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Run your webserver on port 8080 or something if you don't want to use another service. People would just have to do http://blah.com:8080 to get to it. Any of the other services would require you do to the same thing, they would just redirect port 80 to port 8080 for example on your home machine.

You should be able to check by visiting the hardware website for the board. If it's anything recent it should have usb 2.0 in it no problem.

I've been playing just fine using dx7 mode although I have a GF TI4600. Specs are: AMD 2700XP Asus A7N8X Deluxe Nforce2 GeForce 4 TI 4600 Dets 42.01 WinXP Pro w/SP1 Dx6 mode crashes nv_disp.dll sometimes so I don't use that and opengl works, but looks horrible. Currently they have a map bug with dx7 and displaying the map. Game plays fine though. I'm almost done too.

Play Planescape Tormnet. That was by far one of the best ever.

Yep, I've had both in my computer. If you have the IDE Raid, you'll have issues booting off the SCSI Cdrom. I basically just got into my Adaptec 2940U2 bios and turn the bios off but enable the scan. That way, the bios doesn't load and it doesn't try to boot. Works like a champ.

I did the install but the Splash Screen wouldn't display. I manually ran the setup and then found the .exe to startup the game. Can't recall what it is offhand since I've been playing BG2 so much lately, but I did startup the game, create a single char party and move around in the game and everything seemed to work ok.

Did you reapply the reg hack after you installed the drivers? Also, did you install the latest VIA AGP Drivers from http://www.viatech.com ? I personally ditched my VIA stuff and went intel. No hacks, no crashes, no problems.

I've yet to hit a game that doesn't run on Windows 2000. I tend to play mostly rpg/strategy games. Just installed Baldur's Gate 2 and 'Wizards and Warriors'.

Just some recommendations on my setup. I use a Promise IDE Raid Controller card and stripe to IBM 30GB 75GXP Desktars. Unless you can raid your scsi drives, you are going to kick ass in the peformance aspect if you stripe the ide drives. It's really cheap compared to the same single drive scsi solution and you can tons more performance. Price per performance is totally worth it. I think my Win2k install took about 7 minutes from start-finish. 2 IBM 30GB Deskstars + Controller = $293ish, I got them from buy.com using coupons from www.techbargains.com (great site) so each drive was about $123 and the controller was 60ish. That same price range would get you a scsi controller and a 9gb 10k drive. You get almost 7 times as much storage and tons more performance and the added benefit of a very quiet machine.

More info. what drivers are you running? what hardware? motherboard/etc.

Not everyone picks up on the search feature right away. I personally don't mind answering a question again cause it makes me look smart

Oh, I understand and have another system that I goof around with, but when I want to sit down and play some games I'll conform and use what works without any effort. I enjoy tweaking my systems and having fun, but there are times and places for that stuff.

Cheap memory is usually just that. I'd recommend going for the "better" quality stuff like the Mushkin. It runs a little faster in memory tests and it's tons more stable.

Man, that is a lot of effort. I just returned my VIA chipset stuff and got a CUSL2 mobo and bam everything stable right out of the box with the latest drivers and no tweaking at all needed. Your way seemed really long and tedious

Well, it's not secure, but you could "hide" all the files as well. I'm not sure that would get the "smart" users, but the average layman would be clueless. Just do a attrib /s -r *.* or something on the directory.

Right click on the drive and pull up the properties. Not the sharing tab, but the security tab. Remove the groups you don't don't want to have NTFS access to your "good" files. Be careful you don't look the admin out of the system files or anything silly like that. I think by default drives have everyone turned on for permissions which is kinda silly.

Actually Microsoft recommends you have Plug and Play OS set to "OFF". Not on. What kind of hardware are you talking about? Are you using the LiveDrive as well? Make sure that connection is set firmly. Does the SB Card appear on the irq setting screen when the machine POSTS?

Take a look at http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q151/2/47.asp?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0 That is a pretty good support article on how to correct the kind of problem you are getting. Dual booting usually causes where things to happen so I tend to avoid it. I use Norton Ghost or DriveImage or make images. I don't really have the need for 98SE since any game I play runs fine on Win2K.

What kind of motherboard are you using?

I have a FastTrak 100 that's running very well in Wink2. I have 2 IBM 30GB Deskstar 75GXP striped together. The performance I get totally destroys my single cheetah drive setup that I had before. I've gotten 50-55MB/s sequential writes with 60-65 MB seq reads for a total setup price of maybe $350 which happens to be the same price as a single Cheetah 9GB drive at like 3-4 times the performance and about 5 1/2 times the storage. Asus CUSL2 - Bios 1001A 3 128 Megs Mushkin Rev 2 Memory FastkTrak 100 Adaptec 2940U2 Kenwood 52X Scsi 2 30GB IBM Deskstar 75GXPs Hercules Prophet GTS 2 64 Meg Video Card

Again as I have posted on a few other topics here, I had a VIA Chipset that was riddled with tons of issues with gaming and Win2k. My solution was to put in an 815E chipset from Intel with the same hardware. (I had Asus motherboards and Abit motherboards for my VIA Chipsets). All my problems completely went away once I made this switch. Games that were crashing at rock solid now upon hours of play (Deus Ex is a great example. It would last maybe 1-2 mins on the VIA Chipset). I'm using the latest Det 3 drivers with the SB Live Platinum and have yet to get a single blue screen or crash. I hate to say, but conform and go for Intel if you want a rock solid system.

Have you ever successfully played Deus Ex on an VIA Chipset motherboard in Win2k? I've yet to last more then about 45 seconds with a VIA Chipset when the Intel 815E I have runs rock solid. This is the 64 Meg flavor of the GTS2 as well.

I personally would just junk it and get a SB Live considering Aureal went out of business. IE, no new drivers ever.

Hmm, not sure if this is what were you were looking for, but you can try getting a new fan setup from somewhere like http://www.millisec.com I have a few of the GlobalWin fans from there and they are _awesome_ compared to the crappy fans that come with the boxed Intel set. Also, they were really fast on the shipping and price was right.

My experience so far has been anything with the VIA chipset has been not good. I've had quite a couple of game issues with the AGP Driver that VIA puts out and even when the new Detonator drivers came out, they had to quickly issue a fix for that so it would run properly. Since then I've gone to an Intel 815E chipset and put in a p3-866 coppermine and I've yet to have a crash or one single problem in any game I've run. Just my experience anyway.