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I've just built a new system based around a 2.26 GHz Pentium 4 with an Asus P4B533-E motherboard and on board RAID.
For a few years I’ve been running a multiboot system using System Commander. Prior to rebuilding my PC I had a 98se partition for music, a 2K partition for video and an XP partition for everything else, games web browsing etc... With the new system I wanted to continue using Win2K for video and move all the music applications over to this partition as well, but for some reason I couldn't get Win2K to work with my new combination of hardware, it just would reboot itself every time I tried to install all the drivers, in quite a random manor, this was after installing XP & 98se succefully. So I gave up on Win2K after much frustration and decided to give XP a go for the video editing. I can now say that it all seems to be running fine & I haven't had any problems so far. I know that a lot of people have been having a hard time trying to get there Marvel g400s working correctly in 2K and XP, but I seem to have managed it.
Here's what I did:
I first of all installed the Win2K driver v5.39, and then I installed Video tools v2.04 using the Wise install routine which I found this link to http://home.planet.nl/~editor/website1007.htm on a previous forum thread. The reason for doing this is to avoid the interruption message I and some other people have been getting when trying to install the Vid tools available from the Matrox driver section. The next thing I did was to replace the RRIcm.dll with the same dll from the leaked Vid tools v2.04beta available from the Murc Vid Tools download section, this enables the YUY2 capture feature. Finally because I like to play online gaming, Half-Life etc... and seemed to be getting random freeze ups during game play which when XP rebooted would give me a message blaming the crash on display drivers, I upgraded the drivers to v5.72. This is actually a Millennium G400 driver but it’s the most recent Microsoft certified driver so I figured it would be stable and to my surprise everything seems to be functioning correctly. The one problem I do get is that if I capture using AVI format in Media Studio Pro or DVD factory, I get an interlace problem, this can be corrected using Virtual Dub or a similar application, or I can capture using the Windows 98se partition and the original Hardware MJPEG codec. MP2 capture is perfect at 704x576 at any bit rate without any dropped frames
Hope this info helps
I've just built a new system based around a 2.26 GHz Pentium 4 with an Asus P4B533-E motherboard and on board RAID.
For a few years I’ve been running a multiboot system using System Commander. Prior to rebuilding my PC I had a 98se partition for music, a 2K partition for video and an XP partition for everything else, games web browsing etc... With the new system I wanted to continue using Win2K for video and move all the music applications over to this partition as well, but for some reason I couldn't get Win2K to work with my new combination of hardware, it just would reboot itself every time I tried to install all the drivers, in quite a random manor, this was after installing XP & 98se succefully. So I gave up on Win2K after much frustration and decided to give XP a go for the video editing. I can now say that it all seems to be running fine & I haven't had any problems so far. I know that a lot of people have been having a hard time trying to get there Marvel g400s working correctly in 2K and XP, but I seem to have managed it.
Here's what I did:
I first of all installed the Win2K driver v5.39, and then I installed Video tools v2.04 using the Wise install routine which I found this link to http://home.planet.nl/~editor/website1007.htm on a previous forum thread. The reason for doing this is to avoid the interruption message I and some other people have been getting when trying to install the Vid tools available from the Matrox driver section. The next thing I did was to replace the RRIcm.dll with the same dll from the leaked Vid tools v2.04beta available from the Murc Vid Tools download section, this enables the YUY2 capture feature. Finally because I like to play online gaming, Half-Life etc... and seemed to be getting random freeze ups during game play which when XP rebooted would give me a message blaming the crash on display drivers, I upgraded the drivers to v5.72. This is actually a Millennium G400 driver but it’s the most recent Microsoft certified driver so I figured it would be stable and to my surprise everything seems to be functioning correctly. The one problem I do get is that if I capture using AVI format in Media Studio Pro or DVD factory, I get an interlace problem, this can be corrected using Virtual Dub or a similar application, or I can capture using the Windows 98se partition and the original Hardware MJPEG codec. MP2 capture is perfect at 704x576 at any bit rate without any dropped frames
Hope this info helps
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