On any machine with NT4 SP6a or prior and a GeForce 256 board (except the DDR), everytime you'll try to view a .AVI movie file with the Windows Media Player, you'll get a major crash (complete freeze)with the only remedy being a hard reboot. Sometimes the Event Viewer will show a mouse buffer overflow. But even if you try to oversize that buffer, it won't change a thing.

I doubt the input buffer has anything to do with it. Usually when a PC freezes it will still record inputs until the buffer is full after that it will beep for every extra input. It happens with win98 pratically all the time a freeze occurs.

Man just dump NT4 and go to 2000. All the multimedia in NT4 is all just quick patches anyway. Win2k was designed with multimedia support built in. (No matter what any of the looser no driver companies say - MS should have just shoved it down their throat. But instead they conceeded and made ME. Damn all 16bit OS's. When Intel forces everyone to buy the newest stuff which doesn't even work right nobody complains, but when MS does it - EVIL BILL GATES!!! or MICROSOFT MUST DIE!!! Intel's even planning their next chip to not be 8086 compatible - it's going to have to emulate it to run all our progams. They're going way beyond where our software is right now, because software vendors cry when they have to patch their programs for use in a totally 32bit environment.)

You could save yourself the money and just download the DX5 NT4 patch that used to float about, the only difference between w2k and NT4 is that w2k has the patches pre-installed (maybe thats why the install takes so long ;)) If it wasn't for the dx5 NT4 thing MS probably wouldn't have changed the file structure of DX7, and it too could have been made to work in NT4. Too bad. At the end of the day Opengl games in NT4 and w2k are just as good. Who wants DX7 anyway? Of course the patch will make your NT4 crash often, but that happens in win2k as well.

Of course you'll miss out on fat32 for NT, but you probably have NTFS, so who cares? Or you've got the sysinternals program that is just as good!

What were you talking about again?...