bando2000

I use to have both of my systems connected together with WinMe. They both have ethernet cards and both are connected to a hub which is connected to a cable modem. I used to be able to transfer files and play LAN games without a hitch. Can someone explain or send me a sight where I can get these to back to being Peer to Peer. Thanks in advance.

The last response from Xiven fixed the issue with WinMe viewing Win2k. I saw that several times but didn't think about it till you posted that reply. One last issue. Win2K still comes up with no network or computer found. But on WinMe I can view all of Win2k. But Win2K can not view WinMe. Is there something like that on WinMe that I need to do so Win2K can view it. Thank You For All the Help

I am still same problem. But I think you are all right about guest having to be enabled. I gave guest a password. But when I try to log on the window 2000 as guest and use the password. It says this uses is disabled and you need to see the administrator. Will I thought I was enabling it right. You do go to control panel then user password. And then from there you can add or remove users right. And then they should be enabled right or wrong. Thanks again.

Ok before I used NTSF format with Win2k I could see my other box which is winME. Both cards have ehternet cards and both connect to a hub. I have tried Lmhost. No luck!! I have tried many other things. Could I get some post on suggestions for this. I am lost. One thing when I try to connect to the win2000 from winme box. It says enter a password to connect. I tried every password I can think of but nothing. On the Win2k box I get nothing at all. Thanks in advance!!!!!!!!!!!

When playing Giant, the game will reboot when going to another level of the game. I don't understand that. First it would reboot while loading, then I remembered I put -snd3d at the ent of the short cut to enable EAX, Because the game disables it by default. Then I took it off. The game loaded just fine. Then After movie just threw three levels of the game, it would reboot. So I try it again. Got threw three more levels and rebooted again by itself. Now So far I have no crackling like before with my SBLive Gamer. I guess the Service patch's helped that. But of course. It fixs one thing and anoter pops up. any suggestions please.

I have fixed the issue of crackling in Win2K. But I don't like the idea of having to reduce hardware acceleration, to do so. So I have to hard drives I decided to reformat one for win98SE. Will I finally got the second hard drive format which took for ever.It kept saying secured network device format error. So I used fdisk. Finally got it. In win98SE the IRQ setting for the SBlive is 7, and 5. All games run great and no crackling with hardware acceleration at max. THIS IS WHERE THINGS WENT REALLY WEIRD!! I now disconnect the second hard drive and leave the first one connected so I can see what IRQ SBLive is using and if I can change it. Will I boot up. No hard drive connected to the system. I check Bios same thing. I tried several things but nothing seems to work. I then just connect the second hard drive back up and the system boots into win2K. Once In win2K explorer I clicked on the second hard drive it says in order to view this drive it needs to be formatted. No problem I was planning on doing it later any how. I guess I am screwed if I ever want to format the first hard drive!! Any suggestion for that would be great. But now back to SBLive. The IRQ for it is 11, and so is my Wintv card, network card, AGP Card, and my PCI USB which is built on board. Now I have tried to change the network card and SBlive IRQ and there is no way to do so in Win2K or I am missing something here. I checked Netgear web site and it says on trouble shouting that my network card and SBLive need to be on different IRQ's and not be using the same ones. Any thoughts and suggestion on this. My system Spec's are as FIC AZ11 w/1000 TB 256 133 PC RAM Voodoo5 5500 AGP SBLive Gamer Netgear 310TX WinTV Two 20 gig ultra ATA 66 One CD/RW 8X4X32 Print Scanner Intel Web cam Rio MP3 Player Lyra MP3 Player Digital Camera Four Point around sound speakers w/sub woofer.

I will give changing my ACPI to standard and see what happens. I guess I can reformat if I have to. I hope I don't thou.

What I did was go in DX Diagnostic and moved the hardware accelerator from max to basic and it fixed the problem. So far all my DX games run with out the crackling sound and the system doesn't start to reboot after a couple minutes in games. I don't like the idea I have to reduce the hardware acceleration on my sound card to get games to work. In Win9x I never had any of these issues. But of course they weren't as stable either. I guess there is a pay off somewhere out of this. I am looking at getting a Turtle Beach Cruz sound card. But I would like as many reply's as possible on all issues with card that and Win2k combo. Thanks anyways. And I hope this helps others with the same problem.

I had two hard drives one the master, the other the slave. I was dual booting with 98. I tried SP1 and got the message you are talking about. After reading many reply's from the forum. I decide to check my hardware out. I had two things wrong. One was that my second hard drive was on cable select and it had Win2k on it. I changed the jumper to slave. No problem. Then installed the SP1. Same thing again. I was hot. But then someone her suggested that I put Win2k on the master instead of the second drive and believe it or not. It fixed the problem. I now have SP2 on my system without a hitch. Other then SB Live Gamer has to be set to basic acceleration in DX to run D3D games without the crackling. I hope this helps. And by the way if you have an SB Live the other fix is get a different sound card.

I have been at this since I installed Win2K. I have applied all service patches. And have the newest drives for SoundBlaster Live Gamer. What is happening? After a while of playing games my sound in the games starts to crackle really bad and loud. So bad you have to turn the volume off. Now sometimes after exiting the games or games it will lock up on the desktop and I have to reboot. These are the games it happens on NFSHS D3D Giants D3D Shogo D3D Soul Reaver D3D I have others but they run in glide or opengl. And I don't get this from them at all. Is there a fix for this. I believe it is only in D3D. Because Unreal Tournment in D3D, will do the same thing. My system specs are. Thunderbird 1000 FIC mother AZ11 256 PC 133 RAM Netgear 310TX ethernet card WinTv Tuner Voodoo5 5500 AGP SoundBlaster Live Gamer 2 20 gig Ultra ATA 66 1 CDR/RW Panosonic 840 Scanner Printer Intel Web cam Rio Lyra Gravis gamepad pro

I have two hard drives and after installing it twice and getting the same result I just uninstalled it. What would happen is the 2nd hard drive which is also 20 gigs and is already formated with NTSF would show that it had to be formated before it could be used. So I did and when it was done it showed only an 8 gig.hard drive. Both times same thing. The main hard drive worked with no problem other then that. But until someone or microsoft can fix or explain this I guess it will be a while before I ever get SP2 to work for me.

If somebody does, could they extract the files for the Movie Maker and post them so myself or others could try to install them on Win2K.

Is it possible, I have found the files on the WinMe cd. But can not get it to install. Has anyone else had success.

I installed SP1 from windows update. After the install it boots up to a blue screen and tell me there was an error on my harddrive and to reboot. Will I rebooted and rebooted and rebooted same and still the same thing. I then reinstall win2000. And all my apps are there working fine except No internet connection. I am on a cable modem. So I uninstall the SP1, which should of been called SB1. And reboot and everything is fine. I tried it three times with the SP1 and all three times the same thing. Is there an easier way or do I really need this. REPLY BY ANYONE WOULD BE NICE!!!! Thanks

I formated both drives to NTFS. Then did a clean install with the Win2K. Then I installed the SP1 and everything worked just fine. I did it before I installed any drivers. My main problem was that win2K was on the second hard drive and win98SE was on the first hard drive. Once I switched them around It worked just fine. For some reason the SP1 wants Win2K to be on the first hard drive. That is were it looks first. Now I have to Install Linux on the 2nd drive. I just wish Linux supported more games, printers, scanners and pocket pc's. But I still like both. Thanks for the help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have gone threw all the suggestions, but still cann't get SP1 to take after reboot. I am Dual booting with win98SE and am using a FAT32. Could that be the problem. The Dual booting or that my drives are a FAT32. Win98SE is on one drive, while Win2K is on the other. Any more suggestions would be nice.

I have a Voodoo5 5500 and I am able to run the game with everything on high 1024X768 32 bit color, and 32 bit texture. The game runs very smooth. I did have one problem and it was with the sound card. I have Soundblaster Live Gamer. But the game sets you with mile stone or something like that by default. But once I picked Soundblaster EAX2 the game ran smooth.

With Win2k if you decide to use NTSF that you can not go back to a Fat or any kind. It says in the manual it can not be reversed once it is done. I need to know if this is true or not. Or is there a way to go back other then buying a new harddrive.

That was the answer I wanted to hear!! They should explain it better in the manual. I do know how to format and Ghost. So that is perfect.

I used compatibale and it installed just fine. The game starts, but as soon as I get to the screen where you choose start game,sound adjustment,display, and control, it just freezes and I have to hit ctrl-alt-del to get back to the desktop. I seen here at NT compatible in the game section that I need to use a hex editor and change some values or numbers. I don't have a clue about any of that. Can anyone just send me the one they did themselves or walk me threw it. Thanks for any help!!!

Just like to say thanks to, Xiven, and bottleneck for your advise. I will give both a try and post my results so others can get SP1 to work as will.

KT133, 1000 Thunderbird 256 PC133 RAM SoundBlaster Live Gamer Voodoo5 5500 AGP Netgear ethernet card 10/100 Two 20 gig hard drives 32X cd-rom Cd-right Intel USB 2.0 CAM Helio PDA Surround Sound Speakers Scanner Printer Lyra MP3 player hers RIO MP3 player his Digital camera WinTV video card(watch tv on pc or what ever vcr, dvd, you name it) Mic

I had WinMe and decided to get the Upgrade Win2000. Will it only upgrade for 95 and 98. So I did a clean install of win98 and then install Win2000 as my second OS on my system. It did it automatically. I just answered a few questions, hit the right keys. It installed great. Much more stable then 95,98, and WinMe. I then installed DX 8.0a and all games except for Tomb Raider 3. But I can install it on 98 and run it there. Both OS's actually run smoother then WinMe. Don't know why but it does. Now back to your question I have a KT133, 1000 Thunderbird 256 PC133 RAM SoundBlaster Live Gamer Voodoo5 5500 AGP Netgear ethernet card 10/100 Two 20 gig hard drives 32X cd-rom Cd-right Intel USB 2.0 CAM Helio PDA Surround Sound Speakers Scanner Printer Lyra MP3 player hers RIO MP3 player his Digital camera WinTV video card(watch tv on pc or what ever vcr, dvd, you name it) Mic Tons of games Giant Half Life F.A.K.K. 2 etc............many more don't have enought room. So you answer is YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!! Do it!!!