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SP1 will be available for any Windows version running IE6. As for Windows Media Player for XP, it really doesn't add much to what is available in WMP 7.1. It just takes advantage of some of the features in XP. Had they made a version for the other Windows OSes, it would have just been 7.1 anyway.

Yep. USB 2 is backwards compatible with USB 1.1.

I prefer the Microsoft Intellimouse Optical. I hated the original Explorer, but the new 3.0 version is very nice. They've moved the side buttons so they don't constantly get pressed during normal use.

Install it. It fixes several problems. You'll see a noticable speed increase if you are running it under Windows XP.

It sounds like the hard drive controller on your motherboard is going out. Can you try the drives in a different computer to see if they are accessible?

Have them load the Command Prompt and run whoami.

Sounds like a conflict with the NIC. Try moving it to another PCI slot.

They are planning on a new release this Spring. Sometime in April.

www.microsoft.com/hcl I didn't see the specific modem, but I may have overlooked it.

Quote: Why wasn't Win2K called Windows NT Version 5? Well, fact is that a company called Northern Telecom (now Nortel Communictaions) owned the trademark "NT" for use on computer and communications equipment (it's even their stock symbol). They licensed it to MS for a while. Might have gotten fairly confusing, too, since it seems they were using NT4 as the core for some of their phone products, so you had an NT (Northern Telecom) switch running NT (the operating system)... Anyway, one story is that they eventually decided to either not renew the name license to MS at all or to charge too much, so MS said "fine, we'll call our OS something else." Another is that "it was a marketing decision". I'm not sure whom to believe. But wouldn't that mean the tagline "Built on NT technology" would mean Northern Telecom technology?

I have a feeling the problem was not that the battery was dead but that it was somehow causing a short in the board. Possibly just removing the battery and re-seating it would have solved the problem, as well. Check to be sure that there are no stary metal pieces on, or near, the battery connection. Many of the new motherboards use a BIOS chip that has a built-in ten year battery. It's actually a type of capacitor instead of a real battery. This is why you often don't see one, anymore. The problem with this is some of them also do not include a battery riser to connect an external battery when the integrated one dies.

If you're looking for a tried-and-true video card then the RADEON 7500 is great. I haven't run into any problems with it. And the drivers perform well. You won't get the speed of the 8500, or the DirectX 8.1 support, but for an overall card it's a good buy. I wish they had come out with the 7500DV earlier. I'd have picked one up. But I'm not about to change out a card that isn't even a year old just to have the TV turner functionality.

Apparently, the newest drivers fix the problems it had. I know it caused all kinds of grief in Flight Simulator 2002 which were fixed.

Nope, won't work. In fact, I doubt the NTFS-DOS utility would allow this to work. The system would never be able to boot in order to load the utility to let Win98 run on NTFS. I think this guy was dropped on his head a few too many times as an infant.

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Did you install the PCI card without the AGP? Both Windows 2000 and XP requires that you install the PCI and onboard first. Try removing the AGP adapter and booting without it. Then reinstall it and see what happens.

Yep. I've been hitting their site hoping to see a new update. One of the limitations seems to be that it doesn't fully support DirectX 8, either. So DirectPlay does not consistently work. But, the wife is happy. She can now use the webcam through Messenger while talking to her family.

I'd suggest grabbing a workstation to run your NAV off of. You can run it off of a Pentium II 333MHz without any problems and it will take that much more off of your servers.

I've always found Tyan motherboards to perform slow. Especially their low-end server boards. The SCSI controller is either flakey or they didn't incorporate it correctly. Just my experience. I do suggest trying EPox out if you get the opportunity.

I haven't figured out a way around this one, either. However, you don't need VDMSound. Windows XP provides sound for it very well. I can get through the intro movie, but then it crashes with the memory error. And since I'm using NTFS I can't use a DOS boot disk. I haven't played around with it for a while. I may take another crack at it when I get a chance.

So far, the only motherboard manufacturer that I am actually happy with is EPoX. The Abit system I put together had some kind of an IDE issue and I had to put the hard drive as Single for it to work. I can't stand Tyan. I've never found a board of their's that works like it should. ASUS is good if you wait a year after they release the board. Intel's boards are over-priced. SuperMicro makes a good dual-processor board, but that's about it. Most of the others out there I won't even consider.

So far, so good. I've been able to get Diablo II and all of the MSN functions including video and remote assistance to work through it. I wasn't able to get AOE II to connect to a game over the Internet with both computers like I was Diablo II, though. I'll have to poke around and find out what the problem is.

Funny, wasn't part of the agreement that allowed AOL to purchase Time/Warner that they would open up their IM? Why aren't the states running in threatening to break up AOL, now?

www.mwave.com has an excellent selection and tends to beat just about everyone on prices. Especially on video cards and processors. I don't like their return policy, but that is my only real complaint. Their tech support is very good. The shipping can be a bit high for me since they are in California and I'm in Georgia. I been looking at www.directron.com lately. I haven't ordered anything from them yet. They tend to carry OEM instead of retail components. Their prices are normally a little higher than Multiwave, but the shipping is less since they are in New York.

Yep, Cynan, you're right. I'll blame it on a brain fart and leave it at that. Must have been because of a discussion I had recently about OS/2 Warp with someone at work.