I suggest trying out linux at this time – FREE.

Of course, I save all of the PC Games I have ever bought, and some of the best ones are old DOS-based games. If ME had dos support, I might feel kindlier toward it.

For a Gaming rig go ME for a workstation or server go 2k pro.

i got to stop typing in caps >>

I wanted to run XP.. but the FULL version isn't even out yet..

and I dont want to take a chance on it..

now I gotta figure out how I'm gonna back up about 4 gigs of Mp3z…

i got to stop typing in caps

but I'm on win98 se using only one stick..

<< For a platinum member, i'm dissapointed. >>

disappointed about what ??? >>

I wanted to see how much ram you had

disappointed about what ???

<< Well, why are you screaming? >>

I&quot;M VERY EXCITED

LOL..

BTW I GOT A ATI AIW RADEON 32MB DDR >>

The question is, how much RAM do you have?

I&quot;M VERY EXCITED

LOL..

BTW I GOT A ATI AIW RADEON 32MB DDR

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tanx

If you would like a high power one for the price, I would recommend the Toshiba M305D-S4829 from Circuit City this week. I haven't tested Crysis yet, but… I just purchased it on Wednesday, and am typing on it right now. It has a ton of power, like seriously. I was playing BF2142 last night with no problems. It costs $699, but It'll be running strong for a few years before anything begins to become too demanding for it. The sound quality on this laptop is phenominal. It has Harman/Kardon speakers that are Bose quality. It has 4GB of RAM, an ATI Radeon 3100 processor, which is nearly equal to most mid-range dedicated graphics processors. It support 802.11b/g/n networks. It has a standard webcam (not to mention facial recgognition software for extra secured log-ons) and all the other features you need lol. The style on this laptop is phenomenal.

If that is slightly out of your price range though, I would say go to Best Buy and pick up the HP DV5-1002NR. It costs $599, but it is nearly as good as the above laptop with only a few exceptions (it is actually better in some areas as well, lol). The touchpad on it has a glossy feel which is fine for cooler weather, but if its humid out or your fingers are the least bit sweaty, it becomes quite difficult to move the pointer. It has a slightly better video processor – the ATI Radeon 3200 (the main difference is that it has a HDMI output). It has a slightly larger screen at 15.4" WS. Its half a pound heavier, which isn't really a big deal to me at all. It also runs the 32-bit OS of Vista which will only support 3 GB of RAM, which is fine for nearly everything.I hope this helps you in your quest!

If you have any more questions, feel free to contact me!

But i didnt try a whole bunch of different games though

I played Max Payne, quake 3, Unreal Tournament, and several others including demos

With the exception of a few demos(which can be buggy anyway) Win2k is the BEST OS i've used for gaming

I got the EXACT same frame rate in games with 2k that i did in 98se SOMETIMES FASTER

maps loaded faster on some games due to win2k's better memory compiler

Now if you are wanting to play a whole bunch of older different games that may have only been designed for 98 or lower then you should stick with that OS

Right now i'm running XP and its almost as nice as 2k but i've found a few quirks i dont like so i will probably go back

I could run windows 2k for over a week without rebooting and without losing any speed

You can also download a "compatibility mode" application from MS for win2k that u can run any program in a mode compatible for an older OS

this feature is included in XP but you can add it to windows 2000

Go with 2k, you'll be glad you did

I agree. Although I am using XP RC2600, I am still dual booting with Win98SE for the ultimate game performance & compatibility.

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THanks

-SUO

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Then double-click on the username you wish to make a 'power users'. Then, go into &quot;Group Membership&quot; and toggle through the choices for &quot;Other&quot;. Power Users should be there.

which icon?

>>add the power users group to the settings

how do I do this?

THanks

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thanks, i'm gonna try this

http://www.maxtor.com/products/DiamondMax/techsupport/TechnicalProcedures/20014.htm

you are completely correct…but i've been to that site and it only tells you how to do the upgrade procedure once you have already low level formatted your drive. i can't even get that far! it also says to make sure you don't have any windows partitions on it, which i would assume a low level format would take care of…if i could ever find a way to low level format the darn drive. what a pain this has become.

i want to low level format the new drive that will be replacing the current replay drive. i need to low level format the new drive without creating any partitions and then copy the image file to it from the original replay drive.

is that the same as maxblast plus?

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I never try to run an OS so close to the minimum requirements.

Why do you want to install windows 2000?

Well, I installed it on a P1-200 with 32MB. It took for freaking ever, but luckily another system got hit by a power surge, so I got to deal with that while the install was happening

I have run 2000Pro on 128meg machines . If you are doing light duty stuff(no multitasking), it will run reasonably well. If it starts swapping to disk, it drags down badly.

Hard drive speed has alot to do with it as well. An older slower hdd will make the boot time intolerably long.

I never try to run an OS so close to the minimum requirements.

Why do you want to install windows 2000?

Close… but a Pentium 166 probably isn't going to be using SDRAM. It probably uses EDO or maybe even SIMMs… unless you're lucky I don't think the motherboard will take SDRAM. SDRAM is cheap. The rest is rare, hard to find, and therefore not so cheap.

My point was that it really wasnt a fair comparison, just because 2K Server runs seriously sluggish on that hardware doesnt mean that 2K Pro would run the same.

-Spy

Originally posted by: guy
I ran the domain controller for my home network on a Pentium 133.

Two user accounts, three machine accounts. The server just sat there and did nothing but DC roles.

It was completely unusable from a user interface perspective. It handled the domain controller duties, but there's no way that even the world's most patient person would use that as a desktop os.
Win 2K Server running as a DC does much more work than Win 2K Pro browsing the web and running office.
To give you an idea my P3-733/512 DC takes well over 5 min. to boot!

No, a DC does not do "much more work than Win2K browsing the web and running office." After the user is authenticated, the DC actually does very little.

Yes, it takes forever to boot and start all those services, but once they're started, they just sit there waiting for something to do. Since I never log off my machine, the DC is mostly idle.

It only groans when I log on locally and try to do something that has a GUI on the DC.

Originally posted by: guy
why bother…time to bury that ancient relic. or use linux
There you go, throw a couple of nics in it and turn it into a firewall or something and spend the $400 to set yourself up a new box

-Spy

lol, it's not my comp, it's my "workstation" at school for this term… even though it's very difficult to get any work done on such a crappy old thing.

Originally posted by: guy
why bother…time to bury that ancient relic. or use linux
There you go, throw a couple of nics in it and turn it into a firewall or something and spend the $400 to set yourself up a new box

-Spy

Welll, you could also use it as a DOS gaming box…..

-Spy

Originally posted by: guy
I ran the domain controller for my home network on a Pentium 133.

Two user accounts, three machine accounts. The server just sat there and did nothing but DC roles.

It was completely unusable from a user interface perspective. It handled the domain controller duties, but there's no way that even the world's most patient person would use that as a desktop os.
Win 2K Server running as a DC does much more work than Win 2K Pro browsing the web and running office.
To give you an idea my P3-733/512 DC takes well over 5 min. to boot!
Win2k Server is set up by default to give priority to background processes, so of course the UI is going to be rather sluggish, especially on a slow system like that.

Right now I'm running Windows 98 on a Pentium 166. It's… well… functional, but not much more than that.
I would expect the same from Win 2K, it will browse the web and work in Office just fine (unless you are running Office XP with all the bells and wistles). 80MB of RAM is enough to run Win 2K + IE + Word 2000 at a reasonable pace.

-Spy
For me, MS Word still loads too slow on my zippy Athlon XP with 512MB of RAM, but my parents wouldn't know the difference between 2GHz of Athlon XP power and a 166MHz Pentium. An interesting observation I have made about Win2k is that on equivalent hardware, Windows 98 may appear to be slightly faster while single tasking at a few small things, but Windows 2000 will "feel" very "smooth" (it's hard to understand unless you've experienced it), and will keep running reasonably well even under a large multitasking load.

Two user accounts, three machine accounts. The server just sat there and did nothing but DC roles.

It was completely unusable from a user interface perspective. It handled the domain controller duties, but there's no way that even the world's most patient person would use that as a desktop os.
Win 2K Server running as a DC does much more work than Win 2K Pro browsing the web and running office.
To give you an idea my P3-733/512 DC takes well over 5 min. to boot!

Right now I'm running Windows 98 on a Pentium 166. It's… well… functional, but not much more than that.
I would expect the same from Win 2K, it will browse the web and work in Office just fine (unless you are running Office XP with all the bells and wistles). 80MB of RAM is enough to run Win 2K + IE + Word 2000 at a reasonable pace.

-Spy

Two user accounts, three machine accounts. The server just sat there and did nothing but DC roles.

It was completely unusable from a user interface perspective. It handled the domain controller duties, but there's no way that even the world's most patient person would use that as a desktop os.

Corm

BTW. I've installed W2k on a 166 w/ 64 Megs of RAM (I think that's the min specs) and it was tough to use. IMO….unless you've got a ton of ram…you'd be better off with a fresh install of 98. if you can keep your system without a bunch of junk on it…..I think you might be able to use it w/o too much irritation. (I got one of dem here that I use for testing, and it's bearable)

I wouldnt recommend multi-tasking, but than again Windows 98 wouldnt really run all that good on it either.

-Spy

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I then did a fresh install of Win2k and the driver was again recognized. I have all driver updates, some from CDs to read from this drive.

Then one time it did not show up, and after several reboots they see up.

What is up? Is there something wrong with this drive, or what?

I already lost a Floppy Driver for this new system, what else?

Thanks for the details on the nVidia 2.03 driver. The only reason that I am usint it is that I do not have to update the nVidia Audio Codec Interface with the Realtek driver. I had to do this with the ASUS 1.6 driver because of bad sound distortion in DVD playback with the ASUS 1.6 driver.

Can the nVidea 2.03 driver be updated to the ASUS 1.6 driver, or would it be best up do another fresh install of Windows?
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I was talking to a friend and he mentioned having the same kind of problem with a CD writer and found that if there was a CD in it, Windows would not recognize it. If he took the CD out it would see it just fine. I have now done 6 Warm Restarts (3 ea. w/ and wo a cd) and 6 Cold Boots (3 ea. w/ and wo a cd), and all 6 times with a CD the drive was not recognised in Windows, while all 6 times without a CD, the drive was recognised in Windows.

I do not have this problem with the SONY CD/DVD writer at all. This must be an issue between the firmware of the drive, the mobo driver, and possibly the BIOS.

Any comments on this?

I don't know…. Good luck.

Strange indeed……….
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Yes, in fact it got to the point, on an older install of Windows, that if I would unplug the cable then plug it in again, the drive would be recognised.

I then tried the cable for another drive, but got the same result.

It just seems that this drive is flaky, but I have never had one come in and out like this, they would either work or not work.

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One feature I like about XP is the System Restore feature. Does anyone know if Win 2000 has something similar, perhaps buried deep in the program or on the CD?

If not, is there a program available as a plug-in for Windows 2000 to a function which ensure that something like this?

Thanks in Advance.

tunaonwry

Any old Windows 2000 CD will not work. If your license is from an OEM version of Windows 2000, you'll need an OEM Win2000 CD.

If your license is from a retail version, then you'll need a retail Win2000 CD.

You did not specify the make of your laptop, but I'm aware that Dell systems have the license code sticker on them. Those are OEM key codes so pretty much any Dell system restore Win2000 CD will work.

Retail key code = Retail CD
OEM key code = OEM CD

Good luck!

If it is any consolation… I had less problems overall with Win2000 Pro than any other OS including XP!!! It is extremely stable. Good luck with everything!

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is there anyway to boot into Win2K without repairing the installation?

Thanks

I have Win2KPro on 3 boxes and I do what you did all the time with no problem on reboot.

Anyway…good luck and keep us informed…

If you have more than one hard drive you can move the page file to the second drive, defrag the first drive, move the page file to the first drive and defrag your second drive.

Done.

guy

you can copy the pagefile, but windows wont let you move it unless you are in DOS mode

If you have more than one hard drive you can move the page file to the second drive, defrag the first drive, move the page file to the first drive and defrag your second drive.

Done.

guy

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
I am curious as to how disabling the pagefile allows you to defragment "better". Any more info?

The idea here is that with the pagefile disabled, two things happen:

1) when the drive gets defragged, it won't have to work around the pagefile
2) one the drive has been defragged, and the page file reenabled, the page file can then be almost guaranteed to be one continuous block of drive, and unfragmented.

here (http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/11/23/defrag_pagefile.html) is a good link with a bit more info.

Note that I have personally never, ever used this trick, nor do I see how it would actually help anything speed-wise realistically. IMHO, it's a lot of pain for not much gain. So, I'm just explaining why. My personal view is that it's not worth the trouble.

When you defrag your drive, defragmenter (unless you are using diskeeper ) won't defraf pagefile and MFT. so if you disable virtual memoery and restart the system, windows will delete pagfile. after you defrag it, you can enable virtual memory and windows will make a brand new pagefile with no defragmentation. It works like a charm with Windows XP. apparently not so with windows 2000

The idea here is that with the pagefile disabled, two things happen:

1) when the drive gets defragged, it won't have to work around the pagefile
2) one the drive has been defragged, and the page file reenabled, the page file can then be almost guaranteed to be one continuous block of drive, and unfragmented.

here (http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/11/23/defrag_pagefile.html) is a good link with a bit more info.

Note that I have personally never, ever used this trick, nor do I see how it would actually help anything speed-wise realistically. IMHO, it's a lot of pain for not much gain. So, I'm just explaining why. My personal view is that it's not worth the trouble.

ta and good luck

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not for me.

Also, I didnt know that hotkey nohr, thank you as well. Very useful.

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