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AcmImBoard/Kuribo64 appears to mostly work even in Opera 8 and perfect in Opera 12. Except that users can add any styles to their post and name that could be incompatible. I'm also not a fan of reading a thread where every post has different colors and background, making it hard to tell what is a quotebox. But maybe it fits the overall theme of drawn Japanese avatars. Last big traditional forum is Doom9. Recently they discussed updating due to spam, but nothing came out of it. Some websites in older browsers appear totally blank without any content, even in New Moon 28. And there is a forum engine that shows the user names column, but the posts have no text in them.

Internet sites have consolidated into fewer platforms. Moderation on those feels like law enforcement without individual staff members being responsible for their decisions. Hidden bans are common, making it seem that the whole social medium community suddenly started hating me. With smaller forums one could more easily leave if they didn't like how the server was run. Actual regulations from governments and enforcement of copyright are ever increasing. Too many newbie users who feel the need to be policed. Failbook is too slow to spend much time on it without a computer from space. Surprisingly to me, it is the most accessible way of interacting with serious businesses who almost never run a discussion board anymore. This is the reason why I visit it. RSS was good. Opera presented this data as e-mail like messages. One could bypass the web design and user engagement research. Of course companies don't like that. I used RSS to skim over new threads at forums without the overhead of going to the site and refreshing it. Who do you think owns communications lines if not corporations? MSFN is not great anymore. It's been updated multiple times recently.

I installed 8 GB of RAM on my system with Server 2003 SP2. Unfortunately I discovered that playing sound on E-MU 0404 (Creative) sound card makes the system crash and cause errors on hard disks. Curiously, playing a video with sound works. CPU-Z wouldn't work. It is really dangerous if drivers can get loaded with small system info or task manager tools. PAE is now disabled using /fastdetect /execute /NOPAE. Disappointingly, only 3 G of memory is available. To make use of the memory I installed Gavotte RAMDisk 1.0.4096.30, and configured to use 1 G in PAE memory (DiskSizeM=1024, UsePAE=1). A FAT32 volume was created after reboot. However, the Task Manager shows that Commit Charge has increased by 1 G. It seems that it has allocated normal memory. What is wrong? I do not dare to increase the size of the ramdisk.

The Treacherous Platform Module is the most disturbing aspect. Corporations have been slowly stepping up security to take ownership away, and people accept it like the proverbial frog getting boiled, and even feel comforted by these innovations. SSL, signed drivers, certificates everywhere. Incompatible computers can of course continue running a suitable unsupported OS. But "Wintel" would rather send those computers to a landfill, while preaching about power savings or other green peace.

I have experienced all my comments being immediately deleted for about a month, after I wasted time writing them. Before that replies were much delayed, as if they were in a spam box. But I thought it was because an army of fans reported me for coronavirus comments or something. I wrote an angry message to the feedback that was also critical of some interface conventions. Now I genuinely feel better! I tried multiple accounts, but didn't think of changing the browser. My agent version is Firefox from the future with some slogans appended. I don't like the non-transparent mechanism of moderation on that site. Somehow traditional forums were able to handle the workload of semi-manual review. On my new installation of Windows, SMPlayer is somehow able to pick up YouTube-DL. Although every once in a while the speed gets stuck at inadequate 70 KB/s.

If a system boots in less time, doesn't mean it works practically works any faster. If the computer is rarely shut down at all, the boot time is a small fraction of its operating hours. I only turn off my PC because of the current heat wave in the afternoon. Also any new system will feel somewhat faster due to low fragmentation and small registry, depending on how much the previous system was used. 3x would break Nathan Myhrvold's and Wirth's laws of physics.

These hard drives are still working but are relatively new. 320 AAJ was used in a plastic Gigapod enclosure in the past, and therefore has a temperature reading of 61 °C. HDD VN is "new" but shows very low power cycle and load/unload cycle count. I used HDAT2 to lock the DCO where it accidentally saved the power management setting that prevents it from parking the heads. Apparently Crystal knows how to access smart over a RAID controller where other software fails.

How did you quantify the phenomenal 3x speed increase? Windows keeps growing in size, and yet every new version is reported as being faster. It is always some tricks, like delayed start of services (that still have to start) or suspend memory to disk, which was possible in older systems as well.

I researched this problem some more and found a SOLUTION. It has to do with sector addresses in CHS that exist alongside LBA. The workaround is to set the end sector of the system partition to the highest possible value FE FF FF. For LBA 8388608 I had h,s,c: 42,32,522. I am not sure if the sector value was correct, or if it should have been 33. I used BootIce, which is able to commit edits to bootsectors. The speed of the flash memory has much improved. https://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php?topic=8585.0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scenario 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Error ------- - BIOS is set to AHCI native SATA Mode BIOS > Integrated Peripherals > SATA AHCI Mode = AHCI SATA Port0-1 Native Mode = Enabled - HDD is connected - the primary partition start offset is 2048 sectors, which is equal to 1.048.576 bytes (1 * 1024 * 1024), this is an alignment value normally used for SSDs to improve read / write speed - Windows 2003 Server x86 with integrated SP2 is used to install the HDD - you press F6 to choose an AHCI driver floppy disk during setup - we use the already present partition and do only a quick NTFS format or we choose "Leave the current file system intact (no changes)" if available - the OS installs and on the 1st reboot directly after the AHCI Controller device scan you read one of the following error messages: - A disk read error occurred - Unable to load operating system - Error loading operating system Solution ---------- - turn computer off - connect the HDD which caused the problem and a 2nd HDD for launching XP - turn computer on - set BIOS to IDE Legacy Mode for XP to start - in XP use a hex editor and open the PhysicalDrive of the HDD that you installed Windows Server 2003 on - in the MBR set the 3 bytes starting at offset 0x1C3 to FE FF FF and save the changes to the PhysicalDrive - turn computer off - disconnect XP HDD - turn on computer - switch BIOS to native AHCI Mode - now Windows 2003 Server / Windows XP Setup will boot and continue - you will now have a properly aligned partition starting at sector 2048

I experience an invalidation of my previous login made on the same day when I log onto the board from a second computer on the same IP address. Can this be avoided?

If the system needs more than 4 GB of RAM, new processor instructions and a new motherboard with UEFI and a Treacherous Module, 64-bit makes the most sense. For compact installations or legacy hardware the newest OS is never the best choice.

This is strange. I tried writing a boot sector with bootsect.exe /nt52 C: /mbr. No go. Then tried installing Windows while connected to ICH8. It would not boot from either port after this, until I ran an installation another time now connected to JM. I don't believe there is data in the bootsector about the connection method. But the second installation made some change that allowed booting. The error loading operating system definitely comes from the disk. mbr-xray.bin pbr-xray.bin

I never reinstall, and accumulate many helper utilities and registry tweaks when I discover them. Most 3rd party software require tweaking, such as web browsers, where most settings are heavily obfuscated. I feel quite uncomfortable on a fresh, naked installation of Windows. The system disk and registry do get slower over time, but can be defragmented by copying over to a new disk or files. To reduce fragmentation, I move temp, browser caches and swap to a separate partition. Programs and System should separate. This allows to wipe the system, but keep programs. I avoid installing large programs that write to the registry, except for ones that I don't have an alternative for. If I see Windows Installer or .Net Framework, I steer clear of those. No updates, except when they extend functionality. The last time I reinstalled, I copied most off %appdata% and most of registry Software branch for both machine and user, except Microsoft values, to the new OS, and all file associations from the registry HKCR. This preserved most settings, and reduced the stress of the transition. Even if some big programs needed to be refreshed by reinstalling, their settings generally carried over. This is for old Windows though. WinNT 10 makes this approach difficult.

In Windows 2003 SP2 I cannot make an association to an executable file without specifying its full path. I have programs in "d:\apps", which has been added to the PATH variable. Some of them are referred to in associations. It is also not possible to run executables with *.sfx extension (WinRAR modules) to preview how they look, or save a module's name in a WinRAR preset without a path. Possibly other programs are affected in a similar way. When I call up a right-click menu that worked before on WinXP, the Open With dialog pops up instead. FileMon shows that the program (such as flac.exe) is searched only in C:\WINNT\system32 and C:\WINNT . This change smells very much like the "Safe DLL Loading" enforcement for NT6. However, that only changes the priority of directories, and both path and current directory are still searched. Can this feature be disabled? %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;d:\apps;d:\plugins;d:\apps\sox;d:\apps\fhgaac;d:\apps\qaac;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\AGL

The drivers work. However I am not able to boot from ICH8 after installing on JMicron. I wanted to avoid disturbing the existing disks. I get the error ""Error loading operating system"". I believe this message comes from the "disk" itself. But it does not parse the boot.ini. It fails to boot on any port, and with BIOS boot order set to prefer this disk. I haven't experienced this before when moving disks. How to fix without reinstall? The partition layout is unusual 3 primary NTFS partitions aligned to 2048s: 4G(system), 24G, 91G. My old installation of XP SP1 was picked up, but of course didn't go past the logo without a hdc driver. The JMicron JMB363 driver is useless. Speed is the same SATA I at 120 MB/s. No SMART unlike in IDE mode. Apparently no NCQ. And the disk is considered removable, and shows in the system tray. Any way to hide it from there? The Intel driver with a HDD also doesn't bring any benefit. Random 4K reads with HDD rose from 0.8 to 1.4 MB/s. I've not a chance to measure XRayDisk flash memory yet, except the sequential speed of 240 MB/s on Intel.

Thank you for the hints. I see that Hiren's has associated an old 6.1.0.1002 with ICH8. E2B has several drivers with correct chipset names, but they are not signed. Fernando's driver actually does contain DEV_2824 and probably can be used. I was confused and did not see it. My modified driver was finally able to detect discs. Win-Raid talks about their own certificate. Do I need to integrate it for Windows 64-bit to accept the driver? I will probably install 2008 R2 after an SSD arrives and XP is working well. I don't know much about new Windows. I wonder if the following method could work to skip the driver integration and messing with text files. Install Windows on Intel in legacy mode, install JMicron AHCI via Device Manager, plug disk into JMicron, install Intel AHCI, plug into Intel. I previously did this with VIA VT6410 before nLite existed.

I've started downloading videos using YouTube-DL, and watch them in Media Player Classic with nVidia PV acceleration at 1920 px and 60fps for free. SMPlayer has finally abandoned his downloader, and on-the-fly streaming no longer works for me. Even low resolution videos stutter all the time, because of the CPU load from drawing the page. It's much much better on a G2030 system in the same Pale Moon, but on Conroe-L is unusable. YouTube might stop offering H.264 soon because perceived progress trumps the installed base of decoders, and we're not supposed to use them outside of the browser at all.

I looked into a few versions of Rapid/Matrix and they don't have this device ID number. And neither does Fernando 11.2.0.1006. His set includes a lot of spam of his name in place of models. I can see attached discs in Hiren's Boot CD Mini-XP, which means that one of the included drivers is probably working. The support site for GA-965G-DS3 only offers a JMicron driver for supplementary ports where I don't want to connect the system disk to. At the time of making this motherboard there wasn't a working driver. I hope that I might be able to connect a disk with over 2 TB capacity if I have a 3rd party driver. I'll burn a disc and try an unsigned driver, and maybe forget about NT6.1.

This is a waste of time. Google must be seen as a modern company. Bigger and flatter software serves that goal. The polymer is getting slower every month. It's not even HTML, but a monolithic blob of script, where parts of it cannot be blocked for speed. It wouldn't have to be the exact old layout. But anything lighter. At one point they had a basic interface called "Feather" that loaded instantly, but lacked most basic functions such as commenting.

I plan to install a new OS on a 965G PC with ICH8 (without R). Its device IDs are 2025 in compatible mode and 2024 in AHCI mode. I downloaded and integrated driver 10.1.0.1008, but could not detect any harddisks in Windows Setup. This driver doesn't have my IDs and only supports ICH8R/DH/DO/M-E/M. I also downloaded a series of other versions, and none had my ID. The stickified and closed thread claims that an official, good driver exists for XP. But the link for that driver is no longer valid on Intel's site. Does a signed driver exist for this part? (I also want to install an NT6 64-bit with the awful driver signing.) If I understand the instructions right, the modification involves adding an entry without any device ID, but with CC_0106 ? Is there a reason why the Intel driver shouldn't be used, or the ACHI mode shouldn't be used?

I misremembered the name of the created preset. It is called "Limited Power Management". I believed it to affect the power of the processor when idle, but I doubt it. In PowerCfg, when I change the setting for "Turn off monitor," the setting becomes blank when I load PowerCfg again.

What does the profile Minimal Power Management added by NLite do exactly? Is it essential? I installed a Windows 2003 SP2 system where the power management has become broken. I did check MPM before setup because it did not cause issues with other XP systems. Currently I cannot edit the power profiles on that system. No matter if I create a new one, use an existing as a base, the monitor shuts off after a couple of minutes, which is not good for its health, the settings I choose are dropped. Apparently profiles cannot be imported from XP because they have a different length. But it is not serious issue enough to reinstall the system, which won't necessarily solve the problem. The issue could also be unrelated to NLite.

Sometimes I come across a site where I may not right-click to copy, or for any purpose. Usually I want to extract an image and view it in a separate tab to scroll it more comfortably, or view it in IrfanView if it is enormous or I need to compare 2 images without flicker. In Opera I can press F12, choose Enable JavaScript, do my clicks, then Enable JavaScript again for normal use. This is possible without reloading the page or abandoing its current state. Disabling JavaScript entirely is not what I want, because then most pages are not functional. What is the closest analogue achievable with Palemoon? This is a very useful function (among many in Opera).

Are there restrictions for an atypical number of reserved sectors or cluster size for the system partition with old Windows? I seem to recall that it didn't boot with with an aligned partition start, but last I formatted a disk years ago and have forgotten the details. I also ordered a flash memory for replacement of the system disk. Is this a legit check: create a file system, write one file, find its start address in a hex editor, divide it by 4k? I don't think I can use RMprepUSB for an internal disk.

What would a 1 MB alignment of partition start achieve? Files would still align to much smaller clusters. Is there a program for testing the performance of a series of possible alignments, in increments of a logical sector, to determine by how many sectors the system needs to be shifted?