Yarlen

Greetings all, I've been having problems uploading large files (greater than 1MB) to FTP servers in Windows 2000 Pro SP2. The upload will start, but then I'll get dropped with an error that the data connection was closed or that the connection was reset by peer. This occurs on more than one FTP server and only during uploads - I can download large files without any problems. Also, this problem does not occur using my Win98 SE partition. Any ideas for what's going on and how to fix it is very appreciated. :-) Thanks in advance, Yarlen

Greetings all, For the past several months as CD-based forms of copy protection (i.e., SecuROM, SafeDisc) have become an unfortunate industry standard, I've been unable to get any games to run under Windows 2000 Professional (SP1 or 2). Here's what happens: I can install a game fine, but when I go to run the program, it won't load. If I use a no-CD hack, games will run perfectly - so I know it has to be something related to the copy protection check. I have done some pretty extensive testing on this, spoken at length with people in the industry but to no avail on a solution. So, here I am. Here's my system specs - all drivers and BIOSes are fully up to date, and programs/OS patched - also, I am not overclocking anything on my system or running any special programs: Intel PIII 933 Mhz processor, 256 MB PC133 SDRAM, ASUS CUSL2 motherboard (no onboard audio/video), TDK veloCD CD-RW (note: I have also tried 6 other CD/DVD drives, none of them resolved the issue), nVidia GeForce 3 64MB video card (v14.20 drivers), Hercules Game Theater XP (v2.02 drivers). If anyone has any ideas or suggestions for how to resolve this issue, your help would be most greatly appreciated. Thanks, Yarlen

Hi Rune, Thanks for your comments. I'm playing new games and I'm not having any luck at all, but I've gone back to using no-CD hacks again so I'm getting by. I heard back from a couple of my programmer friends in the industry and they told me that 90% of the programmers they know in the industry detest CD copy protection because it doesn't work. It's the corporate managers that are taking Macrovision's line of crap hook, line and sinker.

This is very disappointing. I'll keep working on this within the industry and see if I can't get something done about it. Thanks for the info!

Hmm, just tried it but it didn't work.

M4Carbine understood my problem correctly - I'm using retail CDs, not copies. I've already tried disabling DMA, though, and that had no impact.