Windows XP poll!!!

[GT98]

Originally posted by GNEP
I also saw some listed with the Matrox "Hurricane" - any idea what this is?

Its the Code name/development name of the Matrox Mystique or something. The G400/G450/G550 where named after large birds...the G550 was known as the Condor and I think the G450 was known as the Tucan or something. Someone posted the names on one of the forums.

Scott

[xortam]

I haven't seen any good reason to change to XP and many reasons not to. W2K does me just fine except my HW RAID isn't supported ... nor under XP.

[Gurm]

Xortam:

Which HW RAID you got that isn't supported by 2k or xp?

- Gurm

[xortam]

Gurm ... its a Mylex FlashPoint RAID+ UW. Its supported as a SCSI controller but doesn't include the RAID functionality under W2K and XP. Looks like they've switched support to their more expensive controllers and mine isn't sold anymore.

[Pace]

2000.2

Still on Win2k here, though I like XP too. Will probably switch over soon, maybe after a SP or two

Also plan on giving Linux another shot at making a good impression on me, my Win2k server occasionally disappoints.

P.

[Technoid]

Installed it for customers,
"repaired" it for customers,
"Tested" it on my HP laptop,

Decided that it is not going near my main machine.

EVER

Period.

[Novdid]

Well I didn't mention it, but I'm one of those people who switched back to 2k after one month of xp "goodness".

The reasons were that I got myself a R7500 and the drivers 3 months ago weren't good in XP and that everything weren't stable enough. I got mysterious lockups, referesh rates didn't stick were I wanted them (ATI), and whole lot of other minor issues involving VIA and ATI (again). And I didn't like the hassle I had to go through to disable all of the piiiiip piiip "usefull" internet features that came enabled from the installation.

But to be honest, I actually liked quite a few of XP's features and will probably give it another shot after the first SP.

[SteveC]

Tried XP twice on my main PC going from Win2k both times. Both times, I ended back at Win2k within 2 days. Just didn't like it. That, and it seemed unstable compared to win2k which runs for weeks without a hiccup - XP crashes within the first hours.

Installed XP on my Vaio laptop though - only a PII 366, but it runs great on there! (192Mb RAM though)

[cbman]

I use XP on my slow-mo I call MINI-BEAST - AMD K6-2 350, 512MB Ram

It runs Great... if a bit laboured sometimes.

I ran it once on my Top of the line everything throw my paychecks at it every week machine... It ran like crap... my wife didn't like it so that machine is back to running Win98SE (Some of her games don't run that well or at all under W2K, I can fix them.. but she doesn't like me "Picking" at it.)

[Marshmallowman]

I just installed winxp over the top of win 2k, (corrupted my registry, so I thought I would see what winxp was like).

I am getting quite a few crashes (No, I %$#@ do not want to send the error to $#@ M$)
and my RAID has gone from 70Mbs to 43MB/s

When is the WinXP Service pack (over)due


Pace give Mandrake linux 8.2 ago, it has just been released and it is sweet.

March 18, 2002 - Mandrake Linux 8.2 is available

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/

[Dogbert]

Using Win2k and Win98se (mostly as a fallback to reinstall Win2k after a complete Kernel f**kup and to play old games like NFS-HS)
Not even going near XP and not intending to anywhere in the future.

[uberlad]

Using XP, up from Millenium. ALthgouh I do have a 'special' version that kinda doesn't push Passport, or require activation which makes me happier with it overall.

Occaisonally resets for no reason if my provessor is overclocked by mrore than 600MHz (Northwood 1.6A @ 2.2 - Intel you are nearly forgiven) and Opera is less stable but apart from that it's all very nice.

Although anythgin is better than Millenium.

Uberlad

[Gurm]

Marshmallowman,

If you want help sorting out those crashes, let me know. As for RAID performance, the benchmark numbers under XP are just plain ol' wrong with 90% of benchmarks, due to some tricky stuff XP does with the disks.

- Gurm

P.S. If you're running a VIA system, odds on you may need the latency patch by George Breese.

[Marshmallowman]

My computer is an epox 8kta3+
via kt133 and highpoint 370...best of the worst
two 40G 60gxp's each on there own channel, NTFS

I used ATTO bench to benchmark it.

previously using win2k it would barely get up to 40MB/s
but then the latest via 4.37a and the latest epox bios got everything pumping around 70Mb's..consistently, video editing and divxing was a dream..

so now that my win2k is near perfect...I decide to try winxp

performance averages around 43Mb's...weird thing is that the write performance according to ATTO is higher than the read performance in the 4k to 32k range(almost double).
at transfer sizes above 32k they both level out to about 41MB's

[Marshmallowman]

as to the crashes, the little registry hack for media files has sorted a out a few crashes. But I am getting very regular crashes when browsing using opera 6.01.(and IE, but I don't use it much)

I will look into the Latency patch by George Breese, but I think the latest epox's bios I got contains something similar..

And now the kicker, my brothers computer which

abit kr7a, (kt266a) does the Breese path work with 266A's?
2G of pc2100 ram
ati 8500 (le)
WD 80G HDD
xp1700+
sblive 5.1

it is 100% stable in linux and XP...but if he plays any game in XP it crashes after a random amount of time..directx or opengl