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What's this "paying for software" bit? I'm unfamiliar with this concept If you want a long game, play Deus Ex. OMG, that game had so many areas to explore.

Make sure you have the latest drivers for your video chipset. Grim Fadango had some funky grafx problems with the early 2k detonator drivers on my system. And definately get the patch; there's a puzzle that can't be beat if your comp is 300+ mhz.

Maybe you've got a faulty RAM chip.

Ok here's my situation. My 2k box is connected to the internet via a token ring connection. I have an ethernet LAN setup in my room, which connects to my Linux box. I've configured the 2k box to gateway for the Linux box, and the Linux box can browse internet just fine. Now here's the tricky part: The Linux box is running Apache web server. I can see its website from the 2k box by going to 192.168.0.192. How do I configure 2k so that when someone connects to its IP(148.100.XXX.XXX), it forwards port 80 to the linux box?

Nevermind, I finally figured out how to keep the linux box's IP constant. Had to use static IP in netconfig. Works great now! (If only horribly slow )

Woohoo! It worked! An interesting note: If I try to view my own IP addy from my 2k box or the Linux box, it'll give the Linux box a new IP address. Wonder why this happens... Is there anyway to make the Linux box's IP permanent?

I swear by norton corporate 7.5. I'm so sick of cleaning up the mess McAfee leaves on the college's PC's. I think they use the same programmers that Via does...

When my PIII 733 doesn't cut the mustard anymore, I think I'll get one of those Tyan Tiger MP boards and run dual Athlon MP's. They should be up around 2Ghz by then

I tried this tweak, and while normal windows programs did seem a bit snappier, it caused noticible stuttering in games that were previously silky smooth (Alice, Max Payne, Mechwarrior 4, etc)

Only the Winmodems (which almost all PCI modems are) will give you grief. A hardware PCI modem works quite nicely.

I've got a Zoom 2920 PCI hardware modem. Works quite nicely ~$70 I should also point out that of the dozen or so modems I've had in various computers, every non-Zoom modem has been fried by lightning strikes. My 14.4, 33.6, and 2 v.90 Zoom modems all still work to this day.

I uninstalled my soundblaster live and replaced it with my new Audigy OEM. Used the drivers that came on it's CD, and it installed fine. Music sounds much improved on this card (especially .mod's with 16bit samples), but I'm having serious issues. Problem is, when you use something that has 3D audio, or uses MIDI, you HORRENDOUS crackling, and popping. The EAX mine demo plays fine until the bird starts flying behind you, then the card crackles horribly. The beta UDA drivers from Reactor Critical don't install properly, and crashed my system, but I tried replacing the SB Audigy Emu10k2 driver with the UDA driver. That solved the crackle/pop issue, but I can't use 3d sound or run Audio HQ. Changing Via drivers aren't really an option, because last time I tried the 4.34's, they nuked my comp and I had to reinstall windows. Tried changing slots, removing all unnecessary cards, etc. No difference. Any ideas?

Found the problem! Card doesn't like master volume control up near the max. Lowered the volume by 2 notches, and card now works as advertised! Now I just have to get around to moving out of the slot next to my geforce2...

I'm thinking about getting an Audigy OEM to replace my SBlive. I assume it's the same board as the retail Audigy, but w/o software? Any crippling defects I should know about?

You need to copy the files over to the hard disk, then run the SP2 command to patch the files. You need to download the appropriate boot info, then make a bootable ISO.

Ordered mine last night

Yes, XP is just 2000 with a face lift, but it should help us 2k users. Some companies *hack,cough,cough* Creative *cough* have been making crappy WDM drivers because the NT kernal is "a business O/S" XP will make the NT kernal mainstream. Win95 should have been true 32-bit instead of a jumbled amalgomation of 16 and 32bit code. The 9x series got less and less compatible with DOS (and less stable) with each successive version.

My system is doing something very odd. If you boot normally, the blue bar only goes up half-way and disk activity stops. Just stays hung. If I press F8, then do a logged boot, it boots up fine. Any ideas? If not, is there a way to force it to automatically do logged boots?

NTFS is the way to go. I use it on every machine where I install 2000.

Hmmm... I've got 512MB RAM, and I have very little disk activity on boot

54.1 megs for me! Holy sh!t... it was only 10mb after the reformat in late July!

When I try to apply either the 1.5 or 2.0 patches, I get error message 036. Any one know why?

Patch comes up with error msg: "Error code descriptions can be found in "PR1 readme.rtf " 0036 Unable to complete patch."

Help! I'm in the same boat too. Where'd you get the newer version?

Use the Via 4-in-1 patch, version 4.29a The 4.3x series is very buggy, and causes system crashes.