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  2. Posted

    I've had this old SB Live Value ever since the SB Live value was a brand new thing and in my P75 with my Voodoo1/ATI combo. I never was able to get the thing working as nice as it does in the 9x in Win2k and only in RC1 does the base drivers for it seem decent although that's without the EAX stuff.

     

    I'm hoping that before the end of the year after XP is in the stores that Creative will actually do proper, decent XP drivers (Liveware?) for the thing. I have this feeling they designed the card for Win 9x from the ground up and then tried to hack some code in 2k to get it to somewhat work after they realized that this NT core wasn't going away.

     

    I'm wondering how that Hercules Theater sound thingy is...

  3. Posted

    I'm a child of Zone Alarm simply because it just asks if you want program so&so.exe to use the Internet or not. Everything else is taken care of.

     

    I tried playing with the built in firewall with my first build and it was clear that I was missing a few steps. By turning it on my friend wasn't able to send me any files in ICQ and other problems arose that made me turn it off.

     

    Since Zone Alarm crashes and burns horribly in XP (so far at least) is there any web pages or whatever explaining how to use this built in feature for the Non-Zone Alarm challenged?

  5. Posted

    I had a zip of this thing that I got from here before and it rocked! It contained the much needed Adaptec aspi files and a method to install them without any of their stinking products.

     

    My computer died a week ago and I also lost my C: drive where the zip was sitting on.

     

    Anybody have a link? I tried searching the forums and found nothing

  8. Posted

    I got an SBLive value. I remember trading away all my old Snes games at EB when the card first came out and paid a grand total of $10 for the thing smile

     

    I used to have a world of trouble with Win2k betas as well. Eventually Creative made Liveware 3 for 2k that was still half-assed compared to the 9x quality but at least it worked.

     

    I got a 4 speaker setup. I like the 4 speakers going off, even if it's not in surround but front and rear just doing left and right. The thing's are so tiny you pretty much need both of them to get the right volume.

     

    Why does every beta MS OS can't have 4 speakers working with the SBLive?? frown

  9. Posted

    Well this is what I did with 2486:

     

    - left my 40 gig E: drive usign the HP ide plugged in

    - installed XP

    - after XP was done installing (E: was working but it would crash eventually) I went to Highpoint's site and downloaded the latest Win2k HP drivers

    - installed them

     

    I've been running for about 4-5 days now, most of them online without reboots.

     

    The only problem I got now is not with XP or the HP drivers but the TY KA7-100 bios that ignores my drive in the HP ide frown

  10. Posted

    Hey Reaper.

     

    I looked up Paul's KA7-100 site and grab those latest bios on it. Nice little Athlon logo when you boot up but the @#%^ thing doesn't find my HD that's plugged into the Highpoint IDE. I read that there's no RAID in it, but this is just a normal HD sitting in there. Good thing I kept all my older bios updates smirk

  12. Posted

    I checked Highpoints page since it's been awhile, got newer Windows drivers for 9x and 2k. It said to check your mobo manufacturer for HP bios updates. Well, the last time Abit updated the KA7-100 bios was back on 8/9/2000 frown

     

    I guess the KT7A-100 (the same thing but socket not slot A) is too different? It was updated last month

  13. Posted

    I have a Abit KA7-100 (the one with the raid) and I have a problem. After so many hours of use, XP (builds 2481 and 2485 btw) will make the hd grind and then it sounds like it's posting and then it locks up. If any data was floating around my E: drive (more on that in a sec) it's toast, gone, obliterated.

     

    I have a 20 gig for my C: and a small 3 gig for my D: as well as a DVD rom and burner. Since the Abit has 4 extra IDEs (the Highpoint) I decided to make use of it for my 40 giger on E:. Since I was doing something that involved data being read/written off E:, I'm under the assumption that the Highpoint driver in XP is sortof blarged. Before in earlier builds I just installed the 2k drivers and never had this problem. Never had this problem in either 98SE or ME.

     

    Wondering if anybody else ran into this? Also any suggestions? I'm thinking of replacing the Highpoint driver with the 2k driver and hope it doesn't bugger up

  14. Posted

    I saw the previous post about newer SBLive drivers and well that's half the story there smile

     

    Actually, the driver buggered up during the download (I'm assuming) and very shortly after it gets to the install part it stops and WinUpdate reports an error occered. Now, whenever I try to redownload this driver, the download bar is always full and it attempts to install again and it can't. It esitmates 2 minutes to download the CT470(whatever) file and while I'm on @Home, it's not that fast *cough*

     

    So the stupid thing is stuck in a temp dir somewhere. Not a problem, I'll just goto the Winupdate temp dir....hmmm, it's empty already. Crap!

     

    Anybody know where this ellusive Winupdate temp dir is? I've been searching for at least an hour now, killing every temp dir I see and no luck frown

  16. Posted

    When I tried the 1080 drivers in XP it would take somewhere between 1 to 2 mins before the start button did anything plus I noticed my DX games were running slower. Also Quake 3 and UT freeze up the OS on me after a couple mins of play (no it's not heat) with any version of vid drivers. Right now I'm using the suggested ones off of WinUpdate. Maybe I should toss on one of those Via 4in1 drivers in here? I was thinking of it but I heard some horror stories

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    I have an Abit KA7-100 and never had a problem like this. So far I'm not screaming bloody murder because this is a beta after all, and an MS beta at that smile

     

    It seems like I'm cursed. Those 1080 drivers made my DX progs slower and they won't remove themselves. Even the system backup didn't get rid of the 2 minute pause I get when I first try to hit the start button (the other problem I got) and I've noticed XP is more of a ***** to force it to look at something and install a driver from there and the vid driver on WindowsUpdate doesn't show up anymore.

     

    BLARG

     

    Considering a clean re-install of the os

  18. Posted

    I tried those drivers in hopes it would fix my problem - stuff freezing up when I'm using OpenGL, namely Quake 3 and UT (I'm using that hi res texture patch and that needs to be in OpenGL)

     

    Well the drivers look and run amazingly enough...although Q3 still froze on me for no reason. I wonder what's causing it? I know DX things don't freeze up or I would of noticed during my countless hours of playing Asheron's Call which is DX based. These 1080 drivers are the only ones I've put on my system. I haven't even bothered with the SBLive ones since I hear most people can't get them to work with v2428 anyways.

  19. Posted

    Tried using it, saying it didn't work is an understatement. The system rebooted as soon as it loaded it up. Had to go into safemode and remove all the registry bits manually since it never fully finished the install. Anybody else have this problem? I kindof like ZA with the big yes/no for proggies trying to get at the net since I had a trojan once which it stopped. That and the built in firewall, which I just turned on, seems not to be doing anything. That and I'm dumb, so the big yes/no is up my alley smile

  21. Posted

    Windows 2000 is basically NT5 and as with NT4 and others, DOS programs (esp. games) simply do not work because of the OS's design. While you might get the odd old Dos thing to work (try turning off sound and no Vesa video modes) generally they simply won't work, period.

     

    As for Mame, get Winmame and that problem at least is easily solved.

  22. Posted

    Bah!

     

    If your C: is Fat16/32 reinstall 98SE on it and then reinstall Win2k into it's own drive/partition and do with that whatever you want (Fat32/NTFS5,etc)

     

    If C: is not Fat16/32 then format it to Fat32 and install 98SE and install Win2k into it's own drive/partition etc.

     

    Not the best solution but it's the easist if you have 0% clue to what you're doing smile

  23. Posted

    Creative has had plenty of time to get their act together, the day that RC1 was finished. There wasn't going to be any major changes at that point and that was quite a ways back if I remember correctly.

     

    Well, one W2K thing I wanted is a no-go, hopefully there will be some real Asus TNT drivers that run decently but I'm not holding my breath smirk

  24. Posted

    Just UT opened.

     

    It runs fine @32bitcolour except sometimes when I'm looking at certain things (Like that light blue shaft thingy in the 3rd level of DM in the single player UT mode when you are one-on-one with that girl bot) it will crawl to a snail's pace and then go back to normal when I look away.

     

    I guess I have to wait for Asus to make some real drivers or something and just forget these ref ones smile

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