I have WIN2k, What about WINME?
I have been running WIN2000 for over a year now, and I am slowly getting fed up with it. My joystick seems to cause games to pause (due to IRQ Sharing) and I am noticing my Virtual Memory giving me warnings in games that the minimum Virtual Memory is to low (when I have 256 Megs ram) Is it possible for me to instal ...
I have been running WIN2000 for over a year now, and I am slowly getting fed up with it. My joystick seems to cause games to pause (due to IRQ Sharing) and I am noticing my Virtual Memory giving me warnings in games that the minimum Virtual Memory is to low (when I have 256 Megs ram)
Is it possible for me to installed WINME after I installed win2k? If so, how do i do this to get a dual boot?
Is it possible for me to installed WINME after I installed win2k? If so, how do i do this to get a dual boot?
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Alec is right there is alot that can be done to boost the performance of your system. Going back to Win Me is a pain but a dual boot setup is nice. You can install win me if you have free partition and your boot volume is fat32. you may need to boot off of the windows 2000 cd after winme is installed and do a repair to get your win2k boot loader back.
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My System
Dell Demension XPS T500
Triple Boot
Windows 2000 Pro 2195
Windows Whistler Pro 2428
Windows Millennium Final Retail
PIII @ 500 Mhz (with after market heatsink and dual fan)
512 Megs Ram
Guillemot Maxi Gammer Cougar (TNT2 M64 w/ 32 Megs of RAM)
Matrox Millennium PCI (w/ 4 Megs of RAM for second monitor)
3Com Etherlink XL 10/100 Ethernet Card
2 x Abit Hot Rod Pro ATA-100 RAID Controlers
2 x 12.6 Gig Maxtor Hard Disks RAID 0 (for system)
1 76.3 Gig Maxtor Hard Disk (for storage)
40X LG CD Rom Drive
100 Mb Iomega Internal Zip Drive
MS Explorer Mouse
MS Natural Keyboard Pro
And not a single piece of software that I actually own
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My System
Dell Demension XPS T500
Triple Boot
Windows 2000 Pro 2195
Windows Whistler Pro 2428
Windows Millennium Final Retail
PIII @ 500 Mhz (with after market heatsink and dual fan)
512 Megs Ram
Guillemot Maxi Gammer Cougar (TNT2 M64 w/ 32 Megs of RAM)
Matrox Millennium PCI (w/ 4 Megs of RAM for second monitor)
3Com Etherlink XL 10/100 Ethernet Card
2 x Abit Hot Rod Pro ATA-100 RAID Controlers
2 x 12.6 Gig Maxtor Hard Disks RAID 0 (for system)
1 76.3 Gig Maxtor Hard Disk (for storage)
40X LG CD Rom Drive
100 Mb Iomega Internal Zip Drive
MS Explorer Mouse
MS Natural Keyboard Pro
And not a single piece of software that I actually own
JBoDean: did you go to or from any 3dfx card recently since youve installed win2k. 3dfx cards seem to be very touchy about any other card, including another 3dfx card, in the system after or before it.
To do a dual boot you have to have another partition on your hard drive. If you dont, get ahold of a partitioning utility like partition magic 6 and use that to set your partitions up.
Then install ME on the other partition. Once youre done, run the repair option off the win2k cd (you boot off it and hit 'R' instead of 'Enter'). Then under win2k you can set the default OS by right clicking My Computer/properties/Advanced tab/starup and recovery.
Its recommended that you set your virtual memory to a minimum of 1.5xram to Maximum of 2xram. You can change the IRQs, but youd have to reinstall win2k if you did that.I learned that the hard way. I really wouldnt suggest trying to change IRQs.
Oh, make sure you defrag your hard drive. If possible, put your swap file (virtual memory) on a separate partition. This will keep it from getting fragmented too much, if at all.
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Asus A7V
Duron 600@680
384 MB SDRAM PC133@113MHz
Samsung 48x CD-ROM
Toshiba 12x DVD-ROM
Zip CD650 USB 4/4/6
Zip 100 USB
Maxtor 20.4 GB ATA100
Voodoo 4 4500 AGP
Guillemot Maxi Sound Fortissimo
SIIG 3 port 1394 PCI Adapter
D-Link DFE-530 10/100 NIC
Creative Cambridge Soundworks FPS1000
MS Intellimouse Optical
Kleer 17-inch @ 85Hz 1152x864x32 desktop
To do a dual boot you have to have another partition on your hard drive. If you dont, get ahold of a partitioning utility like partition magic 6 and use that to set your partitions up.
Then install ME on the other partition. Once youre done, run the repair option off the win2k cd (you boot off it and hit 'R' instead of 'Enter'). Then under win2k you can set the default OS by right clicking My Computer/properties/Advanced tab/starup and recovery.
Its recommended that you set your virtual memory to a minimum of 1.5xram to Maximum of 2xram. You can change the IRQs, but youd have to reinstall win2k if you did that.I learned that the hard way. I really wouldnt suggest trying to change IRQs.
Oh, make sure you defrag your hard drive. If possible, put your swap file (virtual memory) on a separate partition. This will keep it from getting fragmented too much, if at all.
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Whaazzzupppppppppp!
Asus A7V
Duron 600@680
384 MB SDRAM PC133@113MHz
Samsung 48x CD-ROM
Toshiba 12x DVD-ROM
Zip CD650 USB 4/4/6
Zip 100 USB
Maxtor 20.4 GB ATA100
Voodoo 4 4500 AGP
Guillemot Maxi Sound Fortissimo
SIIG 3 port 1394 PCI Adapter
D-Link DFE-530 10/100 NIC
Creative Cambridge Soundworks FPS1000
MS Intellimouse Optical
Kleer 17-inch @ 85Hz 1152x864x32 desktop
