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kick ***, thanks for your help. rock on ds

Is there any way to include a background image when you have to log into win2K? I am looking for the effect as changing winnt256.bmp under NT4.0. Unfortunately under win2K the winnt256.bmp file is the background image shown during bootup, which is protected under system file protection. ds

Had nothing but problems from day one with this card, at first it was annoying lockups, but the first driver update for win2K fixed that. Then the most annoying thing was the crackling in the audio playback that people have noticed. I just wrote this off as an annoying "cost of doing business" with win2K and perhaps something wrong with my setup and to tell you the truth I didn't feel like spending the time to figure it out. It is amazing what you will learn to live with. All this changed when I read my first review of the Hercules Game TheatreXP. Turns out my situtation wasn't unigue at all. Two weeks later the X-Gamer was sitting in my peice parts bin and the Game Theatre was installed in the main machine. Keep in mind that I am still using an ABIT BE-6 II motherboard, can't see a compelling reason to switch other then a faster processor. I think the problems with the VIA chipsets and the SBLIVE go beyond just pointing fingers at either Creative Labs or VIA. The Russian Roulette people play with the 4in1 drivers go to show that building a rock solid chipset is a heck of a lot harder then people think. Personally I'll never buy another VIA based motherboard in my life, spent a month of my life dealing with a bad K133A based board, before I turned it into a frisbee.

No problemo, at least one person got it to work and it doesn't seem like you had to jump through any hoops to have it work. At least this makes me want to take a much closer look at my installation procedure.

The drive works fine as a boot device, I use it all the time. I take it you were able to install WinXP with the LS120 as your floppy drive? Maybe the WinXP installer got all freaked out since I booted to the install disc instead of booting to the LS120 drive and running the WinXP installer from the DOS prompt. If this is the case it would seem incredibly gay, but then again nothing surprises me anymore. What really bothers my is that I can install my LS120 drive no problem once the OS is installed, but I can't use it as a floppy device during installation. Personally I suspect that for what ever reason Microsoft assumes that no one uses these drives as a replacement for their floppy drives and therefore their installer doesn't recognize it as a floppy device.

Has anyone here successfully installed windowsXP using the LS120 as their A drive? I know the drive works fine, since i am currently using it in Win2000, but when I tried to install WinXP it told me that it didn't detect a floppy drive. The reason I need the drive is that I have to install my Promise RAID adapters drivers during installation. You know, press F6 to install 3rd party SCSI and RAID adapters. When it gets to the point where it is supposed to ask you to insert the floppy drive with the adapters drivers, the winXP installer gives me an error message that no floppy drive was detected. Now I can take the cover off the machine and install a floppy temporarily, but that seems like a colossal pain in the ole bunghole. This defeats the whole purpose of owning a LS120 drive. This would seem like a major oversite on Microsofts part if their OS installer doesn't recognize the LS120 drive during installation. One more question, if I do a clean install of WinXP on a machine that already has win2000 installed will it create a boot menu so I can choose which OS I want to use? Similar to what win2000 does if you do a clean install from an existing win98 installation. I already set up a 6 GB partition to mess around with WinXP without having to worry about screwing up my current win2000 installation. If things crap out on my I'll just reformat the entire winXP installation and start all over again, now you know why I am so anxious to get this LS120 drive working. Any help is welcome rock on ds Here are my system specs, if this really makes any difference ABIT BE6-II, flashed to latest BIOS (not version 2.0 board) P3-700 256 MB PC133 Soundblaster LIVE Plextor UltraPLEX [i am bootin the Win installation to this drive] SIIG SCSI adapter PlexWriter (4x) Imation LS120 drive GeForce DDR, ASUS pure (2) IBM 75GXP DTLA-307030 30 GB drives Promise ULTRAtrack100 RAID adapter 3COM etherlink 10/100 network card