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Upgraded to Win2k. Now, I've got problems!

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Rackem

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My family had been running Windows 98SE on our Dell for the past 2 1/2 years. The Dell has a 667 MHz processor and 128 MB RAM. Yesterday, I upgraded to Windows 2000 Professional and am experiencing the following problems:

1. When, the computer boots up, it now makes me select whether I want to run Windows 2000 or MS-DOS. I want to get rid of this screen and go directly into Win2k.

2. I had to redownload the graphics card drivers. The graphics card is an 32MB nVidia Geforce 256. Now, when I play online games or the screen saver kicks on, the images freeze for a few seconds every 10-15 seconds. I don't know that this is related to the graphics card or not, though. It did not do this when I was running Windows 98. Could it be that we need more RAM?

3. I set up the dial-up connection to the Internet and it doesn't save the correct password for us. There is some other long password typed in there. We have to put the correct one in to dial-up, but it won't save that one again when we reboot. I want it to save our username and password so we can just simply click "connect" to get online.

I'm trying to get these problems worked out sometime before I go back to college tomorrow, so I hope I get some quick responses. Thanks in advance 🙂
 
#1 goto control panel>system select the advanced tab and press the startup and recovery button. The easiest thing to do is change to wait a second then boot.

#2 I don't have an answer for this one

#3 Have you tried to let it dial with the long string in the password. Chances are it will work this is a security feature of 2000. I remember when I switched to 2000 I had the same problem until I figured out that is how it is supposed to be.

Semper Fi
 
1. Goto Control Panel, then System, then Advanced, than Startup & Recovery. Change the setting for default Operating System to Windows 2000, and uncheck the "show list for xx number of seconds"!

2. Try downloading the latest nVidia reference drivers, from nVidias site. Unzip those drivers (remember the location). Uninstall the currenly installed nVidia display drivers, reboot, when it finds your new hardware, tell it where to search for the new driver (the unzipped location).

3. The password (the asterisks) is in fact correct. Instead of showing you the same number of asterisks that your password it, it defaults to 8 I believe. But...it is fine. You should not need to retype the password each time you try to connect.

SemperFi is correct, I thought I would just elaborate on his post😉

G/L,

Edblor
 
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