Spyder

Hi everyone, I'm hoping someone here can help me with continued problems with my CDROMs since upgrading to XP Pro. My 8x4x32 Iomega CDRW drive is on IDE2, Master My 52x LG CDROM is on IDE2, Slave Alright..let the explanations begin! My CDRW burns at half the speed that I tell it to. I've used Nero and Roxio and I tell both to burn at 8x but the time taken is double than it should be so its only burning at 4x. My CDROM is another issue altogether. When inserting a CD, my mouse cursor doesn't flash the little CD icon beside it to say that my CDROM is accessing a disc. Most of the time, after inserting a CD, my PC freezes for about 15-20 seconds, and then it starts responding again, just in time to hear my CDROM spinning up to read the CD. These errors show in my Event Log and I'm copying everything I think is related .. Event Type: Warning Event Source: Cdrom Event ID: 51 Date: 2/2/2002 Time: 10:41:58 AM Description: An error was detected on device \Device\CdRom1 during a paging operation. Event Type: Error Event Source: atapi Event ID: 9 Date: 1/26/2002 Time: 9:51:20 PM Description: The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort1, did not respond within the timeout period. Event Type: Error Event Source: Cdrom Event ID: 7 Date: 1/15/2002 Time: 2:12:46 PM Description: The device, \Device\CdRom0, has a bad block. I've noticed also that my CDROM sometimes makes a strange...noise...while reading a disc. Its hard to describe...a high pitch wobbly sound that breaks while the laser scans the disc. Anyways, someone please help. Thank you!

I think its a Visiontek thing..I get the driver on Windows Update as well.. but I uninstalled it and went back to the Nvidia 21.83's and I'll tell you why. If you look in Device Manager, your Geforce 3 listing will now read Geforce 3 (Gateway) Gateway?? I don't have a Gateway computer..wtf is this? I did a little more poking around and noticed immediately I couldn't raise my resolution to higher than 1024x768. it had 3 whole options.. 640x480 800x600 1024x768 THAT combined with the fact that these drivers were obviously made for a pre-made Gateway computer with a Geforce 3 and didn't suit my system at all, I went back to the Nvidia drivers. Glad it worked out for you but I'm not limiting the capabilities of my system with these garbage drivers.

Brian, I couldn't agree more! At the time when all the hoopla was going on, alot of websites ran interviews with David Perez, Nvidia's PR man. (dont know if he's still there or not) At any rate, this issue was raised back then, and Perez said time and time again in every interview that the deal with 3Dfx was for their technology, and that driver and product support would still be in 3DFX's hands. Hell, I even recall a FAQ posted on Nvidia's website about it back then saying the same thing. How many times and how many different ways do they need to say this before people understand?

I'm extremely surprised that NT Compatible would post B.S. like this and contribute to complete ignorance because thats exactly what this petition is based on. If these people did their research, they'd know and understand that Nvidia has no responsibility whatsoever for 3Dfx product support in any way, shape or form. Nvidia purchased 3Dfx's "intellectual property", which means the technology behind their products, not the products themselves OR the company for that matter. 3DFX liquidated the company and dissolved the assets to shareholders. The company died. It wasn't bought out by Nvidia! It was made clear that 3DFX would be solely responsible for driver upgrades and product support. The fact that drivers haven't been supplied for WindowsXP is NOT Nvidia's problem! If these people want to point fingers, at least point the finger at the company at fault here: 3DFX!

Ok...but Remote Assistance in XP Home will allow you to take control of the other person's computer who is asking for help correct? Remote Desktop must be more robust.

MUCH appreciated! So XP Home users CAN accept a plea for help and control the other user's XP Home PC. Its all clear to me now. Thank you!

How does this work? I`m curious because everything I`ve read suggests that XP Home can ask for remote assistance but doesn`t have the capability to actually control someone elses PC (offer assistance). My understanding is that you need XP Pro to do the remote desktop. Can anyone correct me on this?

ahh I see. I gotcha now!

On my XP Pro Beta 2 machine, I tried to run a chat server though no one could connect. I actually had to add the program to XP's built in firewall utility and specify the port I wanted it to be able to use and then people could actually connect to it. I guess if the built in firewall in XP is basic, it was doing quite a good job.

I'm just curious..is the firewall built into XP not good enough?

They still have ipconfig? I thought they had taken it out.. well thank god!

msconfig is back but no winipcfg or the cmd line ipconfig.

Finally booked yourself in for the 2-Step Program eh?

Even the first build of Beta 2 had the scrollbars skinned.. want proof? Microsoft themself..take a look.. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/guide/connected.asp#ie6

Wow, didn't know that. Thanks for the info!