blakerwry

The difference between the catagory of cables is that cat 5 has more bandwidth than cat3, cat 5e has more than cat5, cat 6 has more than 5e, etc... the more bandwidth you have, the more data it is possible to send over the line. I find it likely that ron is using high quality cat5, that is probably equal to cat5e (but not certified to be cat5e) in bandwidth. there is no other real difference in the wiring, same sheilding, same twisted pair... just better materal and stricter standards.

sounds completely software related to me..(hardware being set to disable in winblowz..... how can this not be software? atleast partially?) i've seen it happen many times... although not repeatedly... i'd try what was already listed... are there any common links(are these NICs identical?) same copy of windows? same restore disk or something?

if rebooting the modem resolves the problem and the computer was connected to the router (*not* the modem) then how could it be the computer?

can you hit the pause button on the keybaord so you stay at the bootup screen? then adjust the screensize and position as normal using the monitor controls... when done hit enter to continue... when you boot, if the screen size is adjusted wrong then you'll need to switch to another refresh rate (a refresh other than what your DOS screen uses) this would be a limitation of your monitor if you have to switch refresh rates in windows toa different refresh rate than that of BIOS or DOS. it is a lmitation in how your monitor stores the configuration data for manual adjustments.

can you just remove the line entirely?

it's changable.. download x-setup... all the reg hacks you can get in windows all in one easy to use gui interface... www.xteq.com

yes, that is a very handy time saver in linux and I'm glad they integrated it into windowsNT.

i still use and like NT4(on a daily basis), you have to remember it was competing with win95 and OS2.. and on the server front there really was nothing comparable for light servers. Clearly better at the time. But win2k is a definate upgrade... for multimedia usage, I cannot even begin to fathom doing it on winNT4... win2k would ujst be much better for your purposes. btw, my winNT server is heading closer and closer to 1 year of uptime, so I don't think that there are any instabilities once you get sp3 or higher on winNT4.