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I've connected Sony miniDV camcorders using Sony's USB driver. I plug camera into USB and/or Firewire port, video capture works fine and is usable by internet video-conferencing apps. HTH

Invoke hibernation directly with API call, see what it returns. Even without PAE, I usually get ~3.4GB memory.

Use HP utility to make flash drive bootable.

What mobo are you using? If you try my post #33 above it may work fine.

How do you add the entry points? Some more info here: http://win2kgaming.site90.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7

Thank you. KMPlayer doesn't have a file browser, how does it show mp4 thumbnails? PotPlayer installer says that my DirectX is out of date and redirects me here: http://www.dvbsupport.net/download/index.php?act=view&id=134

Is there a multimedia player that will show thumbnails in win2k? Explorer, VLC, Xnview, WMP won't do it.

I boot Linux off 4GB and 8GB flash drives, it's a slower than HD but it works. Flash drives have limited life so they'll occasionally die on you. They're covered under warranty but if you're storing important data -- don't use them.

All my USB flash drives run at ~10+ MB/sec regardless of OS. But, on some older hardware it depends if you booted with the flash drive or inserted it later. The Device Manager will show if it's connected as an Enhanced (fast) device or a slow one. So... try a different flash drive and plug it in before booting.

Not sure what you mean, by the time you get to power-off stage there's no OS or any drivers loaded.

I took out a defective Asus 790gx and replaced it with Gigabyte 890gx and XP continued to work after calling home to re-activate.

I haven't tried AMD 760G but 3.2.1540.53 works fine with my 790GX/SB750 and 890GX/SB850 My Asus 790GX had a power-off problem but I doubt yours is related to the AHCI driver. Hibernation (notoriously slow in win2k) is VERY fast too, about equal to XP.

OK fixed High Precision Event Timer -- HPET Device Not Available ACPI\PNP0103\4&356479D3&0 at 0xFED00000-0xFED003FF, for some reason this memory address is not available on this mobo. To fix, I renamed "14140000FFFFFFFF" in: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\HAL] "14140000FFFFFFFF"=dword:00000010 I don't know how HPET got enabled. I used the unofficial Win2k SP5 for this build (does SP5 enable HPET by default?). The "unknown device" in Device MAnager is still there but is harmless. But the DPC latency spikes are gone... fixed! I was getting huge spikes every 10-20 seconds which made my Wiimote jump to the corners of the screen... phew.

Both mplayer and mpc-hc work fine in my win2k, if you download K-Lite codec pack they'll even play mp4.

Well I'm stumped with this mystery device. It's a Zotax miniITX mobo with AMD 880G+SB850, Win2000 installs just fine but the system is showing huge DPC latency spikes. I can't track it down to any device driver but it doesn't happen in Linux, so that proves that it's a software problem and not hardware/BIOS(?). Funny thing, I didn't notice the latency or any multimedia stuttering BUT it makes my wii remote mouse jump like crazy every few seconds.

Thank you, this mobo does indeed have an Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter in a mini PCI-E slot, but it already has a driver and works just fine. This ACPI\PNP0103 seems like a dummy device because if I offer it the dummy "AMD Away" driver it accepts it and the unknown device goes away.

Apparently Windows 2000 and 2003 do not support High Precision Event Timer. Device Manager shows Code 28, but I've never seen "Unknown device" for this on new mobos. This one is a new AMD 880G + SB850. PNPDeviceID : ACPI\PNP0103\4&356479D3&0 Any ideas?

I've never seen pic/video thumbnails in Win 2000 Explorer. Xnview has a very good explorer-like browser with customizable thumbnails, very fast too.

AVG 9 works fine with Win2k+sp4+Update Rollup 1, version 9 is still current and AVG updates normally. You can disable Resident Shield and anything else through AutoRuns and run it command line on demand: ..\avgupd.exe ..\avgscanx.exe /COMP

That shouldn't happen. But if your browser is open and there's any Adobe Flash running it will prevent suspend and even actively defeat your screen timeout!

For me interactive means having an app filter that controls individual apps calling out. If you have an NVIDIA mobo, then the built-in ActiveArmor firewall (hardware+software based) is darn good and a free download.

Problem fixed, for the best possible font display, download gdi++/FreeType from here: http://www.cobyx.com/software/gdi/ is much better than Windows XP ClearType, and comes with a font tuning utility. More info here: http://offset.skew.org/wiki/User:Mjb/GDI%2B%2B wiki here: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww18.atwiki.jp%2Fgdiplus2%2F and blackwingcat's latest tweaked ATI video driver, version 10.11 for win2k, I can tell the difference thanks bwc http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/571484.html //

yeah it's annoying when your desktop gets scrambled. I think registry holds layout: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop\ViewView2 You could copy the key manually or write a script to save/restore

It could be windows bloat and/or buggines. Boot the latest Ubuntu desktop CD and if there's no "lagginess" then there's nothing wrong with your hardware.

Text color also changes to dark blue from default black. And smoothtext works even if text smoothing is turned off in windows display properties. Your BGR setting definitely works and is much sharper than RGB on my display. http://bellsouthpwp2.net/z/w/zw42vcqx9a/win2k/smoothtext.bmp ps: I'm getting error msg "You are not allowed to use that image extension on this board."