JBoDEAN 0 Posted February 19, 2001 I have been running WIN2000 for over a year now, and I am slowly getting fed up with it. My joystick seems to cause games to pause (due to IRQ Sharing) and I am noticing my Virtual Memory giving me warnings in games that the minimum Virtual Memory is to low (when I have 256 Megs ram) Is it possible for me to installed WINME after I installed win2k? If so, how do i do this to get a dual boot? Share this post Link to post
Four and Twenty 0 Posted February 19, 2001 Alec is right there is alot that can be done to boost the performance of your system. Going back to Win Me is a pain but a dual boot setup is nice. You can install win me if you have free partition and your boot volume is fat32. you may need to boot off of the windows 2000 cd after winme is installed and do a repair to get your win2k boot loader back. ------------------ My System Dell Demension XPS T500 Triple Boot Windows 2000 Pro 2195 Windows Whistler Pro 2428 Windows Millennium Final Retail PIII @ 500 Mhz (with after market heatsink and dual fan) 512 Megs Ram Guillemot Maxi Gammer Cougar (TNT2 M64 w/ 32 Megs of RAM) Matrox Millennium PCI (w/ 4 Megs of RAM for second monitor) 3Com Etherlink XL 10/100 Ethernet Card 2 x Abit Hot Rod Pro ATA-100 RAID Controlers 2 x 12.6 Gig Maxtor Hard Disks RAID 0 (for system) 1 76.3 Gig Maxtor Hard Disk (for storage) 40X LG CD Rom Drive 100 Mb Iomega Internal Zip Drive MS Explorer Mouse MS Natural Keyboard Pro And not a single piece of software that I actually own Share this post Link to post
Brian Frank 0 Posted February 22, 2001 JBoDean: did you go to or from any 3dfx card recently since youve installed win2k. 3dfx cards seem to be very touchy about any other card, including another 3dfx card, in the system after or before it. To do a dual boot you have to have another partition on your hard drive. If you dont, get ahold of a partitioning utility like partition magic 6 and use that to set your partitions up. Then install ME on the other partition. Once youre done, run the repair option off the win2k cd (you boot off it and hit 'R' instead of 'Enter'). Then under win2k you can set the default OS by right clicking My Computer/properties/Advanced tab/starup and recovery. Its recommended that you set your virtual memory to a minimum of 1.5xram to Maximum of 2xram. You can change the IRQs, but youd have to reinstall win2k if you did that.I learned that the hard way. I really wouldnt suggest trying to change IRQs. Oh, make sure you defrag your hard drive. If possible, put your swap file (virtual memory) on a separate partition. This will keep it from getting fragmented too much, if at all. ------------------ Whaazzzupppppppppp! Asus A7V Duron 600@680 384 MB SDRAM PC133@113MHz Samsung 48x CD-ROM Toshiba 12x DVD-ROM Zip CD650 USB 4/4/6 Zip 100 USB Maxtor 20.4 GB ATA100 Voodoo 4 4500 AGP Guillemot Maxi Sound Fortissimo SIIG 3 port 1394 PCI Adapter D-Link DFE-530 10/100 NIC Creative Cambridge Soundworks FPS1000 MS Intellimouse Optical Kleer 17-inch @ 85Hz 1152x864x32 desktop Share this post Link to post
