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I had the same lines in Divx and MPEG2. Also had rainbow colors in MOHAA. Went back to 41.09

I have the Promise Fast TraK. WOrks FinE.

Yes you cannot restore a backup from the drive you are restoring to. Ghost 2003 now uses it's own boot area instead of having to make a floppy, it's really nice. It sees FAT(s) or NTFS just fine, even on raid arrays!

I remember being on the BBSs and some of them would have text internet and Gopher. This was back in 1990, or earlier, i think. I was on AOL since 1.0 (still have the floppy disk today)connecting @ 2400bps. Most web pages took like a day to load and were virtually all text. AOL still sucked back then!

I didn't realize Packard Bell was even still around to make computers!!!

Do you happen to know what changes have been made since the 41.09 dets?

Here is my deal. I currently have the following computer. MSI KT333 Ultra2 ARU IDE RAID XP 2200+ 512MB DDR 2700 GeForce 4 TI 4200 Turbo SB Live! 5.1 Intel 10/100/1000 Nic MSI TV Tuner/Capture Card 400Watt PS 48X Burner 52X CDROM 16X DVD ROM 2 X 60GB WD 7200RPM 8MB Cache Drives on RAID (striping) 13GB Maxtor 7200RPM 2MB Cache Drive I currently have the 2 60GB drives setup on RAID as one big logical 120GB drive, windows is on a 20GB partition, all my bigger programs and games are on the remaining 100GB partition. All the 13GB has on it is the windows swap file (1GB). I was wondering if my system would be faster to NOT run raid. Let's say I put Windows on one of the 60GB Drives, then my larger proggies and games on the other 60GB drive and finally the 13GB for the swap again. Would that make things faster or is RAID still faster even with having to access mutiple paritions over 2 drive + the swap? What is the optimum setup with what I have? I also use this computer to edit and render digital video using Adobe Premiere 6.5 if that helps any.

I have seen this before on a home network running the same NIC, WAP and OS. The adapter would essential just lose signal all together and have to be manually reconnected after a while. We are still trying to figure out why and have since switched brands to Netgear with no problems.

What watt power supply is that machine using?

I have had CDRW and CDROM on the same channel and had no problems as well. However with this particular CDRW i have noticed more errors and a few coasters. Once separated they seem to work fine. I can do On the Fly copying with it on the second channel so no problems there either. I am already looking into getting 10K RPM drives to replace the ones on my array. This would take away the worry about swap file as data would come much faster.

It's been awhile since we asked what you prefer. Windows XP SP1 or Windows 2000 SP3? Please don't say .NET, it's still in testing stages. Windows XP SP1 gets my vote. I am pleased with it's speed, after turning all the bloat off and killing a few unneeded services. Is System Restore really worth keeping on? It also has less to go through than 2K in Windows Updates after initial install. Windows XP Pro

I too was tired of a loud pc so I mounted an 80mm on top of my OCZ all copper heat sink. System stays around 100F. The important thing is that the system is super quiet now.

Raining here in good ole Phoenix, AZ. Was in 70s last week.

Just upgraded... from Windows XP Pro SP1 with DX 9 to Windows 2000 SP3 with DX 8.1. Not realling liking XP as much as 2K, after running XP for almost 2 years now I decided to ditch the bloated b*tch. My question is should I up my install to DirectX 9?

Not that i know of?

My mind was just changed after F&CKING XP decided to drop the file system off of my BACKUP DRIVE. I cannot get my info back, it says my drive is in RAW format! All the sudden things turned to sh#t, I am now spending my day reformatting and loading 2K back on my machine!

I tried to run shutdown.exe and nothing happens.

Why is a person using a computer they cannot even restart! That's scary!

I have had my system setup on just that same config. you mentioned. BUT when would burn CDs or do disc to disc I would sometimes get errors and coasters. Once I move my config. to the current setup I have burned over 50 discs with no coaster! My system is now solid as granite, I just want to totally optimize it without suffering errors. So you think it would be overall better to just leave the pagefile on one of the RAID partitions? Thanks for your suggestions.

Here is how it is setup up: On Channel one is CDRW as master. On channel two is 13GB pagefile drive as master and 52X CDROM as slave. Then on the promise controller are the two RAID drives. Each Raid drive has its own cable and is by itself. How much is that rocket drive?

That's a mouthful . I think I will just leave the pagefile on the extra non-RAID drive. I would love to have that RAM drive setup you've got though.

I don't think that MS will ever perfect anything but making money. With new hardware, software and innovations coming out every day. More and more and more code inputted by humans, making human mistakes (bugs).

Well my swap drvie is way slower than the RAID. The RAID drives register higher than a 15K RPM Ultra SCSI 160GB Drive. I really have no way to test the RAID drives individually without trashing my install of windows. I need to do some serious testing, just hoping to save some time. Should I move my swap file to the RAID array?

I would say that your ram is the bottleneck, PC-133. You should really go DDR if you have the means and money.

I have Office XP now and can't seem to locate the option. I will look for you on my friend's computer.