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    Upgrading W2K to XP2446

    Thanks Hit and Vampyr, now I know it can be done and can keep on wasting my time on the exercise. Maybe I nuke out a few suspect drivers (soundblaster to start with) and try again next weekend. H.
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    Upgrading W2K to XP2446

    Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by EddiE314: most people WILL agree not to ever upgrade an OS.</font> Sure, me too, but apparently most guys in Redmond don't agree as they build their OS with that option. Seriously, I do a fresh install fairly often, and for a "permanent" system I would recommend anyone to do so. Still I wonder wtf 2446 refuses to upgrade and if an upgrade has worked for anyone ? H.
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    Win2K and Abit KA7 - IRQL BSOD

    I have same Mobo/ same bios and no problems. Don't know what that BSOD means, but here a few suggestions for next install: - You are talking about a clean install, aren't you ? - Don't overclock (before the system is stable, that is) - "untweak" the system: lower your memory clockings in bios to conservative ones - Take off the fast writes and 4x from your graphics card, lots of people report trouble with VIA chipset and 4x. The best way is to revert the whole bios back to factory settings. -leave the creative drivers out (w2K gives you sound) See if you get a stable system with the above, not installing any extra drivers etc for devices that already work with the native W2K drivers. When you get a stable system, back it up (best way is Drive Image or Ghost) and add the tweaks one at a time BTW, the new 4in1 1.29 drivers released yesterday or old ones (non beta) might work better. You must have them ready on a floppy and install them (twice) when the installation asks for them. H.
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    Hard drive RPM?

    A HD is not a motorbike! Speed of a HD is dependant on many factors, rpm beeing only one of them. For example HD:s come with various amounts of cache, 512k to 2MB on standard IDE drives. This can affect performance a lot. The number you want to look at judging HD:s is the MB/sec average transfer rate, but how that translates on your PC with your apps is a different story. In most tests, the fastest HD:s are the 7200RPM ones, but I've seen a number of tests where *some* of the 5400 drives being faster than *some* of the 7200 ones. It's anyhow clear that more Rpm could be faster, everything else beeing equal. No, there is not going to be a huge difference between 5400 and 7200rpm, but propably a bigger one than between ATA66 and ATA100, which many say is only a theoretical one. That said, if you are buying a drive because you want more space, I'd still recommend to buy an 7200 rpm ATA 100, the price is not really that much higher (than 5400/ATA66). If you again want a faster system and are looking at the HD being the bottleneck you've got two options; RAID (smaller gain) or SCSI (big bucks). Or both, by all means. H.
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    Upgrading W2K to XP2446

    Brian, sorry for being unclear, but my problem isn't really about how to conduct an upgrade, but thanks for the comments anyhow. What I'm trying to figure out is why and what kills my attempt to upgrade a specific W2K system with XP 2446, when a clean install of XP2446 on the SAME box works just fine. That sort of excludes hardware and partitioning problems. Why is it XP is so picky about installed software, before the real install even starts? Or maybe some of my drivers are incompatible. Or whatever, time for bed now. [This message has been edited by Dirty Harry (edited 12 March 2001).]
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    Upgrading W2K to XP2446

    Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by jdulmage: oh god, and you wonder why nobody posted back? hehe </font> Hardly time for that, it took you all of 27 minutes to post back. Sure,a clean install of an OS is the way to go, and for a "permanent" install I'd choose that route too.But still, an upgrade should work, at least to some degree as long as it is offered as an option in the setup. When you just want to test out a new beta, it is kinda practical not having to install a lot of apps too. At least it would be easier that way. And it worked with several W2K betas I recall... I'm still curious if it has something to do with the dual boot to DOS 7 or my hardware, anyone out there who has succeeded with a upgrade - pls post. H.
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    Windows 2000 installation and promise ata 100 problem

    Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by aegris: I tried to provide the 3rd party drivers for the promise controller but i still get the inacessable boot device error msg. </font> What you mean, where and when did you try ? During the W2K setup, it gives you an option to load these from a disk. You should have the (newest) drivers on a floppy and feed the PC at that stage. Are you set to boot from the correct drive? Are the settings in the promise bios OK? H.
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    Why wast your money

    Hey, I recycle my CPU's /MoBo's. That's how I ended up an even happier man with a a LAN. But honestly, it is not because it is necessary or that it makes sence, it is that it is a hobby, I like tinkering with the stuff. Isn't that a reason good enough? H.
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    Printer Sharing Problems

    You say you have done the obvious; installed (and re-installed) the driver on both PC:s through Start-settings-printers-properties on both machines and enabled sharing on your main PC:s printer properties sheet ? Sorry, that's all that comes to mind, for me it worked with that. H.
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    winxp 2428 bug

    Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by jdulmage: anyways, I am going to continue doing this until my posts are not snapped at anymore, </font> Why do I vision a fish-faced fat boy who had no frinds in school ? A guy who bought a puppy that immediately ran away? H.
  11. How about this cool "feature" in XP (beta). Anybody heard of this ? "If ANY error occurs while the OS is running, the OS connects your internet connection and sets up an IP logging session with the main MS server. At which point, the server gives a time to answer an IP call. Once this happens, a HUMAN technician logs into your computer, and the OS lets them." check out this thread http://www.the-ctrl-alt-del.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000203.html H.
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    Why wast your money

    JMD wrote: "Can anyone tell me why a person would pay all that extra money to up grade from a 933 prossessor to a 1 gig?" Yes: its fun, its a hobby. Can anyone tell me why a person would pay all that extra money to upgrade their cars with polystyrene spoilers? Or pay all that money to go to looking at people playing with a ball? Or pay all that money to collect stamps? The one who dies with the most toys wins! H.
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    Getting rid of Desktop Icons ??

    If you don't like Vipers solution (which works OK,) use TweakUi or use x-setup (both freeeware) H.
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    interesting problem

    Aflash definately must be the correct version, like Ronin says, check that first. It's a while since I updated an Asus bios(P2B-F about a year ago) now, but I vaguely recall that this situation was mentioned somewhere on their web pages, as an issue especially with beta bios. The solution then was to ignore it, which I did and it worked. This is of course not a guarantee that it works in your case. I'd suggest you spend a few bucks (about 10-20$)for an extra bios chip before you try. Alternatively, locate a shop that has a chip flasher, and make a backup disk of your current bios file before you try. That way you can revert fast if things turn ugly. H.
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    Will XP replace 2000?

    Widow, that was one of the best posts I've seen around here in a long, long time. H.
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    L2 cache....is it worth it???

    Please fill me in: Why would you want to disable L2 in Windows 2k ? How (where) do you disable it in W2K ? H.
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    Whistler Beta lets MS technician connect

    Yep, right so, but it's still good to be aware of it. I'm not particularely interested in having a bored MS technician digging around my system without my knowledge. H.
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    Curious if windows XP will be worth to upgrade to

    Wow, that was a lot of hard fact arguments coming from the same guy who stated "for raw speed, XP does just as fine as 98/Me on my machine and i'm sure when it's done, it'll be that way." H.
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    Can't Scandisk in Win2k... HELP!

    BTW, don't cross-post please. Just noticed that you've posted the same topic in the tips & config board. See my comments there http://216.234.186.180/ubb/Forum6/HTML/000339.html
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    Scandisk Just Not Working in W2k!!!

    BTW, don't cross-post please. Just noticeed that you've posted the same thread in the apps thread. http://216.234.186.180/ubb/Forum2/HTML/001613.html
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    Scandisk Just Not Working in W2k!!!

    Heh, mine does the same and altough annoying I've considered it to work as designed. I beleive that the exclusive access is to be understood so that Windows is using some system files and scandisk is the one needing exclusive access, not the user. Just schedule the scan and boot, and the scan will run. The other option is to run chkdsk /f from the command prompt, but that requires a reboot too. If somebody knows a way around it please post ! H.
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    Curious if windows XP will be worth to upgrade to

    The activation scheme s-u-c-k-s, big time. Who knows how well it will handle not yet available hardware? I have better things to do than to call MS and ask for forgivness everytime I put in a new card in my PC. What's next - you have to pay a fee per document in Word or connect to and pay Intel if you manage to overclock your CPU ? RattDawg is right to the point, I also have 3 PC:s on a LAN and think it should be (almost) legitimate to install it there. Sure, crcks will take care of that but still. Besides, say I had a laptop and a desktop not used at the same time, that would certainly make it feel legitimate to only pay once for the OS. But back to the topic - is it worth an upgrade ? I didn't really see that much new and exciting in it. (2410 tested, don't tell me there is 400 MB of new code since then) Maybe I'm missing something but to me it appeared to be pretty much same silly PR stuff as the W98-Wme upgrade crap. Luna might be cool but hey, there are skins galore as shareware, Next start being the best IMHO. What else - boot a few seconds faster for 200 bucks ? 3 fps more in Quake, or what is this faster we really are talking about ? This said I have to admit I'll propably buy a copy anyhow just because its newer than W2k. But that is entirely because of a rational defect I have. H.
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    Boot Loop

    Here a few suggestions to fix or pinpoint the trouble: Pull the sound card and see if that helps. Have you tried to revert to the last known good configuration (recovery console)? Can you boot with an good old-fashioned DOS boot disk ? Did you have the boot drive scanned just before this happened- do you find .chk files (saved from a fix of bad sectors/crosslinked files)In that case they contain data that isn't availabe anymore, possibly system files As you cant't get to safe mode I'd also look for a hardware problem; testing memory chips one by one, possibly loose cards, etc. Have you touched bios and perhaps, maybe, possibly switched something accidently? Have you updated any drivers or installed anything just before this happened ? What was the last thing you did before thsi occured? As a last try you could do a system file restore from the W2K cd. Let us know whatever or whoever it was H. PS. Once long ago (W3.1 I think it was)I got myself in an endless loop by trying to make a batch file of proggies always starting when windows started. Worked fine but the file was called startup.bat and contained the command startup. Sometimes the weirdest things have the simplest causes.
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    Quick question about changing motherboards

    Oh, forgot to mention that the OS is W2K... H.
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    Quick question about changing motherboards

    Whenever I got me a new mobo, I was to eager to try it out to bother with a fresh install of the OS. If it doesn't work to boot up with the old install you haven't really lost anything, then you just shrug, say "**** happens" and do the fresh install you'd done anyhow. For me the swich from PIII (on Asus -I think it was a P2l97-S) to an Athlon 800(on an Abit KA7-100) worked but it is propably the trickiest switch as chipset, controller etc changes at the same time. Two tips though: 1) makes sure your bios settings are correct (and as basic as possible) and 2) boot up in protected mode first with most perhipherials disconnected. That way you might revert and work the system up by removing devices giving trouble.all Oh yes -the most essential advice of 'em all - BACKUP. I agree that W2K (all os:s really) tend to work better when you do the install from scratch and when they're fresh. Good luck & let us know if it worked H.
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