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OK 1 game its faster but everything else = slower, and its not like you can play UT2 atm is it.

Where abouts are you in the world?

Most 3dmark2001 benchmarks show the radeon faster yes. Find some real games and its slower.

OK, the screen will only appear if you have your PC setup to not use ACPI. Right click on desktop -> properties. Screen saver tab, click 'power' button. Should see an 'APM' tab, click it and it has 1 checkbox that says something like 'enable APM support'. Tick that, reboot and it will shut down totally rather than say it is now safe to turn off.

Just so you know, you can still get windows 2000 to turn off your computer even with ACPI disabled. Just go to the power options bit in control panel and enabled 'APM' support and it will do it. Just for future reference or if anyone else has this problem

2000 is the absolute best OS i have ever used.

I did look into water but decided it was more trouble that it was worth, knowing me i would probably kill my whole PC 8)

Im using a lovely black Dell one I know its Dell but its BLACK

I have them downloaded but not installed yet. Any major changes that i should upgrade for? I have no stability probs with the 23.11s atm.

You gotta say though that overall its alot better than 95/98/98se/ME and anyone moving from these will get a much better OS.

Vantec is good i got the swiftech mcx-478 in the end and it does an amazing job but it quite expensive

You would most probably have to do the ME 'upgrade' and then do a repair install on XP to make it the default OS again (and bring up the OS choice menu). Never done it but i would imagine thats what would happen.

So be afraid, and get ready to run Netscape Windows XP......maybe not

Pimpin, maybe your overclocking is causing the lockup ? That temp isnt gonna cause an lockup, its fine. Try and get a program called prime95, just do a search for it, it has a torture test mode and finds even the smallest instability. If it can survive 30mins-1hour of that then its stable and the problem is elsewere.

Whooo hoooo p4 is back, got the 1.9 instead cos i recon i can get a better bus speed outta it Me is happy Also case looks very nice and is also very cool and quiet.....

I agree, i would love an athlon system with the same stability as my current intel system. Dont see that happening for a while though. Also i would love to see some dual p4 action

I like messenger so it doesnt bother me that its always there. I do hate the autorun thing and the zip thing though

I dont have the game but had a quick look, all i can find is.... http://www.3dupdates.com/patches/the11thhour.html when extracted its a file called v32.exe

Hey ill give it a go

Hmmm i saw that a little while ago but i was under the impression that manufactures had put the boards on hold until it was fixed.......oh well Dont they test these things when they make the board or do they just think 'ah sod it, no one will ever notice' ;(

Well killed the p4 by messing up the heat spreader removal, and i was having a nightmare trying to get a new 1. I couldnt find anywere that had the 1.9ghz in stock and did next day delivery so i eventually had to cancel my first order for a 1.9 (which would have taken about a week!) and order a 2ghz instead that will arrive tomorrow. Wonder what a 2ghz will clock to, the 1.7 was able to run on a 125mhz bus, but i doubt the 2ghz will manage that Is that about the limit of the Willamette p4?

I know its microsoft but Internet Explorer is the best browser available i dont care what people say Maybe if the netscape browser was good i would be using it.

I went back to 2000 after using XP (the full professional version) after about a week of use. It just feels so sluggish and my fps was down in everything. Also explorer.exe actually crashed which it has never ever done in my history of using win2000 on this system, i wasnt impressed. Also, its had this same problem since i started using XP back in RC1 where the screen will just go totally grey, and i will find an instance of explorer (either files or internet) which no name and until you close that down then the screen remains grey. Very annoying. The most annoying thing about this is that i actually paid for Xp, im paying for an OS im not even using. I realise its a new OS but i mean come on, its not like its that different from 2000. Service pack please

Well i just broke my p4 trying to remove the heat spreader Had to order a new 1 (1.9ghz) to replace it I think im gonna cry

I agree, i hate rambus the company but when i bought this p4 the choice was rdram or sdram and its pretty obvious which one to choose And bladerunner, if you can show me a place in the UK with samsung rdram which is around the same price as good ddr then i would be very happy