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To: R Jennings who wrote (11126)	7/29/2000 3:14:56 PM
From: mr.mark	of 14778

fwiw... and as follow up, after installing shutz 2000 last night, i have good news and bad news. bad news is the "click left to shutdown" has caused windoze to hang twice. (it has also worked fine 2-3 times.) i never had shutdown hangs prior to shutz 2000. the good news is that the "click right to restart" has worked fine each time. you might say, well that's a lot of times to be shutting down and rebooting in such a short period <g3>. but i am kinda' test driving the freeware, and i also tend to shut down a lot more than i used to because of increased awareness of cable modem vulnerability. anyway, i will keep shutz 2000 around for awhile for restart purposes and use the "C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE user.exe,exitwindows" shortcut in my quicklaunch toolbar for one-click shutdowns. :) mark

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To: mr.mark who wrote (11128)	7/29/2000 6:14:49 PM
From: wily	of 14778

If you hold down the shift key during a normal restart, you avoid the bios part of the boot routine -- it's about twice as fast. Re the BH6 upgrade: I have a BH6 myself w/ a Celeron300@450. It's like an old shoe now and I've lost the urge to upgrade. What the previous poster said sounds like a good path, though, and I would be tempted. I also want to get into Win2K, but I think my board is holding me back. What I'd really like is a BP6 with 2 C2's overclocked in the 800 range, running win2K. I think it can be done now, but I haven't checked. Regarding the problem of the cpu won't overclock anymore: first things that spring to mind are power supply and memory seating (try reseating the memory, making sure that the contacts on board and memory are clean). Other than that I'm at a loss (how unusual). Anybody running win2K on a BH6? wily

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To: mr.mark who wrote (11128)	7/29/2000 6:27:23 PM
From: R Jennings	of 14778

Mark, I've never used that catagory of programs but thanks for the feedback. For people that have cable modems that are concerned about security a guy named steve gibson wrote a web page that shows what information your computer is exposing to the world. WARNING useing the links on the page referenced may cause your system to crash. Mine never has however most people have normal systems <G>. grc.com steve also reccomends a program called zone alarm which is a freeware fire wall. I was never able to get it to run reliably on my system however as I said my system isn't normal Anyway this site (www.grc.com) is a favorite of mine so look around you might find something you like. Happy investing !. Edit I don't know why I can't put a link in but guess you'll have to cut and paste. Sorry.

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To: wily who wrote (11131)	7/29/2000 10:55:56 PM
From: Greg from Edmonton	of 14778

What I'd really like is a BP6 with 2 C2's overclocked in the 800 range, running win2K. I think it can be done now, but I haven't checked. As far as I've heard the C2 will NOT do SMP, and getting FC-PGA P3's to run on a BP6 using Powerleap Neo S370 adapters is sketchy at best.... The following URL has most of the details: bp6.gamesquad.net There are other dual processor boards available now (or very soon) that natively support the FC-PGA format. The new ones typically have 133MHz FSB and at least ATA-66, some even offer RAID and ATA-100. The (Microstar / MSI) MS-6321 looks interesting in the dual FC-PGA arena spec-wise with ATA-100, 133 FSB, and AGP4X. But I admit I'm not really in the market for one so I haven't been keeping up to see which board is currently "the one to get". I will agree though, that the ABIT BP6 offered tremendous bang for the buck in its day (dual Celerons with ATA-66 support and excellent overclocking ability). I'm still quite happy with mine, 2 C366 at 528MHz (96MHz FSB and 2.0V).

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