Windows 2K gives me Wood!

ST4RCUTTER

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I just thought I'd brag. Been up an running for a month straight! Not a single reboot and the system is as fast and responsive as when I first hit the power button a month ago. Windows XP...NOT!

Oh yeah...and this is an AMD system. Rock on AMD!
 

ST4RCUTTER

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Relax man, I had to do some updates that required reboot before that, and there's another critical update that I need to do that will sadly bring my 1 month, straight running to a close. You can leave your computer up and vulnerable but not me...time to update and reboot.:(
 

OracleKnowledge

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My Linux server has been up for 237days 5hours 37minutes 53seconds....and counting....
Linux has no problem getting it up and staying up!
 

JackBurton

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Hey I can keep MS DOS running for 10yrs straight but it's not as flexible as Windows2000 is it. ;)
 

n0cmonkey

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<< My Linux server has been up for 237days 5hours 37minutes 53seconds....and counting....
Linux has no problem getting it up and staying up!
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Unless you want a kernel that is reasonably somewhat up to date or fix security problems. Nice uptime but uptime doesn't mean anything in the long run...
 

Rogue

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I had a WinNT 4.0 SP5 server with an uptime of 437 days. Got one right now that's approaching 300 days.
 

n0cmonkey

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<< I had a WinNT 4.0 SP5 server with an uptime of 437 days. Got one right now that's approaching 300 days. >>



You must not use IIS :p
 

Rogue

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It was an application server. I have seen IIS servers go for months without rebooting also. The typical reason to reboot IIS is a result of either poor programming or third party applications that chew through your memory to the point that there is none left for pages to load. The new version of Crystal Reports that we were forced to put on our IIS server has a little problem where after it creates a report and loads it into memory, it stays there until you explicitly tell it to destroy itself. Naturally, the programmers are reluctant to believe the lowly &quot;Sys Admins&quot; and listen to us. IIS is as stable as you make it. That's comes with a combination of good programming, research and extensive beat testing of web apps.
 

jcmkk

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I've had my Windows 98SE system running for 3 months without a crash/Reboot, beat that
 

Blayze

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<< I've had my Windows 98SE system running for 3 months without a crash/Reboot, beat that >>



:Q

If that is true I dont think you can beat that!

anyway the most I have seen a 98 machine up for was around a week. It was super unstable after a week as well.
 

ST4RCUTTER

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Rogue,

Naw, I can believe jcmkk had Win98SE up for 3 months. BSOD don't count though.
;)

Seriously though, if I tried running Win98SE on any system for a week or more it was everything it could do to just hold itself together in memory...can you say sluggish as a drunken gnome in a puddle of mud?
 

acexg1

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St4rcutter, do you play a lot of games on this w2k system? I do, and I'm lucky to keep win98se going for more than a few days. If I can play games on w2k, and it will still remain stable, I might have to go for it.
 

sweb

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I've installed win2000 sp1 with a dual boot setup. Everything was fine, so made 2000 my primary OS. Things seemed fined till I started to play alot of games on it, it would restart by itself. Would not restart with windows apps, just games or emulators. went back to 98 to see if it was a hardware problem, everything fine after 3 months. craved to have 2000 back on and sp2 came out. reformat, sp2, all updates, everything was running sweet. tried black and white, holy monkey cum it restarted again, grrrr!!! strangest thing. I'm running abit bx6 rev 2.0, PIII 750 O.C. to 1.0 gig. mushkin cas2 rev1.5, sound blaster live xgamer 5.1, maxtor 30 gig drive, geforce2 pro. Yes I've tried to not overclock, and same result, even with different processors and mobos. freakin' freaky, killing me I love win2000 to, bsod and resources are back for me. has any one heard of this problem?
 

thraxes

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Yep... friend of mine and his 900 AMD T-Bird on a ABIT-KT7raid with TNT2 card... constant reboots even with SP2 :cool:
Me has also got W2K (SP1) and have no probs whatsoever (P3-800@960 , ASUS P2B-F, TNT2pro.

Have tried figuring out why it does this but I do know this: We used the latest drivers (except Nvidias 650 version, it sux bigtime -BSOD with direct show apps- so we use 646 on both our systems) and got the latest BIOS with no success. Gonna call ABIT next week, amusingly my freind doesn't have the option of going back to 98, he needs W2K for his job and he doesn't want to wrestle with a dual boot setup.
 

ST4RCUTTER

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Yep... friend of mine and his 900 AMD T-Bird on a ABIT-KT7raid with TNT2 card... constant reboots even with SP2
Me has also got W2K (SP1) and have no probs whatsoever (P3-800@960 , ASUS P2B-F, TNT2pro.


Take a look at my Rigs. I'm running on an AMD 900/ABIT-KT7-R combo and it's stable as a rock! If you're using Black/White to test for stability, you've got a problem already. Black &amp; White is probably the buggiest game I've seen since the original Qwest for Glory series. B/W has a patch out but I think it's still in beta. As for games in general, I've had no problems running Diablo II and CS. I'm not a huge gamer though, at least not like I used to be. Thraxes, if your friend is getting constant reboots, I would suggest he check his powersupply or CPU temp.
 

n0cmonkey

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<< It was an application server. I have seen IIS servers go for months without rebooting also. The typical reason to reboot IIS is a result of either poor programming or third party applications that chew through your memory to the point that there is none left for pages to load. The new version of Crystal Reports that we were forced to put on our IIS server has a little problem where after it creates a report and loads it into memory, it stays there until you explicitly tell it to destroy itself. Naturally, the programmers are reluctant to believe the lowly &quot;Sys Admins&quot; and listen to us. IIS is as stable as you make it. That's comes with a combination of good programming, research and extensive beat testing of web apps. >>



I just mean the one a month security holes...
 

gunf1ghter

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There's an entire thread running right now on what games won't run with win2k.... guess what, people aren't coming up with too many.

Drivers are in abundance, any piece of hardware less than 3 yrs old should have drivers available.
 

cdrsft

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I have been running W2K for a few years now, even from its early beta stages........ I can tell you that it's at its absolute prime right now in terms of stability and compatibility (SP2)... it always takes a while for mfg's to get a good stable 3rd party support for a new OS, and I think its just hitting that point now.

Last year at this time, I couldnt run one of my peripherals or play my favorite game..... now I can do both. Three cheers for W2K!