BloodRedDragon

AlecStaar, you have a nice rig, too. That 4 drive striped volume must really kick. Is the new drive 7200 rpm? Eventually, I'd like to get another drive to use for the OS's, then use the 10k2's as a striped volume via NT's built in support for striping. By the way, Quake 3 smp eventually works when it wants to. I managed to play a game here and there before it froze. Ofcourse, restarting the game several times before it would even let me play wasn't very enjoyable, so I took it out of smp mode. It's not like the game really needs two 1 ghz processors working for it. ps- I think I'm going to learn alot here.

Quake server SMP only? That stinks. I am running a pair of 1 gig P3's on a MBI motherboard I picked up at CompUSA recently(VIA 694X + 686B chipset). Amazing, I was able to swap it in in place of a Soyo motherboard with a VIA chipset without having to reinstall the operating systems. Nothing is overclocked due to I have cheap ram that doesn't hold well above 135 mhz, but there's 768 megs of it. Eventually, I will splurge for quicker ram, maybe 150 mhz with quicker timing. As for the rest of the system, I use a Tekram Ultra 160 dual channel scsi controller with a pair of Quantum Atlas 34 gig 10k2's. Thinking of dropping in an old 4.3 gig IBM ultra wide drive for on-the-fly back-up of important files. Other cards include Pinnacle DV500 capture card, Hollywood DVD playback card, Elsa Gladia GeForce 2 GTS(32mb), and a lowly Soundblaster PCI 64. Other drives are a Pioneer DVD, Teak 4x24 CD-R, LS120 ide, and ZIP250 ide. By the way, since you're big on smp, I also have an old BP-6 with dual 500mhz celerons overclocked to 566mhz.

i don't know about capability between the two. however, for driver support issues, i strongly suggest you stay away from the MX400. the only driver i know of is for NT4, which also works in W2k and maybe XP, but lacks alot of features.

How do I upgrade XP Pro to a multiproccessor kernel?

That worked flawlessly in W2k Pro(dual boot system), but I can't get that same list under XP Pro. Need I reinstall XP to get it to work?

I've read about being to create a new Windows 2000 cd with an integrated service pack. Can this be done with NT 4.0?

Thanks. May not be the answer I wanted, but my technical vocabulary has been updated.