Win 2000 Questions.

[Sh4rpy]

Please could someone answer these questions for me.

1) I have partitioned my drive like this 37gig system/16gig games/2gig ghost image/2 gig spare. I would like to know if i can use to spare 2 gig i have as a swapfile drive? Would you consider this as a good route or do you think 2gig for a swap file is exsesive? How do i use this spare drive as a swap file drive?

2) I have 2 pc's they are conecteted via an xover cable into 3com509 nics. Win2k says they are running at 100meg but occasionally they seem to disconnect from each other and then reconnect. I do have a hub but this is only 10meg. Is there a way to make the 100 connection a bit more stable or would i be better off using the hub. Previous to having win2k on my pc i had winme, when using the hub everything was stable but when i connected with the xover cable to take advantage of 100meg it would cause games to pause for a second or two so i went back to the hub.My other machine still has winme on it.

3) About internet connection sharing. I have right clicked on my dialup and set the connection to be shared, but in order for me to connect my 2 pc's to a game server will i have to do anything else or should it work fine. I have adsl connection.

 

[potz]

<< I have partitioned my drive like this 37gig system/16gig games/2gig ghost image/2 gig spare. I would like to know if i can use to spare 2 gig i have as a swapfile drive? Would you consider this as a good route or do you think 2gig for a swap file is exsesive? How do i use this spare drive as a swap file drive? >>



Usually you'll want 1.5x to 2x the amount of RAM you have. Just put it on the Win2k partition. No need for a swap partition.



<< I have 2 pc's they are conecteted via an xover cable into 3com509 nics. Win2k says they are running at 100meg but occasionally they seem to disconnect from each other and then reconnect. I do have a hub but this is only 10meg. Is there a way to make the 100 connection a bit more stable or would i be better off using the hub. Previous to having win2k on my pc i had winme, when using the hub everything was stable but when i connected with the xover cable to take advantage of 100meg it would cause games to pause for a second or two so i went back to the hub.My other machine still has winme on it. >>



Are the cards running in full duplex? Perhaps try forcing them into half duplex.



<< About internet connection sharing. I have right clicked on my dialup and set the connection to be shared, but in order for me to connect my 2 pc's to a game server will i have to do anything else or should it work fine. I have adsl connection. >>



You need to set the IP of the other machine to 192.168.0.2 or something like that, set the maching w/ the connection to 192.168.0.1, set the other machine's gateway to 192.168.0.1. There's a few more steps involved... Try searching &quot;ICS&quot; &quot;Windows 2000&quot; in Yahoo or something.

 

[Zoltarc]

Go to Administrative Tools in Conrol Panel and open up the Event Viewer.
Check under System Log for errors reguarding the network. It may tell you why it disconnected, or seemed to.

 

[Joemonkey]

moving the swap file to the spare 2 gigs won't help any. it only makes a different when you put it on a seperate physical drive rather than partition.