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If you do the upgrade then it does a compatibility check.

ooh that happened to me when my dad tried to install a non-2000 compatible application (why did I ever give him admin access!!!) and I ended up reformating. There was probably another way around the problem but I have only recently moved to win2k having been brought up on DOS bases OS's.... Does anyone know of another way round this kind of problem?? i.e. a stop error on bootup

before christmas I was at university and my room mate was watching a DVD on his win2k system (ABIT KT7 mobo) using Hollywood+ drivers and REALmagic. His DVD appeared to crash REALmagic on a frequent basis which annoyed him a lot. Fast forward to january 2001 and I have bought myself a Creative Encore 12x kit (Win2k and an MSI 6330 mobo). I used the creative player and beta drivers for a bit with my Hollywood+ derived DXR3 card, with no problems at all before installing the sigma drivers and REALmagic. Now when I play DVD's I often experience crashes and 'pauses' during playback which I am sure must be due to the REALmagic software.. Maybe there is a common factor causing all these crashes to happen but I just thought I would let you know of my recent experiences....

Yeah, I know what you mean. It can be a real pain in the arse. However the problem is quickly solved by: i) Switching on your modem ii) Going to control panel>modems iii)Atempt to add a new modem and let win2k search for a new one. It will not find one but will magically rediscover yours on COM1, COM2 or whatever, saving you a reboot. Hope that helped. Pete

This happened to me too when i forst upgraded to windows 2000. I am sure that it was cured by re-installing the graphics card rivers.

Well, when I first installed whistler, in the readme.1st file there were a lot of instructions about its incompatibility with easy cd creator, so maybe that has something to do with it.