Hello all

Since I test 3dfx prototypes under windows 2000 alot, I am willing to install 2K Pro+ SP4 on the following:

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FIREFOX

AMD K8 Athlon64 X2 4400+ Toledo Dual Core 2.2Ghz , 2x 1MB L2, S939.
ASUS A8R32 MVP Deluxe ATi RD580 + ATi CrossFire Express 3200
1x Corsair XMS Platinum TwinX2048PTC2 2x 1GB PC3200 CAS2 DDR400
Sapphire ATi Radeon X1900 XTX PCI-E 512MB 256Bit GDDR3 1.1ns Rev.A 0552 8)
3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 PCI 64MB 128Bit SDR 6ns Rev.A1 2900 Prototype Secondary VGA
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy2 Platinum

does Win2K Pro support the ATi RD580 chipset, Athlon64 X2 DualCore CPU, will 2K see 2 CPU's and not one?

Just want to know for sure, these prototypes mean everything to me, and XP does not run that well on them 2K Pro does, the idea is to test 3dfx cards and Prototypes in newer systems and test thier scalabillity.

well there are some problems with 2K with the X1900 XTX and the SB Audigy2 Platinum and there is this unkown device which actually is the rage theater 550 chip, but even when I install the latest Omega driver 6.5 and the Cat 6.5 WDM driver set it does not install the 550 chip. On the Ati ti200 thing dunno what that is either.

for the rest the installation went okay, I think that the X1900 XTX is too new for this system it WDM part that is. the VMAC 5500 Proto went fine as well.
So I think it's back to XP then there the X1900 XTX went fine and so did the audigy2 platinum, unless there is something else I can do?

here are some pics I made:
 

The Athlon64 X2 4400+ has been neatly detected so has the 2GB ram only in KB hehe.

So is there a way to avoid XP and fix my problem with my ATi card and would it matter If I use the official Ati drivers instead of the omega's which I rather prefer because it has a simple control panel.

need some help on that gameport also, dunno if it is such a threat since I use an USB Joystick, it's just that I'd like to have everything neatly installed so now I'm a bit lost here, ran out of options.

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It was "Data Center" I think ???

2K Server    of course

hmm 2K server isn't the Issue neither is my CPU , it's the unknown devices and that gameport I look'n for answers not  OS'es hehe

Win2K Pro is the only thing I have , wasn't planned to go for XP Pro, that OS made too many problems, normally I never have probs with pro, I mean the system does run stable but it would look neater to get those things installed propperly.

I need some help with that please, hmm it always used to work with the X800XT PE setup on the dual Opteron, only on this system somehow it only get's half installed:


you go to propperties of that item then update driver sellect it manually from the creative Audigy2 CD and then i find the righjt file according to my system's finder then I install that reboot and again it's installed halfly with a yellow ! on that item.

So that bugs me a little, the theater 550 WDM bugs me most aak the Unknown device
it says that I must disable something, that is something I never seen either oh dear.

hmm yeah think so too but shouldn't that be done automaticly by the system it's self, what I do know is that my mobo has an onboard SB as well dunno if that has something to do with this prob though.

p.s.
congrats of gett'n a Gold Member Strats  8)

hmm partually , i did last time when I had XP Pro on it, XP had no probs with the unknown stuff and game port, wierd that 2K Pro would have this problem and XP Pro not dunno if the difference between those OS'es are that big qua Hardware support?

but yeah I'll take a walk though the bios and see if there are things enabled which should not be Thanx for that one  8)

I don't know if your board has any serial and or parallel ports. We don't use those much these days. You can disable those and free up some resources

It looks like you could disable both the the serial header port and the parallel/printer port. And I do allow the PCI VGA an IRQ.

See if that helps with the game port.