Brian Frank

Too bad the last 7-11 closed down over a year ago around here:(

Fast writes do speed up things a little, but it's know to cause instability. Most people don't do it in BIOS, and the drivers seem to disable it. It can be enabled with tweak utilites, I believe NVMax is one.

Well, as my VP6 has lost one of the IDE controllers, and the fact that I'm not using the overclocking features anyway, I got the SuperMicro P3TDDE today. I haven't had the chance to install it, but that's one of the things I plan to do later tonight after work (groan). I like getting my tax rebate:D

All I know is that they seem to be as good as their bigger siblings. No personal experience, but hopefully someone else will see this bumped thread.

Hmmm...well except for some overclocking too high, my Via boards USB work fine. The last board I had with USB issues was, ironically, Intel's own SE440BX-2 board. Go figure. ;( For what I want, Via is great. I've used a number of boards with great sucess, and don't see a reason to stop now. It's not for a real critical business setting, so chipsets really don't matter as much, IMHO.

I disagree. I have noticed a definite performance boost with RAID 0. While a single 7200RPM ATA100 drive does load stuff like Unreal Tournament and other Unreal-based games faster, I can still notice the speed from 2 7200RPM ATA100 drives in RAID 0. And gaming isn't the only thing that's loading faster, Windows does as well. I don't have any other really big loading programs, but the extra speed can't hurt any.

What have you tried, as in, an attempt to fix it? You have tried something to fix it right? All I can say is that it doesn't sound like a mobo issue with your front side bus running at 100MHz. If you had bumped it up to 133MHz, there might be a problem, but the way it stands from the info, it doesn't look like the m/b is bad.

What have you tried?

I believe that the latest BIOSes encompass all of the previous updates or fixes of the previous BIOS updates, unless the older BIOSes had an addition that was bad.

Yes there have been, but most rate it as an okay cooler. You can get a better cooler for the money, and it will probably be smaller. Tweak Town has a review I believe, Dan's Data has a huge cooler roundup article and I remember seeing the DO3 there. Frosty Tech has one too I believe.

It works the same. The advantage is that it doesn't keep changing size, which is arguably better than Windows doing it for you. It stays the same size or within a certain size, depending on how you set the max and min setting.

Best answer is "maybe". If you have the BIOS for it that supports the Morgan core Duron's, you might be able to. Otherwise, I don't know. I would check AMDMB to be sure.

How's that Epox workin' for ya? I've heard, other than a compatibility issue with any reference designed GF4, it's a pretty good board for the overclocker.

Yup. The GF4MX's DO NOT have DirectX 8 hardware capabilities, so keep that in mind if you are playing newer games.

Ouch!

Yeah, he has. I checked the members section and he's on it, but no posts when I looked.

Hey, at least they dropped N*Stink from the guest apperance list. I'm really hoping it's not as cheesy as the Anakin-accidently-flys-up-and-destroys-the-control-ship crap in Ep.1. Also, I think I speak for most people when I say "Death to Jar Jar!" Ep.2 looks cool, but then again, so did Ep.1.

Well, if you don't desire an external box, I just picked up the Hercules Fortissimo II. I haven't done any gaming yet, but this card rocks. The Audigy is also good, unfortunately mine is being a b!tch about sounding good on my main system with the KT266 chipset. It's worked fine before so don't discount it for my experience. The Fortissimo II would be a good bet if you're on a budget. It's 60 bucks USD on retail shelves and cheaper (mid $40's) on line.

Ahh, it's in beta right now, and I can't say what the ETA is either. I just know it's coming down the pipes.

Quote: Where did you get the 128mb version from? Gainward has a 128MB version of a Ti200. In other news, I just came home with a Hercules Fortissimo II. The audigy refuses to work properly in the system I want it to, and I'm so sick of the sh!t I've been getting from it that I just don't want another creative card right now. It just entirely pisses me off

Agreeing with above comment...

Yes it does, however you will still need to defrag if you have data on all the parititions. You probably can run a 3rd party defragger on multiple drives, but the built in Windows defragger doesn't have that capability.

Nope. I tried Win2k on a system running at 400MHz with 64MB of ram; it was unbearable to work with. I wouldn't even try it on that slow of system, because of, well, the lack of speed.

Based on the information given, it appears (and this could just be me) that he has a system with XP preinstalled. He's going to have to reformat and reinstall 98. If it so happens that he does have an upgrade from 98 to XP with just installing XP ontop of 98, the system will be effectively screwed up so bad that he should do a clean install to save his sanity.

Correction: I am a dork. I got so sick of trying to get that stupid window mod in that I just used a tightly taped down piece of saran wrap (looks pretty damn good actually) instead. Somehow, my Audigy software got totally screwed up so everything sounds like crap. I guess I'm gonna have to do a reinstall of all the stuff (shrugs). Oh, well, ain't the first time I've had to reinstall, tho it does piss me off quite a bit.