wind

Well, over here in the land of Australia, I would have to say that coke is a more dominant drink/franchise. From all the people that I know, coke is pretty much preffered and I would easily have to agree. There could be a difference between US pepsi/coke and AU pepsi/coke, I know for a fact that AU mountain dew is a loot different from US dew. You dont see too many pepsi machines in the city that I live in but there are quite a few coke machines around. Mc Donalds and Hungry Jacks(burger king) both serve coke also.. mm coke But, from what ive heard over the years from various people in the US, pepsi seems to be bigger than coke in the US..shrug, whatever does it for you I guess. [This message has been edited by wind (edited 17 September 2000).]

Very strange indeed - a friend of mine had a problem similar to this, you could either try degaussing your monitor, and if that doesnt work then you might need to get it repaired.

I asked a friend who tried this and he said he had no luck.

Anything higher than DX3 for NT 4.0 is a piece of unofficial uncertified nothing-to-do with microsoft piece of software. NT 4.0 does not officially support anything over DX3 and it probably never will, Win2000 will solve your problems there..

Has anyone had success in running cubase 5 under Windows 2000? Its supposed to be supported but when I run it I get a very strange kernel32.dll error. Could be a SMP thing, or liveware3, who knows

I was going to buy a celeron 2 and go for some mad overclocking action, but now with amd durons around that are bitchslapping celeron 2's in benchmarks and even some p3's, suddenly im not too interested anymore. I think im just going to wait for P4 or something.

I havent heard anything good about the tyan tiger 133 yet - I wouldnt go near a via chipset with a P3 due to poor memory performance. If you really need to step outside the 100mhz bus barrier, I would suggest the Tyan Thunder 2500. However, this is not a cheap option and is one of the best dual cpu motherboards ive seen out there. With support of 133mhz bus, pc133 ram, 8 64bit pci slots, onboard scsi and 8 ram slots, you really cant go wrong if you have the money You can get nearly all p3's in 100mhz bus form at the moment anyway, and due to the lack of good dual p3-133mhz bus motherboards, I wouldnt bother with them for awhile to come.

Oh, btw, heres a link to info about the motherboard - to my knowledge they still sell all over the place and are fairly decently priced. http://www.giga-byte.com/gigabyte-web/products/ga6bxd.htm

Gigabyte 6BXD. This is a dual slot1 motherboard that has 'no thrills' but comes as a high recomendation from me. It supports dual slot 1 p3-850+ with a bios update / undocumented multiplyers, 4 ram slots, 5 pci, 2 isa slots, 2x agp, usb, etc. I've been using this board since december 99 with windows 2000 and I havent had any problems to do with the board at all, nor my system. This is probably the best motherboard ive ever owned and im extremely happy with it - it will take dual fc-pga cpu's with 2 compatible SMP slockets also, just as long as they're 100MHZ bus.

All i815/e chipsets have the ability to run the ram at a different bus speed than the cpu is running. On the asus cusl2(the premium i815e board) you can set 133:133:33, 100:133:33, 100:100:33 etc, which is like cpu:ram:bus, you can also go up to like 216 for some mad overclocking..heh

Well, ive been using detonator 3 drivers for 5 days straight now, not a problem so far. (infact, the release after the old 3.65 drivers, I dont think ive had a problem since then). The fact that they're faster and video-out works on the fly makes them bloody brilliant, only downside is I dont think my video in is working with my card, will have to wait for asus to release some detonator 3 drivers soon ( shouldnt take them too long ). And for people having problems with detonator 3, I would suggest looking elsewhere with whats causing the problems.

Yeah, with the i815e chipset and the asus cusl2, youd be crazy to go with something else Via chipsets seem to suck with p3's, my friend got a 20% performance boost when replacing his old via apollo pro 133 board with the i815e - same cpu and other hardware.

OOoooooh, and, video out works without rebooting now! ON THE FLY! yeahh!

Detonator 3 drivers lease my ass with an option to own! And when you you were wondering how they pulled all that extra speed from 5.xx they've done it again..excellent

Is there anyone out there that is running cubase under win2000 with smp and a soundblaster live? Just like all sorts of other programs, cubase produces that evil popping or wierd loud noise that people seem to be getting with win2k + sblive. Normally to fix this problem I just turn off sound hardware acceleration in dxdiag, but when you do this, cubase just stops working. Its a bad situation Does disabling that irq sharing stuff stop the crackling? At the moment im just running non acpi dual processor setup but ive got that mps stuff enabled in bios and I would think a large amount of devices are hanging off the same irq (how do you actually check your irq's anyone?) - would putting all my devices on seperate irq's fix the problem? Thanks

After doing some troubleshooting myself, I found out that its not only cubase that plays midi's wrong, its windows too.. so the problem is before cubase If I switch to one processor, it works fine..even turning off sound hardware stuff doesnt do anything, looks like another bug in lw3 Oh and I think the new cubase5 has improved sblive support, but it seems fine for me as it is.

With all the problems with sblive, win2k, smp, liveware 3 etc, has anyone had any problems with midi? On my smp system with liveware3, my midi is basically broken With sound acceleration on or off, midi is basically corrupt, with wierd instruments coming in from all over the place or there being the wierd interferance noises you get from some other things. Normally by changing hardware acceleration on / off it fixes these things, but not with midi. I booted my machine with 1 cpu and it was fine, so hm, does anyone else with smp have this problem? Thanks

You dont The way to get sound is to plug whatevers giving out the sound into line in on your sound card.

The asus v6800 geforce is definately the best on that list. A lot of people have no problems what so ever with nvidias drivers with windows 2000, people that do have problems can be caused by something else. Most people that do a fresh reinstall seem to get the drivers going ok.. If the raedon card comes your way, sure thats a better option, but once again, if a geforce 2 gts (asus v7700) comes your way, its even better. Nvidia seem to release the most drivers out of any hardware manufacturer ive ever seen, which is good

Uhh, its not that difficult Just boot of some sort of win9x/dos disk, create a 200mb partition thats fat16, run the setup from there and tell it to copy files to the fat16 drive, then boot of the 3 bootdisks and setup will be able to find the files its after on the fat16 partition - once nt's installed, remove the partition and tada.

Oh, and as far as where to look to buy that ps convertor for pc, www.liksang.com for all your console/etc needs.

MS gamepads are good for compatability, but they feel light/cheap. I guess most pc gamepads are like this, need something with a bit of beef (looks at ps2 gamepad)!

I have the same gamepad as you, and with drivers found at dev.gravis.com you can use it under win2000.. the problem is its a basic driver that has no features and makes windows blue screen every day or so of uptime, bit poor Im sure the sidewinder gamepads would work fine but they arent as good as the gravis equivalent. One interesting option ive seen is to get one of those playstation gamepad converter things that plug into your printer port and use that - drivers work fine in win2000 and you have a quality playstation gamepad.

I was wondering, is there anyone out there with a sblive and a live drive II? Im not quite sure how the livedrive's work, or if they even need drivers or anything. Only question is does the second line in have another control in the volume control and other similar inputs that there are 2 of with the live drive.

I think im having some problems with my ram, but im unsure. My first question is, are there any programs that test your ram that will run under windows 2000? I could probably boot into dos also to test my ram if neccisary. Anyway, im having some wierd problems at the moment. For example, I download 10 files, crc check them, they're fine, then go back sometime later (it could be a hour, a day, a week) and SOMEHOW some of them have crc errors. This happens with all types of files, I could be using a file one moment, go back to it and it will be corrupt or so. The only thing I can pin this problem down to is ram, as files go file > ram > cpu, the problem could be there. I have 4 sticks of ram in my machine, I could try taking some out but would prefer a software solution at first. Any ideas?