NTGEEK

I could write it all out for you, but just look here, someone already did the work: http://www.msfn.org/win2k3/ I have the same board. Follow these instructions and things should magically start working. Your biggest problem here is all the services which are turned off by default.

I first tried to solve this by recompiling kernel and hardcoding USB support. This completely broke USB. Then I did what I should have done all along, I knew from looking in the kernel there were two modules, one the "standard" and the other "JE" which seems unpreferred for some reason. I looked around and googled upon how the modules are named, the standard is called "usb-uhci" while the unpreferred JE is just called uhci. I checked in modules.conf and found this line: "probeall usb-interface usb-uhci" and changed it to "probeall usb-interface uhci" rebooted.... and narry a hang since....

I noticed this too... I think you might want to try running the restore command after hitting F1 on the intitial screen. This MIGHT work, but I doubt it. :x Every Linux distro I have worked with has it's own quirks and each release is very different from the previous, hopefully you made a boot disk, this is likely going to be the only solution. I personally am loving it, the mounted NTFS partitions, the hardware support. I had some major problems with 9, The XFREE 4.2 kept hanging, I switched to the NVIDIA kernel and solved that. It took 3 series of locking up the system on detecting my USB PHOTOSMART P1000 printer, but it eventually found it, through persistence. (My first attempt at installing hung because of this printer, I hope a little more work goes into it in the next few years, I'm sure it will.) Can't wait to get home and play some more with it. So far, this is the first release where everything on my system worked without great pains.

I think you may have a virus... just my 2 cents... there have been many problems with the live but never with the installshield executable for the live.

Lagaff:D Yes it was the bios and I had to hit the space bar.

OK.... S.M.A.R.T. is one of the coolest things to happen to drives in a long time. Let me give you an example over the last week of my life. Sometime on thursday night my home server BSOD'd while I was sleeping. I noted the ide.sys was the cause and this gave me reason to be a bit worried. Upon reboot, the Atlas 10K2 notified me it was failing and to make a backup as soon as possible. SO I booted into XP and backed up, figuring "better safe than sorry" but figuring it was just some sort of "glitch" related to the BSOD. Well... I was wrong. Friday morning the hard drive started "Screaming" with that bansaw, gonna tear your house down, bad bearings at 10,000 rpm sound. Good thing I made that backup. The point being is that S.M.A.R.T saved my data and gave me fair warning before the drive actually failed. The next hard part was to get the thinged RMA'd through quantum. Umm... Who the heck am I supposed to call for support now. Lesse' quantum HD division got bought by who? oh yeah, Maxtor, who got bought by who? Western digital. Dang, I shoulda bought an IBM... looks like Maxtor support was still in business and I got an RMA.

You wouldn't happen to have an IFEEL mouse by any chance would you? Thats what did it to me.

Lets see those specs.... Have you tried moving it to a different pci slot? Let's see those motherboard specs and pci positions for your hardware. I personally have no problems with my audigy. Though I always had problems with my sblive but none to whine about

Hmmm.... I notice a lot missing regarding the hardware setup! How much memory were they using? Motherboards implemented? Hard drives used? memory implementation (ddr, rdram,sdram,etc..)? The SMP systems are assuredly using scsi as opposed to ide. This Might explain the discrepancy if the bencnhmark is I/O bound(I personally notice ide I/O slightly slower on my system as opposed to scsi.) If the problem was due to the gui interface, what graphics hardware did they use? I'll bet testing on any of the nvidia optimized drivers may have made a difference due to the gui layer slowing some graphic hardware down (not pointing fingers, but if it's ATI or intel graphics neither have been properly optimized for windows2000 let alone XP!)What would have happened if they turned off all the advanced graphic features? (as an aside, moving from trident onboard graphics to the visiontek 5864 pci worked wonders on speed) Office XP testing! OMG! is anyone using or implementing office XP after all the bad flack and high upgrade price? I personally see no performance hit between XP and 2000 What I do see is a sleep mode that works. Lots of bells and whistles. And a stable platform that is rock solid. (except for that darn Easy cd coaster creator problem I am having... roxio?) [size:18]8[/color] Courier blue

Are you by chance running easy cd coaster creator. If you have it installed remove it or set your cd burner to pio mode. This has been the most notable reason for IRQL_LESS_THAN_OR EQUAL messages on my machine running XP. I patiently await Roxio's "fix".

Um... I installed EZCDC with a custom install excluding directcd (you don't really need it anymore right!) and take two. No problems.

Installing my usb p1000 as a 940c seems to get printing working at least. I tested 2400 x 1200 photo printing as well as 300 x 300 and 600 x 600 and it all seems to be working. A bit of banding on photo printing but its almost indiscernable from the actual drivers under win2k. The only down side is the inability to read my flash cards through the printer. Oh well. I can read em through the nikon so its no biggy for now. If this is the only issue I have with RC1 then I'll take it. Sure beats the BSODs with NVidias drivers and the no login with SBLIVE when Win2k was in beta.