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Hello everyone. I am hoping some of the experts can assist me in a very frustrating problem that I am 6 days into I have just setup a "game room" with 6 new rigs ranging from an AMD 2600 to a P4 3GHz. All rigs are running XP SP1 and use the Linksys WUSB11 wireless adapters to connect to a WAP11 (v2.2). Everything is setup and running, connecting to the net with only one strange problem. Approximately every 60 to 120 secs the signal will drop from 90-100% all the way down to 20% or lower for a very brief 1-3 secs. The Linksys wirelss lan monitor will go red and I get really bad lag (obviously) for those 1-3 secs. This is very consistant and moving the WAP to within 10' with no obstacles has not helped any. I had heard from browsing the net that the XP Zero Configurator could be the problem, so I unchecked the "let windows manage config" box but that did not help. Additionally, I have tried all the following to no avail: - Updated WAP firmware (latest on linksys site) - Reinstalled drivers - Changed channels - Moved WAP very close - Wired one pc with RJ45 to eliminate my cable modem as cause - Changed SSID - Tried with and without WEP (normally will not use) - Turned off XP Zero Config I am hoping that someone has seen this or has some ideas. My son and I like to play the online games and this 1-3 sec makes it nearly impossible to enjoy the experience Thank you so much in advance. Rich

Hello, I am new to Windows 2000 and have recently built a new system (AMD 1.4 TB, 512MB RAM, Geforce 3, and 2 61GB IBM ATA100 drives) I have installed windows 2000 on the first drive as an HTFS partition and installed SP2, now I am ready to format my second drive for use and cannot figure out how. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Rich

Just to clarify...when i go into disk management, the second appears there, but it is listed as unallocated and its appears that i cannot access or format it. I assume i need to format it with an NTFS partition but cannot. Thanks again