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Quick Quiz. How do you change the Image and size of the Start button in Windows 2000/XP? It seems to have slipped my mind.... You now how it is... Too much new important stuff to remember like where is my keys??? What time is Enterprise on next??? And the prize for the best answer........ I will tell everyone who gave me the answer Chernobyl

A Friend of mine has one of those old 6XRead, 2XWrite IDE Creative Writers and needs to get this going in XP. Does anyone know what software he has to use. He had an old copy of Winoncd? Anyone knows what he can do?

Dont know if he has. Will get him to try. Thanks.

They tried both XP's built in burning and Nero but neither Recognise it.

A lot of people are suggesting SBLive but with all the posts about SBLive i was wondering if anyone had tried an MX400?

Lets face it guys. WHO CARES - As long as your game runs fast enough to play and lets face it who needs to run at 80-100FPS then it is pointless. From My experience (Computer Technician/Preload Development and Testing) Win2K IS Far better than WinME. ME has numerous problems with Audio and in general is not too stable. From Experience here with both Workstations/My PC at home, and W2K Servers we have found it to be VERY stable. (I have NOT rebooted my machine in the last 3 weeks and i play UT every night). As long as your hardware is not from the stone age then 2K should not have too much performance problems. The only thing is the need for ram. (I run 256 Anyway but i did run 128) Overall if you dont want to have to reload and repatch/Tweak your OS 2K is better.

Has anyone yet got the hotfix from Microsoft or Knows where it can be downloaded from? (Patch referanced in this http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q260/2/33.asp?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0 Knowledge Base Article)

May have a point on quality but in all reality i think it comes down to what you do. If you are using it for Games mainly then SB is fine and they have REAL W2K Drivers. Santa Cruz - for the price (In Australia at least the Cruz is almost twice the price of the SB Live Digital Out i got) is not that much better in my opinion unless you do a lot of work with music (MP3 Creation Mixing etc). I think either card is fine - My SBLive is also working fine on my KT133Raid running my 650Duron at 950 so as far as overclocking goes i know the SB works fine. (I ran looping demo of utbench with UT set to 1024*768*32bit with all textures set to high and Hardware 3D Accel of Sound and high sound quality with no lock ups for 18.5 Hours. Quote: Originally posted by Wolf87: I have been using the Santa Cruz for three days and the Windows 2000 Beta drivers are superb. Midi and Mp3 sound better than SB Live. Directsound implementation is good. 3D sound with headphones is superior. Eax 1 and 2 are ok and solid but there seems to be a memory leak in Aureal 1 driver within the game Freespace 2. The Santa Cruz performs better than SB Live.

I tested out a SoundBlaster Live with Digital Out on Friday last week and have found none of the problems others have mentioned. and there were REAL drivers for it. Quote: Originally posted by SmallPileofGibs: I'm considering the santa cruz.. but the only win2k drivers available are 'beta'... and I haven't seen any reports of how well they work...

Hibernate is not really a PowerSave state. It is simply a shutdown state saving memory status so when it boots it just replaces that memory state (Which is why it is so quick) that is why none of the other re-activation keys work. (Unless they are to power on - Keyboard etc). I have a KT7-Raid and hibernate works fine BTW Quote: Originally posted by MoreLight: I have a Win2000 server with an Asus board (P3B-f with latest bios and ACPI and wake on Lan enabled) and just tried out standby last night. It worked fine, but in order to get back in the computer I had to press the power button once, then enter the password for the last user logged on the system. Moving the mouse, hitting enter, spacebar,esc and all the other "normal" re-activation keys didn't help. I just activated hibernation on the thing and will report back shortly on how that worked. I've wanted to try out hibernation and this is a good excuse to do that

Quote: Originally posted by Fuschermen: hi can anyone tell me if there are probs by using this board with a vortex 2 ??? THX

I think it is just the combo i have Kt7-raid and Vortex 2 (MX300) and i get the sound card just NOT working. From other posts i have seen people are still investigating. Maybee keep and eye out for Vortex 2 threads as well cause as soon as somebody figues out the Vortex 2 it MIGHT fix yours as well. Quote: Originally posted by tourettes: Anyone have had luck with these two? I have instant lock-up when I try to play sound.

I have a New Abit KT7-Raid with 2 15GB ATA5 IBM Hard Drives GeForce DDR 256M Kingmax PC133 Ram Duron 650 at 990 and Yes i have the same sort of Problems. Sound might work for a couple of minutes AFTER a boot but then it is like the MX300 goes to disneyland for the remainder of uptime. I recently upgraded from P3450@600 on Asus P3V4X and as far as i remember my sound worked fine on that so what chipset do you run? (Mine is KT133, Asus one was VIA133A (694X) Quote: Originally posted by SmallPileofGibs: Thanks =). OK.. I'm starting to think it's a problem with my VIA chipset motherboard... Does anyone have a VIA board and a working vortex2 in win2k?