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Cable select—The position of the drive on the cable determines which drive is master and which is slave; Cable Select requires an 80-wire Ultra ATA cable. Some computer vendors use specially designed 40-wire cables that support Cable Select. Note that you can also use Master and Slave settings with 80-wire cables. Color-Coding for Easier Cable Installation Almost all 80-wire ATA/IDE cables are color-coded to help you figure out which connector to use for each drive and the host adapter. Use the blue connector for the host adapter on the motherboard or ATA/IDE add-on card. Some motherboards even use blue plastic for some of the ATA/IDE host adapter connectors to make matching the adapter to the cable as easy as possible. The black connector on the other end of the cable is for the primary (master) drive, and the gray connector in the middle of the cable is for the secondary (slave) drive. Note: Some cables do not use the color-coding described here, but all ATA/IDE cables are made with the primary master connector on one end, the motherboard connector on the other, and the slave connector in the middle. So basically Cable-Select tells the master from the slave by the postion it is on the cable, black(master) or Grey(slave), the blue end goes to the motherboard **ALSO without a 80wire cable, UDMA levels will be a mode 2, even if your drive is mode 5 or 6

Just bought a Thermaltake Silent boost Dont waste your time or money on this thing, the stock Arkua cooler was better

Nobdy is mentioning the raw sockets, disable dcom, upnp, and windows messenger. some tools for free are here :http://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm Start Registry Editor (Regedit.exe). Locate the following key in the registry: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\ Services\NetBT\Parameters In the right-hand side of the window find an option called TransportBindName. Double click that value, and then delete the default value, thus giving it a blank value. Close the registry editor. Reboot your computer. After rebooting open a command prompt and in it type netstat -an See that your computer no longer listens to port 445. block 139 and 445 in your router

If you have 1 gig, I suggest ditching the swapfile and adding ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 to your system.ini

I hear you, I just finished playing with 2005 mce SP2 built in and while it was more stable than past xp's, i still didnt feel safe running it. I tried 2000, xp pro too and it wont be long till scandisk thrashes the works. From normal shutdown to corrupt files in 60seconds, or less. Thank goodness for 98SE

I use this one

Thought this could be nice....

I think I'm gonna try again without APIC. I get crazy STOP messeges from regular XPpro too.

Thanks for that. This is otherwise known as Vcache ? Because I got mine at maxcache=524288 If it is set in the system.ini, should I even be using this mod ?

Original tip is here:http://www.mdgx.com/newtip16.htm#MCS all other sources that list these REG settings copied them from my web site. You may also want to try these [similar] REG settings for CD/DVD drives: http://www.mdgx.com/newtip6.htm#CDMAX Hope this helps. Dont forget :Registry Tip for Increasing Icon Cache

Not good news ! I tried it and first, I enabled apic, plug and play off in the bios, and virus protection on. I got a un-called-for restart when it was detecting my hardware, then I thought maybe i didnt see the warning, so on I went then right after setting the time I got STOP : 0X0000008E (0XC000005,0X80573886,0XF7A3EB9C,0X00000000) BEGINING PYSICAL MEMORY DUMP..........etc. Great ! So off to the bios I go, Plug and play on, apic still on virus protection off. Again, boot from cd, format partition, setup. I'm off and running, install complete !!! Everything working great, De-dcom, check, windows messy disable, check, upnp disable, check, Via 4in1 508a done, Ethernet driver, done, firewall on updates off, lets register, done. I go to updates and download 41 criticals, done, installing updates, done, reboot. Back to update and get some optionals, debugging tools and netframwork 2.0, downloading......Blink!!, restart.now wtf ? Now this is where XP ALLWAYS goes downhill, the scandisk finds errors, uuurrrggghh!. MS tells me in a pop-up that it is sending a report about a device driver or something to MS for the analyzer team to examine, fine, send. Go open process explorer......blink! restart. To make a long story short, Xp has issues, restarting for no reason and without warning is not exceptable, losing data after every unexpected shutdown is retarded. It never gets better I tried before to keep truckin' and try to cure the problem but it never ends, even after disabling restarts after blah blah didnt help. Too many STOP errors and I never have any problems on 9x, memtested my ram, which is brand new, so is my chip and the board is barely used, everything is A-OK. I dont know what I'm doing wrong, obviously others can use the OS without these headaches. So if anyone has this issue or if I'm the only hurtin' unit in the world, please leave a comment. Thanks

I obtained a disk set called: Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 120 day evaluation. Should I even bother ? Anyone tried this copy ? Apparently there's 2 disks in the pack.

What enemies ? These game are scrap in the dump by now and kids don't even know what half this stuff is. I'll remove the rom link, the one to google can stay. **************************************************************************************************** ********************* Below is a crapload of screenshots that cover only a few of the games availible. Lots of the games are REALLY good !!

Here's some old school games. Get the player here Get games and here

I can use the 320 driver in XP and it renames the mater UltraBusMaster and it has udma 6 but 9x seems to be limited to udma 4, so I'll have no choice but the 4in1 driver. I liked the non-type 47 ID's but oh well.

Try opening "system.ini" in C:\Windows and add these, maybe in safe mode, under: [386Enh] ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 DMABufferSize=64 MinSPs=8 under: [vcache] MaxFileCache=524288 Then reboot The bottom line is the critical 1

Yes ! That's the problem, I used the 320 driver on my mode 4 and under days, the driver says it supports udma 6 but there must be a trick, I used to use the 2001 bus master with 2003 (320) primary and secondary on my 686b southbridge. The manual setting tools was bunk too so I updated from the unzipped folder. Also if "synch data tranfer" on my harddisk's is scsi, then thats what it was, now it's dma and synch is greyed out.

Use resource hacker to mod explorer.exe and give your start button a new name and the Second Edition logo that microsoft was to lazy to design and install. Make a copy and mod away. You can save the bitmap icons and open them up with paint and flip the image and type "second Edition" or whatever you want.....fool your friends with you new 98 Platinum Gamer Edition or what have you. Best to get a explorer.exe from here with 256 color icons. Use dos and COPY to insert your modded explorer.exe Here's one I made with windows 98 "Athlon Edition" on it. Here's another for system performace tab Copy and paste this to a text file and save it as something.reg and then double click it. Then reboot and check it out. This gives GUI 2.1MB of ram instead of 64KB on super cache setting. Something mentioned here REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\FS Templates] @="Max Cache" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\FS Templates\Super Cache] @="Super Cache" "NameCache"=hex:00,ff,00,00 "PathCache"=hex:ff,00,00,00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\FS Templates\Max Cache] @="Max Cache" "NameCache"=hex:00,18,00,00 "PathCache"=hex:c8,00,00,00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\FS Templates\Huge Cache] @="Huge Cache" "NameCache"=hex:80,13,00,00 "PathCache"=hex:90,00,00,00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\FS Templates\Large Cache] @="Large Cache" "NameCache"=hex:a0,0f,00,00 "PathCache"=hex:80,00,00,00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\FS Templates\Medium Cache] @="Medium Cache" "NameCache"=hex:20,0f,00,00 "PathCache"=hex:50,00,00,00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\control\FileSystem] "NameCache"=hex:00,18,00,00 "PathCache"=hex:c8,00,00,00

I have a KT600 chipset and the IDE drivers have 2 versions: This one is part of VIA_IDE_MPD_V320b Viaide.vxd version 2.0.950.3020 ^^^^^^real model ID^^^^^^^^ I can only obtain mode 4, but drives are identified. This is from VIA4in1_v5.04 Vatapi.vxd version 2.0.950.120 ^^^^^^type 47^^^^^^^ I get mode 6 but no drive identification Viaide uses Viadsk.mpd Vatapi uses esdi_506.pdr So whats the deal, anyone mastered this one ? I'd like to keep udma 6 and the drive identification, funny pcwizard knows what it is......

Well I had a previous version of jnes that worked ok on my old system but it was lagging for no reason when I upgraded, then the new version came out and it works excellent, I'm really happy with it and I try to stick with 1 thing, I'm sorry. Over all, It's great to play the games so easily and I just wanted to share my excitement with you.

JNES works great too ! CLICK ME !_______________I love Infiltrator Get it here Super 2x Sal mode This is a blast from the past too... Snes rocks too

Get Them Here Click on the link unzip to windows\cursors and to see the animation right-click the cursor file and go to properties. These were made when the computer was "fun" Here's mine: