Win2k FCS - first impressions

[PrancingPussy]

Well, finally I got done downloading the -- what we know as -- final customer ship version of Win2k (I have a universal MSDN subscription).

The Good : UT ran absolutely fluid, comparable with Win98. I'm pleasantly surprised by that.

The weird : in 1152x864 (for some reason this is my favourite rez on my 20" Trinitron) it only allows 75Hz refresh (the other resolution have a full selection of refresh rates as they very well should)

The ugly : Right after startup, Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4.0 blue screens in G400D.DLL. This is not good.

pp

[xippo@work]

I think there may be problems with Adaptec EZ CD creator. In Win2k Pro when using EZ CD creator I get either get blue screen of death or EZ CD just hangs. Does anyone here have Win2k on EZ CD working?

xippo

[Hunsow]

I believe by people using a 16 bit desktop, according to other threads on this forum.

[Gurm]

Yup, Hunsow got it - you must run in 16-bit mode in order to use EZ-CD Creator. If you turn off the stupid tray icon thinger you can probably get by with usually running in 32-bit and just switching to 16-bit when you want to burn a CD, but...

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[noackjr]

What drivers are you using? I am also suffering from the 1152X864 75Hz refresh rate annoyance. Powerstrip to the rescue...

Jon

[PrancingPussy]

EZ CD is a nasty puppy. The only reason I bought 4.0 over the bundled 3.51 was because -- surprise -- that one made WIN2K lock up hard upon booting. My guess is that it was the ASPI driver that they installed.

FWIW : 4.0 ran fine on RC2 with my old V3/3000.

Thanks for the 16 bit tip. I will try that out as soon as I boot back in W2K.

pp

PS: I just beat that Xan bastard for the first time. Woohoo. I'm still shaking and sweating and my heartbeat must have been at least 130.

[DentyCracker]

Pranc, email me dentycracker@hotmail.com, i'll send you a file from adaptec that allows you to install 3.5. It's called cd4up.exe

[The Rock]

P.P.:

Just use another buring prog. CDRwin, Nero, EasyCD Pro all work flawlessly under Win2k.

The Rock

[waxling]

yes they work fine when burning, but I don't think they do dae... Nero 4.0.7.5 doesn't anyway, when you bring up the source drive window there are no drives listed. Copying works fine though.

[PrancingPussy]

Here's a followup: I finally got around and tried 16bit mode : works nicely. (That's good too because I was growing tired of buffer underruns in Doze).

Someone asked what drivers I'm running : I just pulled the latest beta that's linked from the MURC main page.

Re: Burning software. I really like EZCD for its explorer like interface. I think that CDRWIN is lacking a bit when you would want to put together a data CD with a custom directory layout.

pp
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