DOS support), S3 Virge GX (works in 9x and 3.x). Asking price is $200 + shipping. Great setup for a dedicated DOS machine. I can get an extra 64 meg stick for $25.

If I can do math right still....(After calculus, I vowed to forget it). 40C * 1.8 + 32 = ~104F. Not bad.

It seems I was a little unclear. I am not an OC'er, and all I'm interested in knowing is if the cpu also has to support the 266 bus. But if I'm getting this, the new cpu needs to support it, correct?

If the KT133A boards coming out support the 266MHz bus, does that require a special cpu that uses it, or would any Socket A do the job? Is the 200/266 deal a motherboard-only issue? I'm about to build a system with the KT133A, and I'm unsure if I need a special proc. or not.

Ya know, I'm starting to wonder if the entire 3com line of NICs is under some kind of curse in win2k. I've had three 3com ISA NICs, and two of them have already died for no real reason. They just stop working. Windows sees them fine, but the card doesn't know what to do.

I thought I heard once you can put the FCC ID onto their site, and they'll get you information about it.

Btw, folks, I sold INFERNO2000 that machine The case for that thing's as strudy as an engine block, even if it is 10 years old. It was my understanding that if you install the dhcp service on an NT 4 Server machine, the machine can not use dhcp to get its own IP. So, if you have cable and 2 nics, you'd need to set your ip manually. Is this correct?