I gave up on Win2000 and just installed ME (b4 you flame, I have never had a problem with ME, and besides I underestand how to do things in ME) again. I installed the latest 4in1 drivers and nothing else from VIA. Soundblaster Live is working perfect. Is it necessary to install anything else from VIA? Everyting seems right and working just fine, and I don't want to screw it up. As you can tell, this is my first VIA board.
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What abouth the driver cd that came with my KK266?
- Thread starter Twofan
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If it ain't broke don't fix it.
I almost pulled all of my hair out trying to install 2K as well, gotta use failsafe settings (w/ USB turned off!), but I got fed up and I'm running ME also, the SBLive prob. seems to effect only some people with some configurations, but if you do have any problems, other than the 4 in 1's you'll need the 4/26 bios or later. I tried sooooo hard to get win 2K installed and when I finally did, it still gave me some problems when I enabled optimized settings, I was pissed, runnin' ME with no problem now, Goodluck!!
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I guess it must matter what specific type of hardware you have installed. I had nothing but problems with WinME, two different motherboards, an ABIT and the current Iwill KK266. I had no problems installing Win2k, I never would go back to WinME, way too many crashes for me.
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I had to go back and un-install the ide driver from the 4 in 1's. Got some stuttering in DiVX playback. Everything seems fine now. CD's burn right, etc. That has been the 3rd time to try Win2000 here at home. At work no problem, but not here. I have been running ME since the 2nd beta last year. I have never had a problem with it since I banned Adaptec software from my computer, especially DirectCD. Don't get me wrong, I think that is the absolute BEST packet writing software there is. But it just does not play nice with ANYthing else in the burning category. Since I got rid of it, no problems, stable is the word.
that's an interesting comment about Adaptec. I can't get Direct Cd to work correctly on my system. When I put in a CD-RW, and it tries to format it, I either get an error, or it just formats for hours!!! Never stops, and disk is then useless (I think.) What software would you recommend?
1.2 GHz (266) Athlon
kk266-R, 256 MB CAS2 corsair
GeForce3
WIN ME
by the way, I agree with the above consensus, especially after the problems I've had - If it ain't broke, don't fix it!!
Trey
1.2 GHz (266) Athlon
kk266-R, 256 MB CAS2 corsair
GeForce3
WIN ME
by the way, I agree with the above consensus, especially after the problems I've had - If it ain't broke, don't fix it!!
Trey
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- Indianapolis, IN
Trey,
I had the same prob on my VIA mobo. Once I uninstalled the IDE drivers from VIA and used MS drivers the problem went away. I also had to DL the lates drivers from the web site. I still use Direct CD no probs at all. I like the fact that it acts like a floppy drive just copy and paste....
Good luck
I had the same prob on my VIA mobo. Once I uninstalled the IDE drivers from VIA and used MS drivers the problem went away. I also had to DL the lates drivers from the web site. I still use Direct CD no probs at all. I like the fact that it acts like a floppy drive just copy and paste....
Good luck
E
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did you guys know that a version of linux is on that disk too?
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Trey, I use NTI CD Maker 2000 Pro. It has a program called File CD in it that is the packet writing part. It is somewhat like DirectCD i that you can still drag-n-drop, only not in same window. You have to drag from Explorer to the FileCD window, then open and close the cd tray to finalize. Not quite as efficient but it works.
