Finally, I got win2k working nearly perfect with my abit kt7a and 1 gig tbird at 1133.
 
My initial problems were:
Very low sisoft sandra, quake3 scores, choppy graphics, would not run F1cs2k, horrible pauses with mpegs, horrible peformance in 3d rendering apps no sound with my vortex2, no zip drive writing, and not being able to shut down with out pulling the plug.
 
This made me resort to using.. wi.. wi.. win98 (hate to say those nasty words!) as my OS of choice.
 
I even reformatted twice and installed win2k pro and each time, the same results. Well, I started poking around the BIOS and found a few CPU performance tweak in the softmenu screen. I selected them just to see what they would do. I went back into win2k and lo and behold, I WAS SMOKIN'!!!
 
Sisoft scores went from 2500 to 3150!! Quake3 from 93 to 130!! No more choppy stuttering graphics in any games. F1cs2k ran smooth as silk, no more pauses in Mpegs, windows finally shuts down properl, great performance with 3d rendering. And get this.. I now have sound with a vortex2 in all of my games!!
 
Man, I feel the love!!! Kickin the win98 OS to the curb and I can love again!!