Have you tried running the Maxtor diagnostic utilities on your hard drive? Recently I was facing a similar problem with a machine that I built for someone. In my case I the machine was not getting BSOD's but was bus locking very intermittently under Win2k Pro (we?re talking every few days of...
I have a Creative Labs DVD-ROM DVD2240E drive which is made by Panasonic and has the same problem your drive does. I have found that it only has this problem with particular DVD's & it will usually read them after reloading the DVD into the drive several times. It seems to have more...
You can force Win2k to boot without displaying the menu even without manually editing your boot.ini file. Go to control pannel and open the system applet, click on the advanced tab, click on startup and recovery, make sure "Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect is selected...
To remove the extra entry from your boot menu you'll want to edit your boot.ini file which resides in the root of your C:\ partition. By default it's attributed as a hidden system file. In order for explorer to list it in Win2k you must enable the viewing of hidden files and disable the...
Thanks for the welcome! I'm Aaron Busi.
My system specs are:
Dual PIII 800 EB's
Intel OR840 motherboard
256MB PC800 RDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400
Quantum Fireball LM30
The system is running Win2k Pro
I run two instances of the seti 2.4 command line client at once to max out both CPU's. I get...
Would your friend be open to trying the command line version? I don't think it would hurt his system resources as much as the GUI version. Even on my old computer a 166 pentium with 128 mb ram I've never noticed the command line version slowing the system down much. I leave it up 24/7 on the...
Thanks for the welcome. I usually complete about 6 or 7 work units a day on this machine. Every couple days my old P5-166 completes a work unit too =) (it takes that sucker about 34 hours per unit). I run two instances of the commandline 2.4 client & each client takes about 6 hours to...
My case does have pretty good ventilation. It has 4 1/2' fans at the front and back with the rear fan located right behind the two CPU's. There's quite a bit of cool air going over the CPU's. This motherboard orients the CPU's so that they are mounted horizontally with CPU #1 above cpu #2 so...
Both CPU's are PIII 800 EB's stepping 3 & both are from the same FAB in Malaysia. The new CPU was from an Intel "boxed" set & the other was an OEM cpu. I have been wondering if heat could be an issue on the second cpu because of the crappy intel provided heatsink/fan...
I've got an Intel OR840 motherboard with two PIII-800 133FSB's, 256MB of PC800 RDRAM, a Quantum Fireball LM30, and a Matrox Millenium G400 video card all running under Windows 2000 Pro. My problem is that the system intermittently will lock up hard. The cap's lock & num lock don't even...
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