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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (3757)	11/27/1998 9:00:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>I've gotten into a routine ... Clarence, you should take all these heavy-handed sounding things in the spirit I am certain they were meant, that is, most of us have found that it's more productive to leave our machines running than to turn them off. I know these were presented in challenging ways (we're not the most, um, diplomatic types around here <ggg>). Nevertheless, constructively meant. I can empathize with this post of yours, sort of defending "I am me". BTW, you did it very well. The periodic scan is not a false security blanket, but it's maybe not the most effective one either (it only gives you warning after the bottom edge of the blanket's unraveled, to continue the metaphor). Think about how you might put away a spare, whole blanket from time to time as a possibly better use of protective resources, maybe. Not exclusive of other security measures, either. Spots

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (3757)	11/28/1998 9:59:00 PM
From: Clarence Dodge	Respond to of 14778

Matrox G200/ 450mhz oc'ers Has anyone running the 300a @ 450mhz with a G200 Vid @ 2/3 FSB had this problem: (Quoted Material) Posted by Dr.P on November 05, 1998 at 16:21:26: Hi All, I have a Celeron 300A in a Abit BH6 m/b, overclocked to 450 Mhz. I didn't realize it 'til recently, but the Matrox G200 videocard in my machine isn't running at AGP 2x (I confirmed this by running "SiSoft Sandra", a comprehensive benchmarking utility). Have any of you with a similar config noticed this?? When my CPU is o/c to 450 MHz, I have tried to set the 'AGP/CLK' setting in my BH6 BIOS to 2/3 (that is, 100 x 2/3 = 66 MHz for the AGP bus, which is supposedly required for achieving AGP 2x). The problem with this is that at the 2/3 setting (with CPU at 450), the G200 card becomes quite unstable, showing visual artifacts (garbage) in 2-D at times, and frequently crashing when in 3-D mode (under Win98, using the latest G200 drivers, v.4.26, and with DX6 installed). However, if I set the AGP/CLK setting to 1/1 (that is, the speed of the AGP bus is 100 MHz) when my CPU is o/c at 450, my G200 seems to run flawlessly, both in 2-D and 3-D... but only in AGP 1X! (N/B, I always have my CPU core voltage at 2.1 V... upping it even as high as 2.3 seems to make no difference as far as this AGP speed issue is concerned...) I have tried testing a friend's G200 in my system at both the AGP/CLK settings of 2/3 and 1/1 with my CPU at 450, but get the same results... no AGP 2x when o/c at 450 :( For all non-graphical intensive operations, the computer at 450 MHz (with AGP/CLK set to 1/1) is extremely stable. It's only this AGP 2x issue that is causing me grief. Finally, if I run my Celeron 300A at its default speed of 300 (4.5x66) with AGP/CLK set to 1/1 (=66 MHz AGP bus speed) I do get AGP 2x. Does anyone have any ideas as to what my problem could be, and how I could possibly get the AGP 2x mode to work with my CPU o/c to 450? Thanks a lot in advance for any help! -Dr.P. P.S. I have tried a G200 hack of putting a Registry setting "AGPFlags = -1" which I saw on the Matrox Users Web site (www.matroxusers.com)... while that did force my system to AGP 2x while at 450, it was extremely unstable and wasn't practical. (end quoted material) Followups to this post have indicated it being common to G200 oc'ers although more so amongst Socket 7 users. I was just wondering if the slot 1 users here have experienced this problem. Clarence

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (3757)	11/29/1998 10:49:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Clarence, When are you backups gonna run when your computer is off?? Its easy to program your computer to reboot itself.... Sean Sample Batch file for NT. Uses a UTIL off the NT Resource Kit CD. I use this to reboot all my NT boxes once a week to run chkdsk. @echo off echo y \| chkdsk c: /f echo y \| chkdsk d: /f echo y \| chkdsk e: /f echo y \| chkdsk f: /f net send /domain:netmedia NT Workstation QCONTINUUM rebooting in 1 minutes shutdown /r /t:90 /l "NT Domain Workstation CONTINUUM rebooting in 1 minutes" /y