Champion_R

Has anyone ever seen a memory leak in termserv.exe and/or lserver.exe where VM usage reaches 1GB each but physical memory stays below 10MB? I know this isn't normal. Windows 2000 Server, SP4 and running in Application Mode.

The first thing I would try and do is change the setting in device manger to PIO Only and reboot. Once the system comes back up I would then try and change it back to DMA if available and reboot. If that doesn't work then I would uninstall the IDE controller in device manager then reboot and see if that helps. If that fails I would then try the drive in another computer and see if you can boot in UDMA. It is possible that the drive has been damaged and as a result it will only fucntion in PIO mode. Also try checking the event logs on boot. I've seen entries appear in the event log when drives are stuck in PIO mode.

Most modern BIOS have a boot menu which will let you select the boot drive. WIth my board, I just have to press F8 while it's POSTing and after the POST is complete, I can choose any device to boot from.

Those with 60hz issues, Google Refreshlock. It's a resident program that will automatically set the refresh rate to the maximum possible for that resolution thats supported or a custom if you wish. It works for me.

Having recently switched to an ATI graphics card, I can agree with the superior 2D performance, especially with MPEG decoding. With my old MX200, I had poor or nonexistant DXVA and my system couldn't decode 1920x1088 MPEG2 streams sent by my HD tuner card but with the Radeon, I get about 20 to 40% CPU usage on HD streams and about 4 to 10% on 720x576 PAL ones. As well as the better CPU usage, I bet a better image with all of the enhancements. TV out quality on Radeons is damn good too. The TV out on the Radeon blows the TV out on my crappy TNT2 in my other box away.

Quote: yeah that is because 2004 will be brining PCI EXpress (16x AGP) AGP 8X made stuff all difference to video card performance so I can't see PCI express making a difference. Is it just me or is putting the video card back on a shared bus a step backwards? All PCI devices share the same bus so having the video card compete for bandwidth from other devices like gigabit LAN, RAID controllers, etc a bad thing. AGP is separate from the PCI bus now so why not just raise the AGP spec again?

Quote: I may looking at getting another video card though, I'm not overly impressed with the onboard TV-out signal - diagonal lines and "crackles" all across the picture - any suggestions anyone? I readt that Radeons and Maxtrox cards have the best TV out. If you have a HDTV or a TV that can take component video in, get yourself a Radeon which supports the conponent video dongle for the best TV out.

Has anyone got Overlays working in Windows Server 2003? If so, what video card are you using and drivers.

FTP isn't secure. Passwords are sent in clear text IIRC. Also don't think VNC traffic is encrypted. Remote Desktop or terminal services traffic is encrypted. Anyways, what he wants is a web server. Just run something like IIS properly secured and locked down. Then only allow port 80 through to the machine which is running the webserver.

The brand of mainboard is a mute point if the chipset on it is crap. My last system had a Gigabyte board with some VIA rubbish chipset (693A I think). IDE controllers MAX out at 20MB/sec and it is an ATA66 controller configured correctly. Also using both IDE channels at the same time caused the CPU usage to goto 100%. PCI performance was rubbish too. My current system uses an ECS board with the SiS 735 chipset. It's far better. Proper IDE controllers and a real PCI bus.

Quote: Thanx for the input. So What you are saying Is I should be looking for either an Nvidia Geforce 4 FX 5600 or Nvidia geForce 4 FX 5700 128MB AGP 4/8x ? (note the workding: GeForce 4...) Yep. I reckon thats the way to go if you wanna stay with nVidia. P.S. It's just GeForce FX not GeForce 4 FX

Quote: 4.) Buying just a small "upgrade" card is out of the question. I had bought a GeForce 4 MX 440 thinking I am UPGRADING from a Geforce 2 MX 400. This is obviously not true. I need a good solid reliable and powerful card (see number 1 above). A GeForce4 MX is a decent upgrade from a GeForce2 MX 400. The gf4 MX is like a Gf2 Ultra with higher clock speed. That aside, out of the nVidia cards a FX5600 would be a good buy for your system. The FX5200 would max out before the XP2000 would. Also the new FX5700 out which deserves consideration. I think this post should satisfy all your 4 requirements: game play, Win 2k support, Linux support and Gf4 mx to FX5600 or FX5700 is a significant upgrade. P.S. AGP 8x is virtually useless. All operations are done from the video cards local memory not AGP memory. Also benchmarks back up what I say about AGP 8x. No performance gain if you have it and no loss if you don't.

When I use the Overlay mixer to watch video, the colours are totally stuffed but if the VMR9 mixer is used, they display correctly. Anyone know how to access the colour controls for the overlay mixer?

You need a server OS running on one box to even make a domain controller.

Anyone solved the overlay problem with w2k3 yet?