Tips and Tricks for Windows 2000 Professional

[Useful0ne]

THIS IS GREAT!!!

I wanna thank all on this forum.(especially SUO) I've been lurking around here for over 3 months, finally did the dual boot thang (98SE/2K). It went so smooth that I'm still waiting for something to go wrong. Only had 4 conflicts total but had all the 2K drivers on disk ready to update. I can see already that 98SE's days on this box are numbered.

 

[gtb55447]

Question:

I just did a benchmark test on my hard drive and it is as slow as an ATA33 drive when I have a UDMA66 controller, and the drive is connected to it. Dammit! I am going to have to search for the string to enable UDMA66 in Winblows 2000..... I will post it here once I find it, or if anyone else knows, POST IT!

gtb

 

[gtb55447]

Here is the UDMA enabling string for Intel Chipsets in Windows 2000.

If you have any ATA/66 (UDMA/66), or even better, any newer ATA/100 (UDMA/100) EIDE hard disk(s) properly connected (using a good quality 80 conductor IDE DMA66 ribbon cable) to the UltraDMA/66 (or UltraDMA/100) EIDE controller in your computer, it is strongly recommended to enable this setting, to take full advantage of the faster transfer rates these drives are capable of, which are (theoretically) close to 66.66 MB/second (100 MB/second respectively).
You must be logged on as Administrator to be able to do all this.
This option is disabled by default in all Win2000 releases, no matter what (Intel X86 platform) controller/chipset you have.
Note that this setting is NOT activated just by enabling the DMA item from: right-click on your My Computer icon -> click Properties -> Hardware tab -> Device Manager -> IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers item -> select Primary and/or Secondary IDE Channel Properties -> click Advanced Settings tab -> look under Transfer Mode for the "DMA if available" setting (you must also have "Ultra DMA Mode" active under Current Transfer Mode for this to work). Then you need to repeat these steps for ALL your other IDE Devices (drives) found here, numbered this way: Device 0, Device 1, etc. If you only have one IDE Device, select "None" for all others to decrease bootup time. Now reboot when done, so the change(s) can take effect.
To activate the ATA/66 (UDMA/66) setting, you need to run Regedit (or Regedt32) and go to:


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0000
If using Regedt32 uncheck "Read Only Mode" in the Options menu.
Note that the "0000" key above might show as "0001", "0002" or "0003" on your machine, depending on your particular hardware settings. Select the key appropriate to your case.
Right-click to create a new DWORD [REG_DWORD] Value, call it "EnableUDMA66" (no quotes), and type 1 in the Decimal box to enable ATA/66 (UDMA/66) support. To disable it, change the Decimal value to 0, or delete the "EnableUDMA66" Value altogether.
Reboot when done.

THANKS Axel!

 

[Dan]

This thread is another great example of why I frequent these forums! Thanks to all who contributed. I just started using Win2K and found all the tips very useful.

 

[gtb55447]

I just got home from the bar, actually forget that. I am glad that I started a thread that others could learn from, ahem ugh ugh BUMP!?!?

 

[gtb55447]

I still wanna know in detail how to assign memory to a specific IRQ in Windows 2000? Anyone done this esp, for a network card? Let me know.... and take care. =)

 

[gtb55447work]

Kill it or bump it? Should we let this one die?

 

[gtb55447]

bump

 

[Zab]

This is a great thread.

 

[nEoTeChMaN]

Great tips.

 

[Davegod75]

bump

 

[Voland]

Keep this thread going, there are many more tips out there.
www.regedit.com

 

[gtb55447]

Someday they should make a forum reflecting this

 

[GAZZA]

win2kmemeroytweaks

 

[gtb55447]

bump

 

[gtb55447]

kill it or bump it

 

[tchinhe]

I have a K7M and a 750 with 256MB of ram. Anybody knows why it takes about 2 minutes to load up?

 

[gtb55447]

what do you have in startup?

 

[tchinhe]

I have the SBlive Update(which I had tried to remove w/o success), speaker vol, network icon, net2phone, msn, realplayer, palm hotsync, rc5, asus probe.

 

[DioCassius]

do you guys think there are any advantages to winMe, or would you recomend win2k to everyone?

 

[superbaby]

For the person that wanted to know if you could modify the IRQ/memory settings in Win2k - it is not possible. If you do a search on MS Knowledge Base for this, you will see that if your computer is ACPI compliant (which I'm sure the majority of yours are) then during intial Win2k setup, the IRQs will be assigned arbitrarily. You won't be able to change them. The only way to do this is through some complicated tweaking:

You can get more information here on how to hack your way into changing IRQ's:

http://www.geforcefaq.com/#hw:gef:troub:all1irqw2k

But beware! I tried all these procedures and ended up with a very very corrupted copy of Win2k that wouldn't boot. I recommend not trying them. I lost a lot of data because of this =(

 

[Davegod75]

remove asus probe, realplayer, sound icon, etc. Anything you don't need to run at startup, don't. just a slow down.

Dio...w2k to everyone

 

[GAZZA]

superbaby you wont be able to change the irq's manually to your desire but you can split them up here is how
A big tnx to KUK for this ,



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It's ACPI ... Windows' power management control system. I'll tell you a way to have your IRQ's back, but prepare to have some install disks ready. It won't format, but all your hardware will be rescanned and reinstalled.

Go to Control panel / System / Hardware.
Click on &quot;Device Manager&quot;.
Double click &quot;Computer&quot;, then right click &quot;Advanced Configuration blablabla&quot;.
Go to Driver, then click on &quot;update driver&quot;.
Click next.
Select &quot;Display a list of blablabla&quot;.
Wait.
Click on &quot;Show all hardware...&quot;.
Select Standard PC.
Now just follow the steps. After you reboot, all your hardware will be rescaned and stuff.


Some guy said that his Quake III performance doubled after this, mainly because his VGA card was sharing the same IRQ with sound/NIC/modem/usb stuff. >>




I did this and gained quite a few fps in q3 as much as 9/10 improvement as i had 7 items sharing the same irq

 

[gtb55447work]

bump

 

[easternerd]

hi guys ,
Now look u wont believe me when i say something is this
satisfying u enough!
This IRQ Specification works out like a wonder !
U really should try this out!
Seeya!