Before I reinstall Windows 2000, tell me...

[ceraph]

So anyway, most of 2000 was working perfectly. 815E INF drivers, ATA driver, SP1, all without problems. System was up and running without a single crash.

However, I decided I still wanted 98, so I decided to repartition and install 98 on C, before I ever consider re-installing 2000.

Here's a couple things I want to know about 2000:

- No matter whether or not I select plug-and-play BIOS on/off in my BIOS, EVERYTHING in 2000 gets put on IRQ 9. Now, it all works mind you, but my system ends up with like 4 irqs used, and 12 devices on IRQ 9.

- Strange beeping with SB Liveware! for Win2K .. I think I'm just not going to install this.

- PC-DVD Dxr3 doesn't work exactly right.. don't think I'm going to install this.

- I can never get Windows 2000 to retain a monitor driver. Why? I don't know. Upon installation of display drivers, I find a monitor has been configured under the device manager, and it's using the "Plug and Play Monitor" driver. Whenever I reboot, Windows 2000 always reverts to a non-PnP "(Default Monitor)" and never shows a monitor entry under the device manager. This happens with Asus' 5.33 drivers, and Nvidia's 6.67 reference. No matter what I do, whenever I reboot, Windows will ALWAYS revert back to "(Default Monitor)." Which wouldn't be all that bad if this monitor had DPMS support... but it doesn't .. so the monitor never turns off automatically.

So, I'd like to have answers to at least some of the above before I try to reinstall it.

 

[mrhair]

Windows 2000 will always put your devices on a single IRQ, it's just how it uses ACPI. Most of the time this shouldn't cause any problems.

For your SB Live, don't install LiveWare, just let Windows 2000 use its own drivers for the card, as, right now, they are the more stable drivers than Creative's.

I also have the Creatve DxR3, but I don't use it because Creative has yet to release a final driver and program package. I'm royally pissed at how long it is taking, because my Radeon TV out is nowhere near the quality of a dedicated hardware decoder like the DXR3.

I also have the monitor problem you do, although I think it is related to ATI's Radeon drivers. In only one driver package has my monitor correctly been identified as a Plug and Play monitor. Also, my system seems to generally be more unstable when it uses Default Monitor instead of Plug and Play monitor, which really sucks.

Anyway, do what's recommended, install 98 on the C partition, 2000 on your D. You shouldn't have too many problems though since you're using an Intel chipset/board and you have a NVidia card. NVidia generally has good driver packages.

mrhair

 

[jeremy806]

Well, I used to run 2000 and am now running 98SE instead. SB Live was one of my reasons for switching to 98SE.

Anyway, the IRQ9 thing is interesting to me, and I hope that others can help explain it.

My understanding is: The original XT platform had IRQs 0-7. In order to expand to the AT/ATX platform and add IRQs 8-15, IRQ2 and IRQ9 were connected. Thus IRQ2=IRQ9. Further, all of IRQs 8-15 have always shared IRQ9, but 95 and 98 just didn't tell you that, but w2k does tell you.

Anyway, I am not sure if the above is correct or not, but it is my guess.

So, the IRQ9 thing in w2k is no big deal.

jeremy806

 

[The Wildcard]

ceraph: your problem with the creative DXR3 drivers is a known bug, lol. I had it too and posted a thread in this forum and in other forums but didn't get anywhere. I finally did a search on Creative's DVD Encore Support Newsgroup and got a couple of hits.

It's bascially a known bug and there's really nothing you can do about it. I actually reinstalled windows 2000 3 times before i figured out it was the DXR3 drivers, lol.

The only possible way of fixing it is trying to manually add the monitor. So stick in your monitor's drivers' disk into your computer and try to force win2k to read the disk and add the hardware.

 

[RichieZ]

Turn off APCI in your bios if you can, I can on my Soyo 6BA+IV, but having everything on irq11 works fine for me.

Note: Once you turn it off, you can't turn it back on

 

[Glutzie]

Try these:

pci bus irq aharing

irq sharing

tech report on ACPI

 

[dcdomain]

You can try leaving ACPI on in the bios, and turn it off on the OS level by holding down F5 and selecting standard pc on the first blue screen where it asks you to hit F6 to load third party drivers. Afterwards, to get back some power management functions, just enable APM in Win2K.