Brian Frank

Oh, and as if I'm looking for trouble, I picked up a Live 5.1 OEM and stuck it in my VP6 (Apollo Pro 133A+686B). I am not having problems, of course, as always. I do have the drivers off Creative's site as well as the latency patch installed. I personally wouldn't disable ACPI, but it is your call, not mine, and not recommended.

The Live! issues are due to the fact that creative did not follow PCI specifications all the way. While ACPi may be the problem, I would get ahold of the Via latency patch and make sure you have the latest 4-in-1's. You'll need to first change the ACPI PC to Standard PC in device manager, then reboot and go into BIOS and disable ACPI. Personally, I have not had any luck playing with ACPI on any system: always resulted in a reinstall

1.4GHz Athlon T-Bird and a Vantec CCK-6035D ordered. Should be here by Thursday. (Shipping is waaaaay too expesive for anything else)

ISA is being dropped in XP, which means unless you can find those files--they may be with a NT or Win2k disc--you'll have to go back to your old OS or buy a new sound card.

Got my PSU, and shall be ordering my CPU and heatsink soon.

My complaints about the Linux community's false impressions of Windows. -Windows is crash prone. --Not true if you look at Win2k and WinXP. -Windows is more susceptible to viruses. --No duh! It's only the most widely used OS. -How many games run on Linux? --How many companies are making video games for Windows and haven't filed for bankrupcy? -IE is forced down our throats. --And Netscape is better? -Windows is hacked more. --And what about those security advisories I keep hearing about for Linux? -Linux is better than Windows on the desktop. --How so? It sure ain't user friendly, even with KDE and Gnome. -There are drivers out for Linux. --Yes, but how many are supported and from the hardware manufacturer itself? Granted this a big blanket on the Linux community, as I know people who are not the Linux-zealots I'm referring to here. Linux is not going to take over the desktop anytime soon, because it does not offer what people want soon enough. Hell, the Mac supports stuff sooner than Linux does, and in the USB and firewire land, it was the first to totally ditch legacy. Linux still works better with older hardware.

The same. XP Pro is XP Home with some extra goodies.

That, and it's getting in trouble by MS for patent infringement.

XP Pro may be the better choice if you're having problems getting some games to run. XP is still new, and badly in need of a service pack.

They were too busy drinking! Happy New Year, guys!

Well, I just got some more cash so I'll be getting some parts for the Corona-12: a 400 Watt Antec PSU and another stick of 256MB PC2100 DDR.

Have you tried backing up your system state? It should be an option under the Backup utility.

With the upgrade, you don't have to install NT+SP6a. Just go 2k and feed in the NT disk when the 2k install asks for proof of previous ownership.

It's pretty good, but XP is simply Win2k in a pretty interface with some extras. The only reason I got it was because a local college has the hook up with MS and copies are five bucks. An offer I couldn't refuse.

I had to reformat after I tried disabling ACPI, so I just leave it be. It is supposed to help keep the CPU cooler too, BTW.

Tried a Windows Update?

Are you talking, like low-level format? If so, you'll need utilities from your hdd company. DO NOT use another one. Why do you need to do a heavy erase like that? Covering your hinie?

I also feel XP is need with a service pack.

Good call, eddie.

Man, O man, I just had the freakiest BIOS flashing I've ever seen. In preparation for an Athlon XP, I had to flash to the latest BIOS. The flash went fine until I rebooted. Got strange beeps, so I turned off the power (yes, the bios flash was complete and said to do so when I rebooted). Then what came up was nearly as frightening 8) the screen was all messed up! 8) Finally after a few more restarts, I got a nice "beep" and a proper screen. I think this has to be the most horrified I've been in a long time, as far as PC's go. So far so good, as I'm typing this on Corona-12. I've never had a "bad" BIOS flash before, but I can certainly sympathize with those that do and have. It sucks, so I'm glad to get away unscathed.

The old one was a mouthful and rather tiresome to type, and I liked the name. I fixed my A7V too. Bent pins are not your friends. Just like user error. lol!

Fast writes are know to do that. There's nothing you can really do about it, just leave it off. You're not loosing much performance anyway. The only thing I can think of is if you didn't do a clean install going from 98 to XP, but I somehow doubt that would be detrimental to you in the way of fast writes crashing you out.

Depends if it's reporting it as DDR or SDR.

Dude, are you here to help, ask for help, or to troll? Why buy a car ever? You're gonna replace it in 10 years or less. Quit being a troll and post something useful or leave!

Yup. Intel really got bit by trying to force RDRAM on us. I'm sure it's a lovely technology, but most people care how much they get for the price. If RDRAM was faster in most tasks, and noticeably faster, then we'd probably not see so many people po'd about it. As it stands right now, it's a technology that is only useful to those who need it to pump data as fast as possible to the CPU.