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Tweaking and Troubleshooting my system

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Deranged667

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ok it goes like this, the specs for my current system are as follows:
Abit VP6 Motherboard BIOS v. 3.15.00.11
256 Megs PC 133 RAM
Dual 1 Ghz 133Mhz FSB (hence a fixed multiplier of 7.5)
Four 15 gig IBM Deskstar 75GXP ATA/100 HDDs Raided in Striping mode 0 (for a grand total of about 60 gigs partitioned three times into a 19,19,20 cause of loss from formatting and what -not)
Guillemot Hercules 3D Prophet II GTS Pro ( GeForce 2 Pro chipset) non-OCed
Creative Labs SB Live MP3+
Tekram DC-315/U SCSI card w/ 4x4x20x CD-RW attached (updated drivers already)
Win2000 on one partition (saving one for XP and other for Linux)
Cooling: Front Case intake fan (8cm), one HDD cooler on one of the four IBM ATA/100 HDDs(Cool-drive originally meant for a 10,00 rpm SCSI HDD which fell through) getting 2 rear case cooling (8cm) fans for other devices and general case cooling
1 Retail Intel socket 370 P3 Processor fan & HS and 1 OEM fan & HS
Power: 300W ATX PS

I have a few issues/questions about tweaking /troubleshooting my system:
1) I generally use my system for setting up D-Servers and playing games online every once in a while (i.e. Counter-Strike, Q3A, UT etc.) and i'm not seeing a big performance difference (from my old P3 800 100 FSB Asus P3b-f Mobo w/ IBM 13.5 gig ATA/66, w/ same GPU and Monster 2 MX300 Soundcard w/ same SCSI card and devices running Win98 first edition) except with installation of software and data transfer from HDD and with Multithreaded apps under win2k i don't see a slowdown but no other differences!
THE THING THAT CONCERNS ME THE MOST IS that no matter what drivers i ude for my GPU chipset i can only get a max of 75 fps under win2k at any res. whereas i could get 150+ under win98 (must be some driver or support issue under win2k, right?) and i can't use my bundled PowerDVD software under win2k or it crashes and gives me a memory access error!!! anyone know of better Video card Drivers and/or DVD playback software for win2k?

2) I'd like to find out, since my processors are 1 OEM and 1 Retail, what the Vcore value should be for each one non-OCed and if it would be possible/worth it to OC in the future? ...
...suprisingly enough, the cheapo OEM HSF i got is about 2 degrees Celsius lower than the retail one running at less than twice the rpms as the Retail HSF (3600rpm 30 degrees C Retail, 5900rpm 28 degrees C OEM) both at a what appeares to be a Vcore of 1.73, not sure if it's too high for either one. anyone have an answer?

3) Also, for some reason the IDE controller drivers (VIA ATA/100 controller) on the disc bundled w/ the Mobo, when installed, make the system crash due to an error associated with the file NTOSKRNL.EXE, sounds like a system kernel file of some sort, anyone know why?

4) The Tekram SCSI card drivers seem to produce errors when i use the CD-RW drive for something as simple as playing a CD or installing a program, the errors read something like "the device \Devices\SCSI\trm3x51, did not respond within the timeout period" need to know how to fix this, already tried re-installing drivers! any suggestions???

Any Info would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

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Well i'm sure you know but win2k is not the best for gaming and there are allot of issues but there are a few updates and drivers that can help but if your into gaming allot try another OS sorry i cant help allot but allot of the stuff your asking is over my head but on a 1g p3 1.75 is the stock CV ive heard its harder to overclock duel processors but my 1gp3 is extremly stable at 1200 ive had it at 1248stable but burned in at 50c for 5 minutes and the chip did not like it and now 1235 or something close is all it will do but i'm still looking for more then 1.9 for CV.
 
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