Brian Frank

Dos support is better in 98 than ME. In ME they shouldve either dumped Dos totally or left it the way it was in 98. I personally had no luck with ME and would recommend sticking with 98 for the time being, and see if WinXP will suit you.

Just checkin', cuz the mobo manuals dont always show all the dip switch settings. Im trying to see how far up I can go before things lock up. I have the ram set to 133MHz so any FSB over 100MHz will raise the ram above 133MHz. Right now Im at a 107MHz FSB and a 9.5 multiplier. This seems to be running okay right now and has the best chance for increasing the bandwith over 1GHz. No matter how hard I try the limit seems to be 1050MHz, but I'll have to see how close I can get to that w/o crashing. Bandwith plays a MUCH bigger role than the clock multiplier. Ive run some Sandra memory and cpu benchmarks and it just uses half the available ram and Im on par with the 1GHz T-Bird and P!!! 1GHz. Bandwith is life!!

My theory is that some people are p*ssed off enough that MS made a popular product and since thats not "fair" they have to sue MS so that they wont DARE to make a popular OS. My question to them is: Give me a comparable alternative. Youve got the Mac and Linux, but neither one is even close to what you can have with Windows. Granted Windows is popular, but thats becauce of CHOICE...sorry that Windows has the most hardware support for stuff. They need to go after hardware and software makers for more support under Linux. AOL, although I it, is popular because of choice--and even with the Time-Warner/AOL merger, nobody is suing them for that. It just comes down to the fact that some people are the haves and most others are the havenots---some of which dont like it, chaos ensues.

Oh, yeah!1Gigahertz, baby!!! Actually 998~999MHz...CLOSE ENOUGH!!! Unless...does anyone know the 112FSB setting for the 4 dip switches on the Asus A7V (KT133 chipset)?

Here's something interesting---yes ANOTHER lawsuit against Microsoft. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,46633,00.asp Read it... I know I'd personally like MS not to charge so much for Windows...but in terms of compatability, what are you really gonna compare?

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Oh boy, it seems Ive started the long post in this section... Looks like Ive got the "I dont mean to pi$$ everybody off.... version 2.0" right here. [This message has been edited by Brian Frank (edited 07 April 2001).]

Yeah, the 9x line is faster, but its not necessarily stable. I can still get a pretty good score from my Win2k only pc with just a GF2MX with the lastest leaked Dets. ...like 5200~5300 in 3dmark 2000+overclocking. My other system is a dual boot with Win2k and WinME using a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP and really cant tell the difference playing games. Benchmarking ME does have it over 2k by ~1000 points in 3dmark 2000, but I dont care too much for the 9x line personally. It really comes down to the drivers not the hardware. Nvidia does a pretty good job under Win2k with the drivers, while ATI and the pretty much non-existant 3dfx had some major drawbacks, especially ATI. Nvidia cards seem to be the way to go, unless the Kyro 2 can rack up sales. About the speakers: I just figured it could be just one of those "D'oh!" things, just to be sure.

Okay, I picked it up today. I go to install it but when I plug it into the usb port Win2k tells me it needs the hidusb.sys file. I did a search on all the hard drives, the Sidewinder CD, the Win2k CD, and the Win98 CD. NOTHING!! Please explain WTF is going on!

Thanx, I stuck in the Win2k cd and found it by luck. Thats the weirdest thing though...

Also, look for a little program called RegCompact, I think I got it off of PCWorld's download center... anyway, it compacts the registry and that does a lot for you in speed. Also, get the Disk Keeper 6.0, or the trial and get a for it, as that is the best defragger out there. Side note: I can get it to run at 950MHz, but I have to set my cas timings to 3 instead of 2, and the performance is slightly less than when Im OC by the FSB and setting my cas to 2. No matter what, I cant get it to boot up properly half the time and if I do, it usually knocks out on me--voltage change or no, still nada. I still may go to 950 just for the hell of it and then play with the cas settings to see if I can get one of the three settings to 2 instead of 3 and have a stable system. It'll be interesting...

Make sure the IDE and Floppy ribbons arent cut or stripped ANYWHERE! Also try having the Burner on one IDE channel and the DVD on another. Then have your hard drive hooked up to the RAID (copy the files for the RAID controller over to a floppy).

MS Intellimouse Optical eye mice are great no matter what version...especially if youve got cats or other shedding pets. Love it!

Never mind...never trust the file searching in Windows. Cant find much without being slapped in the face with it.

Yup. Talking about getting high always diverts the topic. Potheads...

Id try the leaked Dets if OpenGL doesnt work out. I do know that SBLive!users have discussed in detail about SBLive! issues and Im pretty sure something like that came up here. I havent really paid too much attention to the SBLive! problems, mainly cuz I dont have one. Also, check your speakers and connections, cuz who knows if that might be the problem.

I hope you take a good breath before you start, cuz their aint no stoppin the action for more than a few seconds!

Are you overclocking your GTS? As for the SBLive!, some people have had problems with the cards, others havent. I used the leaked Dets w/o problems, Id recommend the 10.80 Dets and they ran fine, and right now Im using the 11.01 Dets. These are not the final versions, but they run very well.

Well, some people have had problems with SP1 and some, like me, have not. I would advise going to SP1 as soon as possible. It is one of the first things I install after Win2k is done installing, which could help things quite a bit.

Yeah, by the pic I saw before its gonna be nice and big, unfortunately, my browser wont stay on it long enough for me to do anything...thanks dad, for trying to change the IP address, now some of MY bookmarked sites wont come up. I may try to get it to go to 950MHz again and push the voltage up all the way, but Im not holding my breath for this one after what I just saw...but at least I unlocked the multiplier.

Got my war3z.Hehehehe

Go to www.apple.com for the latest version of Quicktime.

Yeah, had to use a magnifier to get it to go, but its all kinda wasted, but at least I know how far I can probably push the ol' Duron and I think Im not gonna get much more and still be stable. Oh well, it was kinda fun just to see it hit 1GHz, too bad I couldnt get it to stay.

And strikeeeeee 3!!!! No go at 950! Damn! Oh well, I put it back to the 904MHz I already got...so close, yet so far...I think Im really to the point where it doesnt do me too much good to overclock much more than this and have a stable system.

Your not an idiot but you have made yourself a jack@ss here with the flaming attacks. You do have some great knowledge to add here, but no one's an idiot here. We can get some good feedback from you. Granted there is a difference of opinion on the OS preference, but thats all an opinion and You are one of the very few experienced people who doesnt ME, which is astounding. You dont have to give up ME if you like it. I gave it up because it didnt work well for me. I see no problem with running an OS that works great for you. You have some good knowledge, and aside from the posts here, you've given some very good help here. Ive seen some things you've posted that were a very fresh look at things, that I'd never considered.