Yep, time to buy a new sound card. I'm trying to dual-boot WinME and Windows 2000. I'm studying for my MCSE and setting up a home network to connect with my daughter's computer. I have a cable modem ISP and some webpage serving is probably in my future. Just bought a router, too! Whoopee!
But methinks my trusty old MX300 with the beta W2K drivers will not hack it - tried it in Win2K and don't like the lower sound output and flakiness.
Also, the joystick port doesn't seem to work properly, either - my V4 Force Feedback wheel (which works perfectly in WinME) is inoperable in Win2K. The wheel manufacturer doesn't have Win2K drivers and the wheel doesn't work with Win2K's standard racing wheel/pedal gaming control. I've installed all the updates and applied all the appropriate installation methods for my Abit KT7A-Raid mobo, too. Here's my system specs:
1.3 GHZ T-Bird (overclocked to 143mhz FSB at 1.8v, temp is 37C at idle)
2 sticks of 128 Meg Muskin Rev. 3 CAS 2 RAM and 1 256 Meg stick of Micron PC 133 CAS 2 RAM
1 Maxtor 30 Gig and 1 WD 30 Gig HD (Both as masters on the two RAID channels. I have not enable RAID striping, I'm just using them as additional HD controllers)
Plextor 16/10/40A
I/O Magic 56X CD ROM
3.5/1.2M combo floppy
WinTV tuner PCI card
Epson 760 USB Printer
250 Meg Iomega Paralell Port Zip Drive
1 standard Intel NIC card
UMAX Astra 2100U Scanner (Win2K doesn't like this either, but I can get it to work with the latest UMAX patches)
I'm looking at three sound cards - SB Live X-Gamer 5.1, the new $150 Hercules Theater card and the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz. I've always liked Turtle Beach (loved their A3D cards) and the recent Sound Blaster cards have given me some minor installations problems.
I'm equally into music and games and I'd like for my racing wheel to work in Win2K. Which sound card should I get?
Oh, one more thing - should I do FAT 32 or NTFS? I was thinking about FAT 32 for the WinME drive and NTFS for the Win2K drive. I also plan to use Norton Utilties and Norton Anti-Virus (though some hate Norton's, I'm an expert with it and have used it for years.)
This is a super-long post, so thanks in advance for your advice. AnandTech is the best site of its type on the web, IMHO.
But methinks my trusty old MX300 with the beta W2K drivers will not hack it - tried it in Win2K and don't like the lower sound output and flakiness.
Also, the joystick port doesn't seem to work properly, either - my V4 Force Feedback wheel (which works perfectly in WinME) is inoperable in Win2K. The wheel manufacturer doesn't have Win2K drivers and the wheel doesn't work with Win2K's standard racing wheel/pedal gaming control. I've installed all the updates and applied all the appropriate installation methods for my Abit KT7A-Raid mobo, too. Here's my system specs:
1.3 GHZ T-Bird (overclocked to 143mhz FSB at 1.8v, temp is 37C at idle)
2 sticks of 128 Meg Muskin Rev. 3 CAS 2 RAM and 1 256 Meg stick of Micron PC 133 CAS 2 RAM
1 Maxtor 30 Gig and 1 WD 30 Gig HD (Both as masters on the two RAID channels. I have not enable RAID striping, I'm just using them as additional HD controllers)
Plextor 16/10/40A
I/O Magic 56X CD ROM
3.5/1.2M combo floppy
WinTV tuner PCI card
Epson 760 USB Printer
250 Meg Iomega Paralell Port Zip Drive
1 standard Intel NIC card
UMAX Astra 2100U Scanner (Win2K doesn't like this either, but I can get it to work with the latest UMAX patches)
I'm looking at three sound cards - SB Live X-Gamer 5.1, the new $150 Hercules Theater card and the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz. I've always liked Turtle Beach (loved their A3D cards) and the recent Sound Blaster cards have given me some minor installations problems.
I'm equally into music and games and I'd like for my racing wheel to work in Win2K. Which sound card should I get?
Oh, one more thing - should I do FAT 32 or NTFS? I was thinking about FAT 32 for the WinME drive and NTFS for the Win2K drive. I also plan to use Norton Utilties and Norton Anti-Virus (though some hate Norton's, I'm an expert with it and have used it for years.)
This is a super-long post, so thanks in advance for your advice. AnandTech is the best site of its type on the web, IMHO.
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