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Those new Neptune 5.02 Drivers...

Exorcist
Has anyone tried these yet? - link on the front page. . . . apparently work in Windows 2000 as well. What's performance, etc like? - want to know if they're worth installing before I try it Exorcist.
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Win2K boot disk problems

URinsane
I need to flash my dvd-rom's bios so that it will work in Win2K. However, I have no clue on how to make a boot disk that will work with it. What do I need to do?.
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Asus 3.79 beta 4 out

Jehova
New drivers out! Haven't tried them yet since all the links are dead. If anyone have tried it out before the link was removed, tell me if it supports tv-out on the Deluxe versions. And if the colors in Media Player still screws up while using Asus' drivers.
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ATi Rage Fury Pro - Thoughts/Input

cputnam
I'm consider switching to this card. Primary reason is that the drivers for my current card (Matrox G400) have problems with certain applications (same problems that occurred w/ Win98SE continue in Win2000).
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What's a "Print Processor" under advanced printer

Andy_25
If I right-click on my printer, choose properties > advanced > Print Processor, I can choose between two different print processors (Lexmark Print Processor and Win Print), and 5 different default datatypes (Raw, Raw , Raw , NT EMF 1.
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Hibernation where have you gone ??

thibs
HI, Well I have this small problem about hibernation : When I first installed W2K my IBM drive was on the ATA33 controller of my BP6 and no problemo I could see the hibernation tab and even use it.
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Windows 2000 FIX, IS THIS TRUE

jdulmage
I was told by someone that they fixed the game problems with Windows 2000, by deleting the windows directory, deleteing msdos. sys and all of those that are in C:\ then install DOS, then immediately install Windows 2000 after that.
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TRAXDATA CDR4120PRO or TEAC 55s

kem
anyone got this CDR to work under win2k? it works fine in win98 but even with the latest firmware it simply DOESNT write under win2k. It reads data flawlessy but when i try to burn something it come out with could not perform write.
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ACPI and Processor Speed

Alex_w
I have a Gigabyte GA-5AA Ali Aladin V motherboard with bios updated to latest F3 revision, I have found it fully supports ACPI installation and works with only one problem, I have a K6-2 500 and for some reason windows detects the processor speed as being half the actual speed, the bios does display the correct spe ...
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A3D with Soundblaster Live! Cards

jra101
Now that the latest version of LiveWare fully supports EAX 3D sound in Windows 2000 you can have 3D sound in Quake3. As you may know, Quake3 only supports 3D sound on Aureal cards but there is a way around this.
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Is it normal that "CPU usage" jumps to 100% when p

Andy_25
Hi, Like the title says, is it normal that my CPU usage in task manager jumps 100% when printing, and stays there until the print is finished? In other words, my computer becomes extremely slow when I print something, even a text document in Word.
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MS-Sidewinder Software 4.0 and Win2k

Silencer
Hi, Does somebody know how to install the Microsoft Sidewinder-Software (4. 0) for my MS-Gamepad PRO. Each time I try to install this stuff I only got the message that I must have administrator-rights to install this software (Sorry I have the German Win2k and therefore I dont know exactly what Administrator-Rechte ...
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SBLIVE not what its cracked up to be..

Rok1
Hi all, Ive been using a SBLIVE XGamer for about 2 weeks now. . im not impressed. . EAX is not worth it if you only have 3 speakers (2 satellites 1 Sub) if you have the room for 4 speakers go for it.
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EAX not working correct

Galilee
I use the liveware2000 beta and can't get EAX to work In UT the sound is really distorted when I use EAX and in Half-Life the game wont recognice the EAX stuff. Any ideas?.
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opti sound cards

RoGuE
has anyone heard of an opti driver for win2k. . . i have a friend who cant install his sound card because of lack of support. if he has to get a new sound card which chipsets are supported in win2k?? i told him anything creative works good.
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