Brian Frank

It's to fake out programs to believe they're running and/or to make them think they're installed under an OS other than XP.

Haven't played with the corporate NAV (as I don't need it), but the normal NAV kicks. I swear by NAV.

Been here since the 20th of Jan 01. Man, have I learned a lot about computers since then. Of course, I'll look back a year later from now and think I didn't know jack.

I will probably win the odd assorment of artist collection: Incubus Korn The Apex Theory Mudvayne Adema Goo Goo Dolls Our Lady Peace Linkin Park

I've got a disk with the drivers for that card around here somewhere. Give me your e-mail and I'll see what I can do.

I haven't used the board myself, but I'd expect it to be a top notch board just from previous experiences with Asus. I'm pretty sick of Abit's boards as they're simply unreliable POS, but Asus has been one of my favorite brands. Unless you have to have the highest overclocking board, I seen no reason not to get an Asus. They put stability and reliablity before overclocking features.

The only thing I can think of that would do what you want is VMware. Unfortunately, the last version of it I used isn't as good as doing a dual boot. I'm not sure if the latest version does, but your hardware isn't recognized as the hardware it is. If you do basic stuff like office apps, it'd be fine, but for gaming that's not gonna be the best. Otherwise, I don't know of anything else that comes close.

Anyone that likes FPS games must get Jedi Knight II. It's the first FPS game that's long and enjoyable. Still waiting for Unreal 2 of course and DX 2. I've also been hearing some stuff about a new game called "Kreed". Looks pretty nice too.

Yeah, certain hardware is crucial for certain apps. For me, it doesn't matter save my tastes.

Quote: I have seen plenty of people with their oc'ed athlon systems who claimed that they rocked and would stomp my p3 dually. The fact of the matter is they don't. People are so concerned with processor speed and graphics cards that they have forgotten how much performance you can acheive with a well balanced system. I agree. Overclocking is fun, so long as you can continue to do your stuff without problems. An overclock is worthless if it prevents you from using your system. I only overclock one machine, and I'm satisfied with the overclock. However, the other machines can run games just fine. Most games don't even require a 1GHz CPU to run fine. I've got the only system with a CPU running at over 1GHz. Most systems here at home run 800MHz CPU's and 2 run even slower ones. Save the 450MHz P3, the other systems can game pretty darn well, including the laptop.

While we've got DSL, the rest of the family in the state (my dad's side) still have only 56k as their option. While satellite probably is available, that tends to be pretty high. I'm not sure if that's your situation or not.

Okay, I have an MSI 694D Pro-A motherboard with the Promise PCD20265 ATA100 controller plus a limited FastTrak BIOS with RAID function. I install Win2k on my hard drive this time and it will boot up fine on the regular IDE channels, but it is seen as a "Free" drive in the Promise RAID BIOS. This is a clean install with Win2k. I've used Maxtor's MaxBlast utility to partition and format it in FAT32. I don't know if that's causing the problem or not. I don't know what to do here. The RAID BIOS is the FastTrak "Lite" BIOS--and is limited. I cannot rebuild the array within the BIOS, nor can I delete it. I have the drive split up into 2 partitions: C: is the swap drive, and D: is the Windows drive. I've tried changing the jumpers around, but no success in the RAID BIOS.

Oh, yes, I have my SuperMicro, replacing the VP6 as it tended to lockup during boot with the default settings. I wasn't using the overclocking features to boot, so when that nice Fed tax return came, I hit one of the shops and came home with it. I'm Big B over @ 2CPU, BTW. The only RAM issue I ran into was trying to run it at CAS2. My generic sticks would, but the PNY stick didn't and would not come up in the memory count during POST and obviously Windows.

That's only one step. Try running UT and see how long you can play that mofo before lockups. You'll know it pretty quick. Oh, and don't be a weenie and disable the background stuff, leave it on like it normally runs for cryin out loud. I like overclocking, but I'm not gonna go to watercooling just for that extra MHz or something. I'm a 'casual overclocker' persay. My first concern is stability before overclocking, then we talk overclocking (if board is made for it). I can't enjoy my overclock if the system won't run without crashing in UT.

Preach it, brutha'! If I didn't like IE I'd have gotten something else to use. I don't like NS because of the way it's setup and the features, or lack of.

That's probably how you explain overclocking.

Ya, that's the one thing I really don't like about the on-board promise controllers: they're largely castrated of their old functions. I got some old 4.3GB drive lying around I can try (I got the P3TDDE to replace the VP6) on it tomorrow. You could try to define two separate arrays, each drive being an array. This a big guess, and I don't think it'll work, but I do remember running a single drive on that MSI as it's own array. I don't think I was able to add a second drive by making it it's own array. Go ahead and try it.

I think for home users, XP is great. For business, 2k is still the better choice, IMO. Both have been stable for me, but I feel that 2k has more of it's issues addressed.

I'll have to d/l the manual and look, but I'd be shocked if Abit didn't have that in their BIOS.

One site that comes to mind about indepth stuff is Ars Technica. They may not have everything you're looking for, but they do go fairly well into depth, so prepare for some heavy reading. The have a well done article on RAID levels for one.

That's because the setup is running from RAM (where everything runs from). Yeah, you'll need that TXTSETUP.OEM. You need that at the "top" of the drive (not under any folders) and the driver folder for the highpoint controller.

Intel's advantages: lower and/or better at coping with heat, not currently limited to 2-way SMP, nearly unkillable when paired with an Intel chipset. Intel still owns the server market, as AMD is still in their first venture here. People aren't easily pursuaded to jump to a new platform if the current one is working fine. Intel is also a much bigger company than AMD. Both make more than just CPU's, but Intel just makes more stuff period.

Seagate seems to be complained about the least of those three. I like Maxtor too, but I've RMA'd 3 drives in recent history. Never seen a bad WD, and I've seen quite a few. I've only run into one Seagate, and that 150MB (yup) is still workin' in some kid's PC last I knew, and it was old when I got it

I've seen one guy who had one, and it's apparently a poor card in the reliablity section. I wouldn't buy anything Chaintech, as they have a bad rep (and a bad name).

No. It's a hardware thing. You'd probably be looking at chopping up a drive into a number of partitions, but as long as the motherboard (or appropriate addon card) will support the drive's size, you shouldn't be in trouble.