adamvjackson

Wow, a lot of extras there... I would estimate everything is at least worth $700.

Sorry if this is a bit OT, but has anyone seen a preliminiary release schedule for the final version?

Is the new 1GHz processor based on a .18 micron or .13? If it's a .13 you will likely have problems..

Are you able to read/write to the floppy from other operating systems? Does the floppy led stay lit? Have you tried replacing the cable? Just some general thoughts. Let me know how you make out.

Excellent... Thank you.

OK, so making sure that I understand this correctly: You have a 4GB drive, primary on ide1, with win98... ide2 has 2 partitions, ME, and XP.... The boot.ini below is based upon what I understand to be correct, I could be mistaken. The default OS will be 98SE. [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\="Windows 98SE" multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\="Windows ME" multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP" /fastdetect Again, I could be wrong.... Anyone else care to comment on the above boot.ini?

Seems to be a problem incorporating the proper playback of the divx 5.x.x codec... I have experienced the same problems.

Here's a good list of win2k services, what's required, and what's not. http://www.blkviper.com/WIN2K/servicecfg.htm

I personally do not use a download manager, but after consulting one of my coworkers, he recommended star download manager. http://www.stardownloader.com/index.php It's freeware, apparently free of spyware. As far as overall quality, I browsed a few shareware sites, and this seems to be fairly good.

Is there a retailer who sells the SoundBlaster Audigy line? I have an Audigy MP3 card, and it has coax digital out, and if you were to get the platinum line, it has fiber out via the audigy drive front panel connection.

When you ran partitionmagic, how were the partitions set up originally? I know that HP pc's with xp preloaded have a 'hidden' partition, usually the first partition on hdd1, that has essentially a restore cd on it. Also, xp is usually on the 2nd partition. If you altered what partition number xp was on, you will have to edit the boot.ini file to reflect which partition your xp installation is on. As a recommendation, unless you plan on having multiple operating systems on your pc, I wouldn't install bootmagic. Let me know if you need some more info, I can post a sample boot.ini file if needed, too.

Quote: Anyhow, you'll like it here then... good spot, good crew, lots of sharp folks and even have their nerdy humor moments too! Yeah, that pretty much describes me...

Interesting, so it's been updated then. I was unaware of that. AFAIK, the 'official' beta build was 2799.

Does turning down the hardware acceleration have any effect?

Do you plan on posting a link to said given mirror? Or is it just if we happen to find it...?

Are you using the public build of WMP9? I believe it's 2799....

Quote: With My Geforce 4600 - when i put on dual display with my T.V - i can not have media player or Power DVD on the TV side playing a movie, while i do something else on my actual monitor. - it just shows as a black screen - never had this issue with ATI - likely just something i am doing wrong. Actually, I think you may be wrong, I think that the tv out is disabled during dvd playback for copyright reasons. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that I had read that somewhere. Can anyone else confirm this?Thanks...

First, I really shouldn't support any pirated copys, but I had to clarify a few things here. First, windows update is not supposed to identify product ids until 10/1/02. Second, yes, you can change your key, and hopefully no one here will tell you how, you'll need to find that out yourself. Third, if you're using the corporate key, which you indicated so, the keys on the sides of cases will not work, since those are to be activated, all oem keys either require activation, or are tied to oem bios strings for activation. Best of luck, and I seriously recommend buying your next microsoft operating system.

Hello everyone, I am fairly new to these forums... I hope that I can share my expertise with Windows 2000 and most hardware problems.. I look forward to getting to know the 'regulars' and helping you solve problems! If anyone is interested, I am A+ certified, and I am working on my CCNA now...

In the folder options screen, get an open explorer screen set the way you like, and choose the option that say make all folders look like current folder.

Remove the new drivers, and install the old drivers.

Oops I had forgotten about the dllcache, that, dosfreak!

If you're concerned, you can rename your current (sp3) scsiport.sys to something like scsiport.sys.sp3 when you copy the old file over. By the way, the file is going in C:\WINNT\System32\Drivers.

Last night I extracted scsiport.sys from the w2ksp2.exe network install service pack, and I can send it to you, if you chose not to back up files for sp3 uninstall. Let me know if you want me to send it to you.

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