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Brainsoft first of all check your CP as i replied to you about DiVX problem you have. There's no need to start a war about the locked post.If the admins of the site found it that it should be locked, then they have the right to do so even if it sounds unreasonable.They build the rules and they will be in trouble if some MS guy checks out the forum and realises that there is a violation in the copyright laws, not you. What i'm trying to say is that there's no point to continue this argument-it won't lead anywhere.Realise that there's nothing personal with you or with any other member of this forum. Take care.

Now things are getting clearer.If you used win2k drivers for your SCSI card or for any other hardware you might be experiencing incompatibility problems that result the BSOD.Win2k and WinXP are built on the same NT kernel but they are quite different.I've seen a lot of hardware that don't work properly on winXP with the drivers of win2k.Download all the XP drivers for your hardware, by going to the manufacturer.You wouldn't have any problem finding it, since your hardware is new and the manuf. are big names. And i do mean every driver, including your sound blaster ones.I am not saying that the SCSI fails for a 100%, it might be some other device.That's why you should try upgrading to XP drivers first to eliminate the chances of incompatibility. GL

Unless you've tried that before, i think that reinstalling the OS will not make any difference at all to your problem. It sounds more like a SCSI problem rather than the XP capability to recognise the bestseller of Plextor. Try to update your SCSI drivers and see what happens.Otherwise try to uninstall the CD from the device manager, reboot and see what happens again.

Go to display properties. On screen saver tab, go to power options properties. On power options properties, go to APM and tick enable APM support.

The fact that XP is booting from the slave has nothing to do with your problem.Even if your hardware is XP compatible it sounds more likely that it IS a hardware error. Try to locate it by disabling when using XP the SCSI adapter which sometimes is a real *****. The only think that can be related to the HD is a faulty cable, which i strongly doubt.If you want to be sure about that as well, then set the WinXP HDD to master, disconnect the other win98 HDD and try it this way.Maybe it's a wrong jumper setting you're doing as well. When you get BSOD with IRQ_LESS_OR_EQUAL, a lot of things might be going wrong.You're going to have to do a lot of testing and a lot of different configs in order to find out.

You'll have to install drivers for your voodoo.WinXP drivers are minimum and they don't support glide, opengl and obviously 3dfx tools.Go to: http://go.to/cairey Download the drivers that this dude modified.They're working fine for me and i get to have the tools and TV out support(haven't tested the TV out but it's there on the advanced display properties so i assume it should be working).

I'm not sure what you mean exactly, but i am guessing that your are accesing your file using MyComputer.If so, press on the icon "folders" to get rid of the web view on the left hand side of the explorer. Then previewing will not work, so once you click the item you can do whatever you want with it. I've got loads of divx files and none is giving me trouble, unless the web view is on. Try that and let me know(if i am right about your problem)

Hi everyone. I was trying both programs on win2k and now on winXP and came to some conclusions. As always speed disk takes ages to complete, while diskeeper only a few minutes. Speed disk optimises the virtual memory by putting it in the beggining of the drive, while DK doesn't. My questions are: - Does it worth it to have swap file in the beggining of the disk? (does it make any difference?). - If the above answer is yes, then should i use speed disk for that purpose and DK for main defragging?(That is run speed disk every once and a while and use DK). It's quite funny that on my laptop (running win98 se) after i defragged the drive using speed disk, i run DK analysis and it displayed a massive 25% of fragmented files, while speed disk was reporting none! I know the differences between FAT32 and NTFS, but i've heared that it's good to defrag your NTFS every now and then, even if it's not as critical as running a FAT32 system. Awaiting comments and suggestions. Thanks for your interest reading this.

http://www.pbbg09989.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.html Try this one.For most of the people works just fine.Another alternative is: http://www.voodoofiles.com/4979 which is a driver modified by Hoe(that's the one i'm using and i am quite happy with it). GL

I have a cable modem that connects me to the internet. I am planing to buy a hub in order to connect 3 computers together and share the internet connection.I know that an easy way was to create a network with BNC cables, but two of the computers are laptops and their PCMCIA cards take only UTP cables. So i planned the network as follows: One computer (preferably the desktop) will be connected to the cable modem (and hence the internet) with the USB interface of the modem. This computer will have the IP address that the provider is giving me plus the gateway address of the provider as well. This computer will connect to the main socket of the hub and the other two computers will connect to the available ports on the hub. Now there is the tricky part where i am not sure.I'm thinking to configure the other two machines addresses as follows: both will have automatic IP assigned to them (dynamic) and they will have as default gateway the IP of the first machine(that's the desktop machine connected to the cable modem with the provider's IP). Do you think that my design will work?Any better and easier suggestions? Thanks for your time reading this.

Hi to all voodoo supporters.I am sorry i am bringing up this subject again but i am sure that there are a lot of people out there that would like their Voodoo cards to work under WinXP. Anyways, let's get to the point.I don't know if you are aware that microsoft has published an update for voodoo 3 cards (can be downloaded from win update IF you have the original voodoo drivers installed). These drivers are minimal, in a sence that there is no Glide support and there are problems when using OpenGL for rendering. I have tried G.O.D. drivers from http://www.3dfx4xp.cjb.net/ While they seem to work fine on the games, i have a couple of "stupid" problems on windows environment. 1) After playing a game using glide, returning to windows makes the screen f*** up.There are colours everywhere, it's like acid or chlorine has fallen into a freshly painted drawing!Before you ask, i can't do anything about it and the simpler thing to do is reboot. I've noticed exactly the same problem 2 years ago, when i started using Win2K, and i donwloaded the first WHQL drivers from 3dfx's website.On the second release of the drivers, this problem dissapeared and smile came back to my face. 2) When trying to play certain macromedia shockwave clips, i get a blue screen, which gives all the blame to 3dfxvs.dll. There comes the question: Microsoft has it's own 3dfxvs.dll(direct3D lib i suppose) and 3dfxvsm.sys in it's driver package i was saying in the beggining. These are both certified, and they work with no questions asked on winXP. So is there a way to blend the two drivers together (WinXP original and G.O.D.) in order to get a healthy one, that it's going to be using the main direct3D library from the microsoft's package and the glide and opengl from the G.O.D. package? Any ideas how to do that?Or do you think that it's not a good idea at all? Any suggestions or replies with similar problems will be much appreciated.I am using a PIII@500 on a QDI Brilliant I m/board with Voodoo 3 3000 AGP. Thanks for the attention, take care, have a nice weekend and... don't ever forget to always breath in and breath out!

Nero is fine for me.The point is that it's quite hard for begginers.It has way too many options and difficult interface for someone that has no experience in burning CDs. What i am missing from WinXP is WinOnCD which was the best for me.Unfortunatelly Roxio is not planning to support it anymore, and since it doesn't work on XP it's dead for me. Easy CD sucks and i bet even the platinum edition sucks.Anybody tried it?

Busby, first of all for your information DivX IS MPEG-4.the extention .avi is used for other copyright reasons and nothing else. you can actually check any DiVX related website in order to see what i am talking about. Second and most important, MPEG means that the video is compressed.don;t you think that dealing with uncompressed video yields to giant files?uncompressed video means around 10-15MB for 10 seconds of movie! VCD handle DVD movies or ordinary video pretty well.the uqlity is superb and definatelly it has less playback problems than the alpha version of the DiVX.You need two CDs though to make a proper looking movie while with DiVX you need less than one(you can have a 1:30 long movie in a 500-550 MB file with amazing quality.Anyway as you said i am not flaming but giving some basic info about video compression. Lastly, I didn't know that you can play VCDs in DVD players and this is quite interesting.This is a big advantage of VCD if this is the case.

I am planning to build a new system from scratch and i want opinions on Intel sckt370 motherboards.I don't really care about speed as long as it is steady and reliable, and has good UDMA-66/100 controller for the HD. Thanks in advance

from what i read and heared so fat 815 chipset of Intel is not that slow.I mean it's slower than VIA's Apollo Pro 2 but i really don't want to bother with VIA since a lot of users have problems. That's when stability comes to light.What do i care if a m/board gives me some extra frames on games but it crashes and have compatibility problems all the time? Any suggestions of other types of motherboards (including VIA) are always welcome! Thanks for reading

The best think you can do if you want to use Windows explorer is to create a desktop or quick launch shortcut of it.Open your WinNT folder and find explorer.exe (the one with the magnifier and folder icon NOT the one with the computer icon unless you want your computer to point to MyDocuments when you start explorer). Then right click on it and press SendTo-->Desktop(create shortcut) or right click it and drag and drop it to the quick launch bar.After you create the shortcut right click it and go to properties. On the Shortcut tab go to Run and choose maximised.

Well your best bet is DiVX.This codec rocks, it has the same quality as VCD's(near to DVDs) and you can fit one 2 hour movie into one CD having excellent quality. If you need info on how to do it and what programs to use then follow these links: http://www.divx-digest.com (for general info, guides and programs) http://www.divxtoday.com http://www.doom9.org http://home.wanadoo.nl/ruud.szwajcer/Divx/ (a begginiers guide to create your own DiVX) The only minus on DivX is the time it needs to compress(encode) a movie from a DVD.It takes around 13 hours on my P-III@500 but faster systems might finish it in 5-9 hours. If you want to recompress your VCD's then it will take much shorter to encode. Good luck.

Bobbinbrisco, if your question was aiming me then the answer is yes. Returning from it, i have the problems i already said.

Well your problem is solved now but it drew my attention because it seems like a activeX bug on the microsoft upgrade program.From the error message you say you got, it also sounds that you have Visual C or C++ installed on your system telling you to debug, otherwise the error would be the classic window saying "...illegal operation blah blah blah error log is created blah blah". If anyone has the same problem try and find out if there is a sort of incompatibility or bug that IE 5.5 SP2 has with a certain version on C or C++. Or maybe i am completely wrong in everything and it's all crap what i am talking about!! anyways take care.

Sounds like a corrupted fonts folder.Without being sure if this is the problem, the only think i can think of that you can try is to download TweakUI for win2k from microsoft.TweakUI is a power tool that enables you to later many hidden windows settings.After you install it go to "Repair" tab and then select from the drop-down list "repair font folder". This might do the trick.Otherwise if it is something really annoying (which i bet it is) try running win2k setup and choose repair current installation. Good luck

But i have to kill it!!! Well my problem is that i used to love hibernate but now whenever my PC goes to hibernation after i return to windows2k the response times are REALLY slow.i mean symptoms like:explorer takes ages sometimes to open, programs run slower etc. The only think i changed on my computer is the DVD player (used to have a Pioneer 104S and now have a Hitachi GD-7500).I suspect that the problem is the DVD since it causes enough problems as it is, like it doesn't recognise some disks or after copying large files on the hard disk, the computer goes to its knees.Sounds like a memory leak or something. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanx

Any good freewares you can propose? Thanks

Mua_Dib i'm aware that XP are based on NT kernel and have nothing to do with 9x/ME.what i said was that winXP home will be a replacement of win9x/ME, in terms of heavy OS and light OS. What i wasn't aware of is XP professional version.This might mean what you all talking about but i will agree with everybody that i will not either roll to XP until it's tested properly, since i had enough trouble a year and a half now with win2k pro(drivers, installation, programs etc). I hope that MS will think of us and will not stop win2k support.

Hi everyone.Got a problem that i can't solve so if anyone knows the answer please help. Windows uses bright white color as the default for window background color. This is rather annoying since after 1-2 hours your eyes get blury .When changing the window colour to anything but white and opening windows explorer, the web content part on the left frame of the explorer remains white.This is really annoying since it doesn't look good at all since there are two colours in the same window like separating lines! I couldn't find a solution myself and trying to edit the web content with FrontPage made my life more difficult. Any suggestions?

OK guys thanks a lot for the answer.I'm not home right now to try it out but i bet it's going to be working.