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Thats right. You can stripe in win 2k pro, you just can't do fault tolerant with it. Only server can do that. In addition to upgrading your disks to dynamic, you also have to have unallocated space on more than one disk. Then select the unallocated space, create volume, select either normal, spanned, or striped disk. Then add the other unallocated space from other drive(s), give the drive a letter or make it a mount point, format and you're done. I know this works, because I just did it to 3 drives on my win2k pro machine about an hour ago. Whoever told you there was a reg hack to do that was smoking crack at the time.

Start by installing Apple Talk protocol.

Looking to upgrade my SB PCI 128. Don't want to buy that damn Live Crap. Email me if you guys want to get rid of your Aureal board. OEM or Retail is fine either way as long as their not DOA

Sorry Michael. I have access to other Aureal and Aureal II based cards and SBLiv's, but its the original Aureal 2500 hardware I've decided to go with. Unless that new Turtle Beach card proves it can work well in 2000. Thanks for your post.

ROFL You had been asking some reasonably intelligent questions recently, and people had been trying to answer them. Now it looks like you just went and had a major brain fart over there. Lost another one to the mundane world of Win9X. You win some, you lose some. PS: You can't hide [censored] or anything else from someone who knows how to look for it smart guy, even in NTFS. Not unless you know how to encrypt it, and you just lost that ability by moving to Win9X. Better be careful out there.

That's twice today. I must be getting senile. The part about the hardware profile for the NIC is supposed to be "disabled" not enabled.

Ton there's another way, but your roomie isn't going to like it. First you have to be the primary computer on the network, and it sounds like you are. If you can't throttle the bandwidth on his NIC, you're going to have to play a little dirty pool. Sounds like you might not mind that anyways, as he is sucking your bandwidth dry and may not care. You are the server, and since you haven't mentioned an external router, you are the router and the DHCP server also. Simply exclude his IP address from the DHCP scope or block his IP address from accessing the router whenever you need to shut down the Napster stuff. Or change his hardware profile to have the NIC enabled and put the profile selection time on bootup to zero seconds. Change his user.dat file to user.man and he won't be able to make any changes to his profile. Get him a modem for his computer and set him up with a free (really) internet account with http://www.seniorsinfree.com Use a proxy server like Winproxy and disable the ports that he uses to access Napster or any high bandwidth ports like FTP. Put a 10 meg pos NIC in his computer when he's out and set it to half/duplex. Change his protocols so you disable TCP/IP and only enable NetBios, so he can communicate with the workgroup, but can't access the outside world because that protocol is not routable. That should give you a few ideas to work with I guess. 8)

What about some kind of network monitoring program? Maybe there is one that will allow you to allocate network bandwidth on individual network adapters. Sort of load balancing to keep the network stable.

Ok now you can flame me. I meant to say try "fixmbr" first. I hate when that happens 8)

JediBaron was right. That was a really bad idea using that Piece of Sh*t utility. All it does is mess up the boot sectors. Partition Magic is for FAT drives barely gets the job done there. It doesn't handle NTFS worth a damn. (don't flame me on this, i've seen a few servers messed up from people trying it..) Win2k disk management is what you needed to convert the drive to a dynamic disk and then convert the unallocated space into another volume. You probably won't have been able to "extend" the other 13 gigs because you started with a "basic" disk. fixmbr: repairs the master boot record of the partition boot sector. fixboot: writes a new partition boot sector onto the "system" partition. I haven't had to use these utilities, but I would back up any critical data, then try "fixboot" first. If you have an ERD disc, I would consider trying that method as well, but I'm not sure which is the best approach. I haven't fubared my drive yet.

I installed all the critical updates without any positive results. You say they did the trick for you. Could you be more specific? Is the game running in Windows 2000 on your computer? What if any were the exact steps you took to get it running? JD don't make me beg.

Captain, I would love to help you out on this one. There is nothing I like better than chasing down obscure drivers for obscure hardware I've been pounding search engines and my entire stash of links to hardware sites (there are several hundred) to no avail. The name "connectix" does not appear to be connected to any type of modem chipset whatsoever. You didn't say if the modem is a chipset on the m/b or a physical card modem. Did you build this computer or is it a pre-built. If pre-built the company who made it must have a website with a support section for drivers. If they do, download the NT drivers. Quite often they will work in 2000. Look very carefully at the chipset on the modem. Dollar whores to doughnuts the actual guts were made by somebody other than connectix. Take the modem chipset number and do a search on that. Find the most recent types of modems using that chipset and use their NT or 2000 .inf's until you get one that works. If that strategy doesn't help, try manually installing generic modems in the add modem area. You might get lucky. You have to look at device manager or some util to see what IRQ and com port the thing is sitting on. Final solution if nothing else works, is to blow $50 on a internal 56K V.90 USR that works straight out of the box. BTW - what exactly is "revence"? A close cousin to "revenge"? Good Luck. I prefer mine quite hot and messy. ;(

Yep another game that runs in Win2k. But save your money and don't bother. This is one dated mother of a game. Crappy camera angle, blocky pixellated graphics and just a pig on computer resources at its highest resolution of 1024x768. The only people who should play this game are dedicated console gamers who just have to play the port on their pc. This game was released two years ago, and was critically accalaimed at that time for its gameplay and graphics. From what I can see of both, our PC games two years ago were already generations ahead of this game in EVERY aspect including graphics, game play and replay value. There is no way that consoles can ever replace the pc for state of the art gaming. Not a chance. Not ever.

I got the ERD sequence wrong, but will fix it now. You can't boot a computer with the ERD floppy. You will need the 2000 Setup disks or the 2000 CD for that. When or if you use another 2000 computer to create an ERD, don't elect to backup the registry, because your comp will have a different one. After you have a basic ERD, start your comp using 2000 Setup Disks, or 2000 CD. Choose the option to install the OS. When given the option to install fresh or repair, press "R" to repair. The fast repair option will require no interaction from you and will attempt to repair problems related to registry, system files, partition boot sector and your problem which is the startup environment (dual or multiple boot configs). Just let it do its thing. Insert the ERD when it asks. If everything goes well, the computer will restart, and you will see your dual boot OS selection again. If it doesn't work the first time, just try it again to be persistent. If that doesn't work, you will have to do a fresh install of Win2000, but at least you tried. Sorry for the original dis-information. I did some reading to clarify the process.

You're absolutely right. I just checked my 2000 Pro CD. It's not there. My apologies. It is on the server cd, and you can install it to your 2000 Pro installation though.

As long as you have already joined (and have accounts) on those domains with your computer, when you log on to it using |ctrl alt del | at the log on screen, there should be a drop down list of the domains you can log on to . It should also display the last user name and domain that was accessed, and you will need to type in your password for the last one. If you select the other domain or local computer at log on, then you also have to type your user name and pass. Novell has done this so much better, by giving a drop down list of all the context's you have logged into and what user name you used. MS stole Active Dir from them, they should have taken more of it while they were at it.

Your boot loader was on the C: partition. You hosed it when you formatted. You're going to have to get to a win2K machine and make an ERD (emergency repair disk) programs |accessories | system tools | backup then boot your machine with the ERD, and try to repair the boot loader. it may take several tries and booting with your win2000 cd to a certain point in order to access files to write on the hard drive during the repair process. Good Luck

Good on ya for saying that. We've been trying to tell all the newbies for months that Win2000 plays games and plays them well.

Its probably the ATA-66 controller causing the problem. Windows sees this thing as a SCSI device that isn't working. Plug your C: drive into your onboard ide , go into the bios and make sure its registered as the primary master. Then you should be able to install win, configure your ATA66, and then use the ATA66 interface to control your hard drive(s). You can also try setting the bios to boot from CD, but if Win setup doesnt' see a hard drive, then where is it going to install to ?

Toby I salute you as well. That was a damn fine save. Hope that smilie works finally.

Damn stupid double posts.....Sorry :0

Well we are trying to help. Just have to nail it down a little more. You didn't say if you are on a network when trying to use Nero. Even if you are say logged onto your domain as admin, if you are not a member of the local computers administrators group, you will not be able to fully use any program that access's and modifies system hardware and properties. I found that one out the hard way. Is there any chance you can borrow another scsi card - say Adaptec 2930 - and swap that with your Tekram. If everything works with the Adaptec, then the problem is the Tekram. Or conversely, completely remove Nero, and use another program like Adaptec, or CDRWin to verify that your scsi card and burner are properly working with your burning software. Just a thought to try and narrow down the problem area's which may be three things right now, down to hopefully one problem to resolve. Good Luck.

Well we are trying to help. Just have to nail it down a little more. You didn't say if you are on a network when trying to use Nero. Even if you are say logged onto your domain as admin, if you are not a member of the local computers administrators group, you will not be able to fully use any program that access's and modifies system hardware and properties. I found that one out the hard way. Is there any chance you can borrow another scsi card - say Adaptec 2930 - and swap that with your Tekram. If everything works with the Adaptec, then the problem is the Tekram.

Don't be cheap when you buy a drive. You always get what you pay for. Seeing as we're not talking about burners the choices are relatively easy. CD-ROM. For FULL compat with any CDFS in the damn world except DVD, wicked transfer rates, unparalled audio extraction and almost non-existent load on your cpu the only choice is a Plextor. They can be had pretty cheap these days also. For pretty much the best DVD drive out there which is also compat with all file formats and has excellent transfer rates (lacking somewhat in audio extraction), but plays DVD superb and is natively supported in Win2000, go with the Pioneer 115. I bought one of those from Onvia.ca for $155CDN, so you can probably find one in US for $100 or less. Forget that TrueX crap and any other IDE CD-ROM out there either. My Plextor 12-20 drive still smokes any IDE drive I've used.

I saw your post today and did some messing with a PIII550 slot one in the P3B-F. The highest bus speed it would post at was 124 with VCore set to 2.5 = 682Mhz. It wouldn't load the Kernel for Advanced Server. The fastest it would boot and run Server at was 120 with VCore at 2.2 = 660MHz. Ran stable at that speed, played MP3's no problem and Motherboard Monitor reported cpu temp about 24degC. However, as soon as I started playing any game using D3D, it immediately did a core memory dump and required a shut down. If the OS had been Win98, it probably would have been fine. I think you should be able to get over 600Mhz with your 500, but if you plan on running it in any Win2000 OS, you are going to have problems there.