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Radeon 7500 suck? What the heck is wrong with some of you? I've done a ton of research about the Inspiron 8100 (for my first notebook purchase), and I've found that the GF2 GO is a complete disaster. Its filled with issues. Issues that required driver updates to complete BIOS updates to fix (even then, some issues still aren't fixed)...What do you expect? Its Nvidia's first attempt at a mobile platform. Just because Nvidia does extremely well in the desktop arena, does not mean they "rule the roost" for all markets. Ati still holds the largest market share for mobile graphics. Have a look... http://www.gotapex.com/reviews.php?rev=gf2go-vs-7500/index.html http://www4.tomshardware.com/mobile/02q1/020220/index.html It is only recently, that the GF4 GO 440 is able to match (and just barely beat, by a few "points") the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500. Despite this, mobile versions of the Geforce (2 GO and 4 GO) tend to drain your batteries alot more than the ATI option. Ati drivers (in notebooks) are way more stable than Nvidia's. But the problem is, they lack updates (Dell is currently working on a new set) and all companies that feature the Mobility Radeon 7500 force consumers to use WinXP. (Including Dell, Sony, etc.) It is only IBM that releases drivers for Win98, Win2k and WinXP for the Mobility Radeon 7500.

I've been looking around...And I was wondering does anyone own one of these books? Are they good? Opinions? For learning about Win2k itself ------------------------------- *Windows 2000 Essential Reference (Essential) by Steven Tate (Editor), et al Paperback - 700 pages 1 Ed edition (April 21, 2000) New Riders Publishing; ISBN: 073570869X ; *Mastering Windows 2000 Professional by Mark Minasi Paperback - 1040 pages 2 edition (October 23, 2000) Sybex; ISBN: 078212853X ; *Windows 2000: The Complete Reference by Kathy Ivens, Kenton Gardinier Paperback - 1070 pages (January 14, 2000) Osborne McGraw-Hill; ISBN: 0072119209 ; Dimensions (in inches): 2.18 x 9.09 x 7.32 Win2k Registry -------------- *Admin911: Windows 2000 Registry by Kathy Ivens Paperback - 351 pages 1st edition (December 2000) McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing; ISBN: 0072129468 ; Tweaking Win2k -------------- *Tuning and Sizing Windows 2000 for Maximum Performance by Curt Aubley Hardcover - 638 pages 2 edition (December 20, 2000) Prentice Hall Computer Books; ISBN: 0130891053 ; Win2k Security -------------- Windows 2000 Security Handbook by Philip Cox, Tom Sheldon, Phillip Cox Paperback - 700 pages 1st edition (December 15, 2000) McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing; ISBN: 0072124334 ; Windows 2000 Security by Roberta Bragg Paperback - 569 pages (October 2000) New Riders Publishing; ISBN: 0735709912 ; I wanna know the full capabilities of Win2k. Its strengths and weaknesses as well how to set things up properly.

I'm a newbie to Windows 200 Pro, having moved from Win95B...To my problems... Problem 1 --------- For me, this applies to both Windows Media Player 6.4 (comes with Win2000 Pro) and Windows Media Player 7. When I open any video clip (mpeg, Divx, AVI, WMA, ASF, etc), my computer suddenly switches to a blue screen with the following message. *** STOP: 0x0000001E (0xC0000005, 0x00000000, 0x000000, 0x00000000) KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED Beginning dump of physical memory Physical memory dump complete. Contact your system administrator or technical support group. ========= I also hear the Hard disk park itself just a fraction of a second before this screen appears. Problem 2 --------- I know Win2K Pro provides DEFAULT drivers for SB Live! cards. But I don't like them. I try an install drivers from my SB LIVE. I try to run some of the Live apps but they don't appear when I try to run them. They just sit in the background and don't appear on the screen. eg Creative Surround Mixer. I check Task Manager and they are there. I have downloaded the new Liveware 3 for Win2k but when I double click to run SETUP...it shows the usual InstallShield and then nothing. I look in Task Manager and its there sitting in the background doing nothing. Problem 3 --------- I run Outlook Express (I'm using IE 5.5), and it takes 5 minutes to show up on the screen everytime. These problems are fustrating, and I require assistance to fix them. My system config is... Pentium III 1000Mhz ( 100Mhz FSB, SECC2 form ) ABIT BF6 motherboard 384 MB KingMax PC 133 SDRAM SB LIVE! PLAYER (The Asia/Pacific version of the same SB LIVE! MP3+) TNT2 PRO video card (32MB) Sigma Designs Hollywood Plus DVD Decoder SMC 10/100Mbit network card Tekram 390U3W Ultra160 SCSI card Plextor 40tsi (SCSI 40x CD-ROM) Plextor 12/10/32S (SCSI CD-RW) Pioneer 303R (SCSI 6x DVD-ROM) 1x IBM 34GXP DESKSTAR 13.6GB HDD 2x IBM 75GXP DESKSTAR 30.0GB HDD I'm not quite sure what the problem is...I think the SB LIVE drivers causing the problem...What do you think??? I require help.... Thnks in advance.

I found the solutions to my problems... To solve the 2nd one Clean install Win2k and install the latest drivers for SB LIVE (for Win2000) straight after Win2k installation. Do not install the Creative Launcher. To solve the 3rd one Format and Clean install Win2k. A file was corrupted. What was going on with Problem 1??? It appears that it is Nvidia's Detonator 3 drivers (VERSION 6.50) that is causing the problem. This particular version's file called nv4_disp.dll causes the problem under both WMP 6.4 and 7. The solution here is to install version 6.31 This problem only occurs with TNT2 cards and version 6.50 of the drivers.

I have just formated and started again. The only problem now is "PROBLEM 1" Straight after installing Win2k, I did the following... I installed the SB LIVE drivers for Win2k which I downloaded directly from www.soundblaster.com I then installed Nvidia drivers ver 6.50 for Win2k from www.nvidia.com Now, I run only WMP 6.4 and load a video clip, OK that's fine. Plays whole clip without a hitch. BUT When I double click a video file, WMP 6.4 plays that file for about 3 seconds, then gives me the blue screen with the same error message as shown on Problem 1 of my first post. I restart again and double click the same mpeg file again, but this time it plays perfectly without a hitch...What's going on? Is the SB LIVE drivers still causing the problems despite being the latest version for this operating system. Could it be the SB LIVE is in a particular PCI slot that Win2k does not like?