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SB Audigy does not record at 24-bit/96kHz DAC and does not provide Dolby Digital encoding. Get digital audio tips here: http://www.audioforums.com/

Probably due to dot.com recession, many technical sound sites have either closed or are not updated. 3D Audio Immersion links to OC Addiction's review of Philips's card: http://www.3dai.net/ SB Audigy information: http://alive.singnet.com.sg/ A recent review of TB Santa Cruz: http://grassomusic.de/english/index.htm http://www.3dsoundsurge.com/ http://www.soundcardcentral.com/reviews.shtml Soundfonts resources: http://thesoundsite.ismi.net/

PC Sound Card Technical Benchmarks: http://www.pcavtech.com/soundcards/

Kenwood 72X lasted for about 14 months of very heavy use. It cannot deal with inferior or slightly scratched disks. Even after applying the patch the Kenwood multibeam has trouble reading CD-RW discs. Brand names 52X CD-ROMs all have multiread capibility: Asus, Sony. Their price and quality are also just right.

Find the Windows 2000 Error Messages List here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en/default.asp Kernel Executive Stop Error Message number 36 is the following: STOP: 0x00000036 (parameter, parameter, parameter, parameter) DEVICE_REFERENCE_COUNT_NOT_ZERO Explanation: This is a Windows 2000 Executive character-mode STOP message. It indicates an attempt was made to delete a device object whose reference count was non-zero. A non-zero reference count means that there are still outstanding references to the device. There might be a problem in calling the device driver.

Your USB mouse should also work in real mode Dos. The full PS/2 set of commands is transmitted to the mouse through Bios USB Legacy Mode.

IDE RAID Without Additional Hardware: Do It Yourself With Windows 2000: http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/01q3/010906/index.html

Go to the Microsoft sites: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ . Select IE6, and download to receive the setup management tool (468K). Run the setup manager and accept the download agreement. After the report "initializing setup..." choose option "Install Minimal or Customize Your Browser." because it includes the option to "download and install later." Click Next. At the first "Options" screen ("Component Options"), click the "Advanced" button and then select "download only." Click Next. At the next "Options" screen, make the appropriate choices for download type and destination. After download has completed, run the newly-downloaded separate Setup tool in whatever the download directory you specified. You can re-run that Setup as often as you wish without a new download of all those files.

240 MB pagefile is optimum with RAM at 512 MB.

Ata 100 was made possible through Service Pack 2. Benchmark with HD Tach: http://www.tweakfiles.com/drives/hdtach.html

Visit the Guru of 3D for Nvidia drivers: http://www.guru3d.com/guide/detonator-explanation/ Hercules 3D Tweaker 2.2 is a nice overclocking tool: ftp://ftp.hercules.com/video/exe/NVIDIABASED/P3DTWK-9X2K-22.exe

An ASPI layer being a universal set of commands foregoes the need of directly controlling CD functions. Appearance of Atapi devices made this inevitable. Aspi is an integral part of DVD. Windows 2000 by default comes with a incomplete ASPI set (two files out of four) due to a Microsoft disagreement with Adaptec. Adaptec retaliates through totally false declarations that an ASPI layer cannot be installed safely on Windows 2000. All Microsoft Windows products considers CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD drives as SCSI devices. To transfer command to those SCSI devices a set of command similar to SCSI has to be used. Three such sets were developed and the latest one being by Adaptec became an industry standard. The first two were more complete and efficient one was offered as proprietary the other as freeware. Adaptec developed ASPI (Adaptec SCSI Proprietary Interface) with much the poorest set of commands. To force this set as a standard they bought out the company that developed the efficient freeware one to and removed it from the market. There followed their numerous Court fights against burning sofware houses forcing them to develop their own solutions (Ahead's Nero, Blindwrite).

Maybe both AMD and Via (4in1) drivers could be updated since this problem with MW4 first does not seem to be hardware related and second graphic and sound drivers are OK. Those AMD AGP patches and the Via drivers directly impact the correct functioning of processor registers. Get the recent Beta patch that updates the game to Version 2.0: http://anonymous:150b3c06263d173d3c0535@...s/mw4p2beta.zip

This link offers the best chance to find a substitute driver: http://www.driver-forum.com/

First right click My Computer, Manage, System Information, Hardware Resources, conflicts/sharing and check if there is an IRQ conflict either for graphics card driver or for Sound card driver. When messages about Access, sometimes IRQ, sometimes KMode occur a bit randomly then Ram stick problems are most probably involved. Cut power and see what happens after switching a ram stick. For example plug Rem sticks in Motherboard slot 1 and 3 instead of 1 and 2. Then remove one Ram stick at a time and see if anything improves. Ram may also be defective.

Get RegCleaner 4.3 here: http://www.jv16.org/

Of course the Nero version is not a general Aspi manager (they were sued by Adaptec and devised their own proprietary version). It will furnish sufficient Aspi services for some programs if you copy it to their working folder like in GoldenHawk's CDRWin. It will not work for DVD, DivX, for those use ForceAspi which includes extra options.

Here is the Registry hack. Copy the following lines to a file named udma66on.reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0000] "EnableUDMA66"=dword:00000001 Double click the file to merge in Registry. Apply both to 0000 (and 0001, or 0002, or 0003...) or whatever the Registry lines holding the Controller driver and the Primary or Secondary Ide tied to the disk. If the controller driver is elsewhere in Registry or registered as SCSI as happens even for some Ide controller, the Registry hack will have no effect. Check the WD site for mini-programs activating Ata-66 and removing the write verifying on the hard disk then activate UDMA 4 in Bios, in Device Manager.

The Paging file may be too small. Ram may be overclocked. Those screen messages refer to memory problems, not to EAX for SBLive. Install Direct X 8.1 latest release (Build 682). Update Motherboard Bios and change graphics driver.

The Lite-On is the same as a Sanyo drive and a very good choice. LG is rather dubious. Sony drives are great.

No. The game patch did not solve this.

According to Microsoft because there are no drivers for HPT with Abit BE6, it is best that UDMA-66 be disabled on Windows 2000. http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/...amp;SPR=WIN2000

Check if DMA is on in Device Manager, Ide Atapi, Primary or Secondary Atapi Device, Advanced Tab. Sony support suggests to put in a DVD, go to Start, Run, DVDPlay, then stop DVDopen and close DVD door to reinitialize the DVD drive. Those problems may be caused by Windows Media Player or a number of CD-RW burning programs & sound card drivers. Adaptec Aspi layer is also not complete by default on Windows 2000 but Force Aspi will solve this. Library default time-out and inventory methods can be modified through Right Click on My Computer, Manage, Storage, Removable Storage, Physical Locations, Right Click Sony DVD, Properties. General and Components Tabs. See previous postings about CD, CD-RW and DVD disappearances in Device Manager for some Regitry tips.

Clearly the only solution is to reactivate the standard associations found in the Windows 2000 Registry. They are all included in the following lines. They normally link CD and DVD file system drivers and the CD and DVD hardware drives. Please copy these lines to a Notepad file; name it CD_install.reg. Then make a complete back up of your registry. Double click or right click on CD_install.reg and Merge in Registry. Reboot and check DVD. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}] "Class"="CDROM" @="DVD/CD-ROM drives" "EnumPropPages32"="MmSys.Cpl,MediaPropPageProvider" "Installer32"="storprop.dll,DvdClassInstaller" "SilentInstall"="1" "NoInstallClass"="1" "TroubleShooter-0"="tshoot.chm,hdw_drives.htm" "Icon"="-51" "LowerFilters"=hex(7):63,00,64,00,72,00,34,00,5f,00,32,00,4b,00,00,00,00,00 "UpperFilters"=hex(7):70,00,77,00,64,00,5f,00,32,00,4b,00,00,00,00,00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0000] "DefaultDvdRegion"=dword:00000001 "EnumPropPages32"="storprop.dll,DvdPropPageProvider" "InfPath"="cdrom.inf" "InfSection"="cdrom_install" "ProviderName"="Microsoft" "DriverDateData"=hex:00,40,99,31,33,2e,bf,01 "DriverDate"="11-14-1999" "DriverVersion"="5.0.2183.1" "MatchingDeviceId"="gencdrom" "DriverDesc"="CD-ROM Drive" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0001] "DefaultDvdRegion"=dword:00000001 "EnumPropPages32"="storprop.dll,DvdPropPageProvider" "InfPath"="cdrom.inf" "InfSection"="cdrom_install" "ProviderName"="Microsoft" "DriverDateData"=hex:00,40,99,31,33,2e,bf,01 "DriverDate"="11-14-1999" "DriverVersion"="5.0.2183.1" "MatchingDeviceId"="gencdrom" "DriverDesc"="CD-ROM Drive" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0002] "DefaultDvdRegion"=dword:00000001 "EnumPropPages32"="storprop.dll,DvdPropPageProvider" "InfPath"="cdrom.inf" "InfSection"="cdrom_install" "ProviderName"="Microsoft" "DriverDateData"=hex:00,40,99,31,33,2e,bf,01 "DriverDate"="11-14-1999" "DriverVersion"="5.0.2183.1" "MatchingDeviceId"="gencdrom" "DriverDesc"="CD-ROM Drive"

That means the DVD drivers are available on hard disk but something interferes and prevents activation. Check this note about complete removal of ECDC Registry entries on a Windows 2000 system: http://205.162.50.212/tips/cdr_and_win2k.shtml Reinstallation of Aspi drivers is a safe move: http://www.cyrus.troy.btinternet.co.uk/downloads.htm