superman322

why is it better?

so you did what i did in the original post. whats the date of your driver? Please check it. 8/31?

no brother not quite, its not an application its the BIOS. What's the differance? The differance is that when your booting up, the load on your HD is very heavy compared with when you are already in the OS. Also if the program is badly coaded with same circumstance it will result in a fatal crash, and you will have to restart computer due to total failure (crash) a.k.a freeze-up of system. If that hapens regularly it will aslo couse Haardware failure. I don't know why you can't see why a regularly scheduled repeated boot crash would break it. To be more specific the ploter in the HD gets destroyed. Verified by IBM.

open your case and pull out the card. its printed on it.

Hey chaps, how did you manage to install these so called drivers. Actually I haven't figured out if they even are drivers or driver updates. We have to be carefull on our definitions here. The file name says "Update" and I am starting to think that in fact that is all they are, just an update wich you must install on top of the native XP drivers. Anyway this seems to be the only way to install "IT" to get full functionality: 1) Instal Live ware 3.0 (designed for Win 2000) -please note this is no longer availbale from SB for free. if you had it from the past like me you are one step ahead. 2)Restart compututer upon wich XP force installs native drivers. No choice about that. 3) install this peace of **** update thing & restart. Everything works dandy i think. *****************************NOTE******************************* If you UN-install the native XP drivers, and imediately install the new creative driveres, after restarting you will have NO drivers at all installed and ofcourse once more XP force installs its own native drivers. This leads me to belive that the file name is correct and in fact this is just a patch. Therefore you can only install creative drivers over native xp drivers. Everything SEEMS to work properly for me now. *****************************starnge thing*********************** these new drivers when checked in device manager have the following date (8/31/2001). Whats up with that? Agust 31????? It should be October 26 or something. Driver # 3509.1.0.0 ******************************************************************** 1) What is the driver version number and the date that you have? -It seems creative only updated the WDM drivers, the game controller and rest are still Microsoft XP drivers. 2) HOw did you install it and with what results. If something is not perfect after please state clearly.

yes I have BE6 II v2.0 (same as BX133 but slot) The problem is the BIOS but f'n Abit doesn't have update for their BIOS. We should be able to disable something in BIOS to prevent it from writing to that potected range. Proboly caching or shadowing, I am not sure. The problem is that both BIOS and OS try to write to same part, and OS won't let the BIOS do it. THis for a fact resulted in the eventual breakage of my IBM 46.1 GIg 7200rpm ata100 drive. Hope new bios is released soon before peoples drives are seriaously damaged.

Netscape.........WHAT????????????????? Don't you mean """AOL Navigator"""? Frikin' garbage.

Generic Host Process for Win32 Service" (svchost.exe) Located: c:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe what is this???????????????????????????????????????????????? it tries to get access to internet i don't know what to do with zone alarm. ---------------------- Also what should i do regarding "Services and Controller app" Located: c:\windows\system32\services.exe What is this??? ---------------------- Please help me. Thanx in advance

Sometimes i get stuck at the win XP logo with the black backgroung (litlle animation going from left to right) you know what i mean. Its gray and then becomes bright the little thingy goes from left to right 3 times and you are inside windows. BUT sometimes the logo just stays gray and i get stuck there. then i hit reboot button on my tower and bam it works. whats up with that??? its really wack, and i am getting pissed off. That really sucks. ofcourse this only happens sometimes. Like when i played with the XP firewall (disable, enable). but it happened a few other times too. It hapened in my previous install as well, that is until my hard drive broke and i had to send it back to IBM. It perminantly go stuck there. Try to help me. It has to be XP. i never had this prob in 2000 pro. So i know others must be having the same probs. SYSTEM -Abit BE6 II v2.0 w. HPT370 ATA 100 chip. Raid, but not using raid feature. Using Win XP defailt mass storage controller for this. -IBM Gpx 60 gig ata 100 -DSL settup. No network. What the fuzz could it be? 8)

xp is NT v5. Not 5.1!! never will be, even after update. haha liveware is for all SB cards. they don't make specific ones for diff cards. liveware is not a driver, its a program plus a collection of drivers. I don't see what the point of this post is, no offence. the XP Sb live drivers that came with Xp are just fine. But only w. clean install. Is this supposed to fix sound or back spk. I don't think installing liveware 3 is enough to do the trick to get back spk output. The official XP drivers will be out late october. I know some people have probs w. back speaker output. As for crackling, thats true. the sb shares resourcess w. IDE drivers, ie. HPT370 mass storage controller ata 100. The drivers are not a good mach up, so update your mobo. if still no good, wait until October Xp drivers come out for SB.

------------------------- "Generic Host Process for Win32 Service" (svchost.exe) Located: c:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe what is this???????????????????????????????????????????????? it tries to get access to internet i don't know what to do with zone alarm. ---------------------- Also what should i do regarding "Services and Controller app" Located: c:\windows\system32\services.exe What is this??? ---------------------- Please help me. Thanx in advance

I donloaded the pro version 2.6.84 Is that the newest? Does it work w. XP? I know there is 2.6.231, is that the newest one? Its a bit confusing. Thanx

ya, you r right, TNT 1 was awsome when it first came out, but a lot of people complained about it being so CPU and RAM dependant, unlike Voodoo. So that is what i meant by it not being such an advantage at that time, but now it is, because everytime u get new CPU your are also making your vid card better. ofcourse I can't achieve crazy high fps like somepeople here, but it really is good and very very smooth in any game. I got an ATI Radeon 64meg DDR vi/vo (mainly for DVD & tv out) for my frineds whe i built them a system, and even though they had an un-overcklocked 1gig w.266Mhz FSB, i couldn't realy tell the diference in game performance. Honestly, but when i tested it w. 3d mark 2000, the score was much much higher than mine ofcourse. At one time, my TNT1 was performing badly, but after i got a new mobo, CPU, RAM, etc it came alive. So i decided what the heck, if its doing good now, i may as well wait until more & better vid cards come out buy one when I actually need one.

I used Black ice for the longest time now. If you want effective, informative and above all easy to use, more like fully automatic, its the way to go. The other one i am considering is Zone Alarm. I just hear so many good things about it, that I will switch to it soon. I don't think Win XPee Firewall is good, so use 2 if possib' or just go with Zone Alarm. P.S. I haven't used Z.A yet!

I use Sympatico DSL. Similar to yours, the bums force you to use their installation CD that has their dial up/connection program. They call it Access manager. Same thing, it simply didn't recognize my Net card. I callet Tech sup, they said it works w. Win 2000, but obviously not Xp. So I asked them If i can install it manually. They told me it was impossible, didn't know how, and didn't know the #'s to give me to do it. This is how to using Win XP built in; 1) Uninstall the crap you installed. 2) Make sure its gone! Probobly not. 3) Reinstall you Net Card 5) Reboot 6) Start/Connect to/Show all places 7) on side pannel, Make new connection 8) Follow the Wizard. Tips, Do not worry, u don't need #'s & info for this. Just select, Automativcally detect settings. It will find all ISP settings by itself. Also, click the LAN button, don't forget LAN means DSL/CABLE among other things. Before you get to do that, in the wizard, you can select DSL settup. Its all very easy. Good Luck. Oh ya, you will set up your e-mail later, throught outlook express. At that time File/new account, or something similar. U will need your DSN #'s login & pass for this. But u don't need any info such as this to set up your DSL internet connection. Also, do not play with the firewall until you get int working. Do not install Zone Alarm yet. If u did get rid of it. Install it later. The wizard actually will give you a crappy firewall automatically anyway. I think its only a one way wall though.