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Dents
My event viewer is filling up with several niggling problems. As far as I can tell they havent affected my system, but then again, I'm not sure. I *have* been experiencing random lockups. Anywho, my system: BP6 w/two 366's@550 FEP32coolers ~31C temp 128mb ram.

How functional are the Tvtuners in win2k
cknyc
I am lookign to get the haupauge wintv card. I know it works in win2k but how well. Compared to win98, is it fully functional. Can you record video, copy still frames, use wincast. thanks.

DMA66 vs DMA33
radx
Howdye peeps, What is the big deal about upgrading to DMA66 compatiable ide-controller? Especially since you nowdays usually have to change the entire motherboard to get it. Ofcause you buy an expansion card but that will occupy a free pci slot and that stinks when you need all those 5 (like me).

How to enable Hibernation?
jamsbong
I upgrade to windows 2000 from win98. i did not have hibernation in win98. after finish upgrade, i was able to use hibernation, and i did use it successfully. . . but after I restart PC, the feature is gone.

Has anyone gotten a USB CD-R to work in Win2k?
Robo_Grunt
If anyone has gotten their USB CD-R drive to work in Win2k can you please explain how you did it or provide me with driver location. Thanks.

BP6 HPT366 Errors in Win2k under Event Viewer
Streak
I have an Abit BP6 motherboard and am using an IBM ATA66 27GB hard drive on the HPT366 controller. I recently downloaded the Win2k drivers for the HPT366 controller and used them to install Win2k. I am also using the latest PW Bios for the BP6 and version 1.

Voodoo3 3000 / Win2k / Quake 3
YakBak
I am having trouble getting quake3 to run correctly. At first it woudn't run, i installled this (v3w2k-beta2. exe) and i read another post with someone who had the same problem. I had the red screen and the distorted video.

ms sidewinder gamepad
ironman666
i am having a really weird prob with the sidewinder gamepad, win2k, and madden 2k. windows detects my joystick just fine and it runs fine in the tests. but in madden 2k the joystick doesn't respond properly and it looks like madden 2k is detecting it as a gravis pad.

Q3A doesn't run for me! I get this error....
[CaF]Viper
I get this error only in NT! Q3 1. 11 win-x86 Nov 24 1999 - FS_Startup - Current search path: C:\Program Files\Quake III Arena\baseq3\pak0. pk3 (3539 files) C:\Program Files\Quake III Arena/baseq3 execing default.

Quake3, MX300, and A3D
Fusion
I tried searching for this in the forums, I was wondering how to be able to run A3D on win2000 retail build with an MX300. Do I need to install certain drivers or something? Oh, btw, I have a single processor system thanks guys, Fusion.

Boot.ini
Jehova
Somehow, I've lost my boot. ini file, and during startup win2k says it will use some default one instead. How can I fix this? Where does the boot. ini file usually reside?.

acpi
chopper2000
well my machine was not showing up as acpi under computer in device manager so I manuled installed acpi dual processor and my machine would not boot it just showed startup screen then reset so i booted into millenium and used recover of w2k and it worked and my puter shows up as acpi now.

Anybody having problem with Adobe Photoshop 5.5?
ktun
I am running Win2000 (Build 2195) and I am having problem with Adobe Photoshop 5. 5. Whenever I use Eraser (for example, to erase background out of a picture and turn it to transparent)my computer would freeze after like 10 seconds of Eraser use.

SoundBlaster AWE 32 and Windows 2000 build 2195
kenshinhimura
I have this problem that the sampling rate is only 44100 KHz mono/ 22500 KHz stereo. Is there any special drivers to fix this ?.

Win2k+SB Live+DIN???
Kyodye
Has anyone gotten the SB Live with the DIN connection (for FPS2000 speakers) to work in Win2000? The normal analog connection works but I need to get the DIN connection to work. .

Why the high ping in Quake 2 under Win2k with LT Winmodem?
Xetenor
I wonder why my ping is 40ms higher in Win 2k than in Win 98. I am using the latest modem driver for Win98/2000 from Lucent. My modem is an Lucent Winmodem K56flex/V. 90 Dual. My video card is an 3Dfx voodoo Banshee 16 meg PCI.


McAfee Virusscan 4.03 **WORKING**
Mistral
This is just a tip for those who may or may not have had problems installing McAfee Virusscan 4. 03 for NT on Windows 2000. Users may have experienced a hang at bootup, or an unbelievably long bootup time (>6 mins.

UDMA 66 in WIN2k?
JBoDEAN
ANyone here get UDMA66 AND Hibernate to work in win2k/ I have the win2k UDMA 66 highpoint drivers 1. 21 and they work fine, but when I try to run/enable hibernate, it wont let me, due to the fact i am using UDMA 66 ANyone get around this?.

mouse probs with Q3
FireStrike
Hi, I got a ms intellimouse explorer. I installed intellipoint 3. 0 and the mouse works correctly in win2k. But Q3 doesn't find the 2 side buttons of the mouse It thinks that they are both the same.