--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: E3B00000 Date: 03/06/97 From: CAROLE CAPUANO Time: 06:33am \/To: CHARLES SCAGLIONE (Read 6 times) Subj: RE: another hotfix On Mar 05, 1997 05:23pm, CHARLES SCAGLIONE wrote to CAROLE CAPUANO: CS> CAROLE CAPUANO wrote to DOUG SHARP about RE: another hotfix CC>>My question is as the x2 technology has been released and I need to CC>>update 3 modems: has it been tested with NT 4.0? This is a need to CC>>know as I have to call into USR to do the final update and it will CC>>required direct hardware access. CS> Carole: CS> I'm not sure of your question.. but if you mean will the X2 update work CS> under NT 4.0, then the answer is yes. After applying the proper flash CS> ROM update, I called into USR and obtained the security code. (I CS> received my access code by E-Mail from USR) yes that's what I was asking, I will be calling in to USR via Hyperterminal o do the updates. My ISP will have an x2 server in April. CS> When you call the number they give in the E-Mail message, it will CS> automatically interact with your modem and install the security code. so you can directly access hardware in NT via a terminal program, that was my concern. CS> Now, whether or not I'll ever actually be able to receive data at the CS> new speed is another question. With the "dirty" lines I have here in CS> the Dallas area, I rather doubt it. It's difficult enough to connect at CS> 28,800. Same here, but only on 1 of 3 lines, one is clean. Within my town to one of my downlinks I'm actually getting 31200 without fiber optics. Thanks for the info. ...Carole ... Platinum Xpress/WINS/WinNT 4.0..... No Dups Here! --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0 * Origin: The Butterfly INS/NT (1:2604/512) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: E3B00001 Date: 03/06/97 From: CAROLE CAPUANO Time: 06:37am \/To: DOUG SHARP (Read 6 times) Subj: RE: another hotfix On Mar 05, 1997 06:47pm, DOUG SHARP wrote to CAROLE CAPUANO: ->> My question is as the x2 technology has been released and I need to ->> update 3 ->> modems: has it been tested with NT 4.0? This is a need to know as I have ->> to ->> call into USR to do the final update and it will required direct hardware ->> access. DS> I don't think that they have consider RAS setup as yet... but since I'm DS> using Rocketports and not dialing using RAS service here, I feel pretty DS> safe proceeding in a week or so. I know RAS initially had a problem with DS> USR modems and 33.6/28.8 when that first came out. I'll be able to test RAS in April, my new ISP will have an x2 server vailable then, I was asking about updating via my terminal program. I thought I was clear on that, but one never knows :) DS> What I plan to do is move the modems one by one to a another box here to DS> do the actual key updates. The ROM flashes seem to take better from DS> there as well so I'll flash them right before calling. It seems a bit DS> wacky to me to require the key since they are giving the updates away DS> for about a 18 month beta before the ITU does doodle with it. Now that DS> they are also 3Com I'm glad we're a dealer with both. What "BOX" are you using, OS? DS> I'm not expecting much except Rockwell callers having problems DS> personally. :) All the Couriers, ZyXELs and Sportsters we've sold should DS> just log right in. ZyXEL on the other hand is planning on using the DS> Rockwell technology soon. I can see another V.FAST thing looming on the DS> horizon. ACK. ACK. PHTTT! (bad taste in mouth) :) ...Carole ... Platinum Xpress/WINS/WinNT 4.0..... No Dups Here! --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0 * Origin: The Butterfly INS/NT (1:2604/512) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: E3B00002 Date: 03/06/97 From: BOB DAVIS Time: 07:37am \/To: ALAN ZISMAN (Read 6 times) Subj: 95 audio CD problem BD>Check www.ibm.pc.com/listfiles.html AZ> No luck... by the way it's: AZ> http://www.pc.ibm.com/searchfiles.html AZ> but I was unable to find anything searching various AZ> combinations of: AZ> ESS AZ> ES688 AZ> Thinkpad AZ> Drivers AZ> Audio AZ> Sound That's why I sent you to Listfiles.html. Searching is fruitless unless you know IBM speak. I'm sorry I didn't get the filename for you originally. Its totally obscure. I mean how are you supposed to know that its the audio device driver for a model 760EL. :-) I doubt its going to work for you, but its free. :-) I'll email it to you. If you don't get it, the filename is aftp4wnt.exe. Bob --- timEd/2-B11 * Origin: The Fireside BBS Houston TX (281)496-6319 (1:106/114) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: E3B00003 Date: 03/06/97 From: CHRIS HOLTEN Time: 06:49am \/To: ROB THIELEN (Rcvd) (Read 8 times) Subj: NT 4.0 CD-ROM SETUP RT> the CD-ROM drive. Install program first recognized a CD-ROM drive & RT> reported, "Found: IDE CD-ROM (ATAPI 1.2)/PCI IDE Controller." RT> Then setup reported being "unable to locate a CD-ROM drive" and RT> PCI M/B w/ Intel Pentium 133 & 64MB RAM. CD-ROM drive is Creative RT> Labs IDE 6x Model "CD620E" and the Creative FTP site says the NT 4.0 RT> driver for that drive is included with the operating system (NT 4.0). RT> The drive has the IDE interface & is connected to a SoundBlaster RT> AWE 32 sound card ( using ISA bus slot). Could that be the problem? RT> Seem like the setup program is trying to find the drive on one of RT> the PCI IDE controller channels. Any help is greatly appreciated! RT> Thanks in advance, RT> Rob Thielen Put it on the 2nd IDE channel of the motherboard and forget using Creative's IDE adapter. Some CD-ROM must be setup as master for NT to recognize them. Most don't, but if you don't have any other devices on the 2nd IDE channel, set your CD-ROM up as the master. --- Maximus/NT 3.01b1 * Origin: 33,600bps Windows NT _Powered_! (1:303/1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: E3B00004 Date: 03/06/97 From: CHRIS HOLTEN Time: 06:53am \/To: ALAN ZISMAN (Read 6 times) Subj: Ess 688 CH>Same experience here Alan. I use the creative labs SB 16 drivers, set t CH>220,I5, 300 DMA 1 and it works fine. It can vary from CH>machine to machine depending on how the PnP is setup in the CH>BIOS. It -always- defaults to IRQ 5. There are some DOS CH>utils that come with the ESS drivers that will let you see CH>what Base, IRQ, DMA an midi settings your card, in your CH>system defaults too when booted to DOS. Don't load any SC CH>drivers. Just BOOT to DOS command prompt safe mode to CH>determine the default settings the card is initially at and CH>make those your settings for NT. I had better luck with the CH>SB16 drivers than the ESS 1688 drivers in NT. AZ> Yep... I replaced the ES1868 card in my desktop w. an SB16PnP... but it's AZ> harder to replace the audio in the laptop! AZ> I would have thought the settings that work in W95 would work in NT, but AZ> that doesn't seem to be the case. That's because W95 utilizes PnP and can dynamically change the sound cards settings to fit the system so depending on what else you have in the system, the base address and IRQ's may not be the default power-up ones. NT doesn't use PnP so the card can't be dynamically configured as with W95. You have to set it up in NT with whatever manufacturor default IRQ's and address the card comes up with at power up. S'why I suggested booting DOS with no drivers loaded and using the DOS util's for that card to see what IRQ's and base address the card comes up with and then setting NT up to those parameters. It's the only way I think you can get a non-manually configurable PnP device to work in any operating system that doesn't support PnP. Non-manually configurable ISA PnP devices are Idiotic. The ISA bus just doesn't have the intelligence for it, but it makes good marketing hype eh? Maybe next year.... --- Maximus/NT 3.01b1 * Origin: 33,600bps Windows NT _Powered_! (1:303/1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: E3B00005 Date: 03/06/97 From: BERNARD LHEUREUX Time: 10:21pm \/To: ALL (Read 6 times) Subj: Coud you help me ? XC: WIN.BF, WIN32 Hello All, quoi d'neuf, Doc ? I would like to open a dos box from another dos box (batch file) under Windows 95 or NT 4, how could I do that ? Thanks a lot to answer me as fast as possible because it's very urgent for me.... ernar Salut All et au plaisir de te relire...! > InterNET E-Mail adress: MailTo:Bernard.Lheureux@BMedia.be > MailTo:Bbs.Software.IV@BMedia.be --- GoldED/386 2.51.A0901+, Serial n: 5714BE1 * Origin: BbS SoFtWaRe IV, Belgium, +32-(0)71-400548 V.Everything (2:293/3216) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: E3B00006 Date: 03/06/97 From: JEFF GUERDAT Time: 07:35am \/To: ROB THIELEN (Rcvd) (Read 9 times) Subj: NT 4.0 CD-ROM SETUP On 03-05-97, ROB THIELEN said to ALL: RT>I'm doing a setup of NT 4.0 Workstation, and upon installing into its RT>own 400MB partition, the install program failed to locate & setup RT>the CD-ROM drive. Install program first recognized a CD-ROM drive & RT>reported, "Found: IDE CD-ROM (ATAPI 1.2)/PCI IDE Controller." RT>Then setup reported being "unable to locate a CD-ROM drive" and RT>could not continue setup. I finally did get the program to install, RT>but no CD-ROM is recognized. Tried to install using "SCSI Adaptors" RT>area in "Control Panel" ... and no luck. The system is a Triton RT>PCI M/B w/ Intel Pentium 133 & 64MB RAM. CD-ROM drive is Creative RT>Labs IDE 6x Model "CD620E" and the Creative FTP site says the NT 4.0 RT>driver for that drive is included with the operating system (NT 4.0). RT>The drive has the IDE interface & is connected to a SoundBlaster RT>AWE 32 sound card ( using ISA bus slot). Could that be the problem? RT>Seem like the setup program is trying to find the drive on one of RT>the PCI IDE controller channels. Any help is greatly appreciated! The root of the problem is that the IDE bus on the sound card is seen as a tertiary or quadrenary (3rd or 4th) bus, which NT can't handle. You *MUST* install the IDE CDROM drive on the primary or secondary IDE channels ypically found on the motherboard or an IDE card... --- *Durango b197 #NR* DurangoMail for Windows NT/95 * KMail 3.10o Knight Moves --- QScan/PCB v1.17b / 01-0406 * Origin: Knight Moves - Rochester,NY 716-865-2106 (1:2613/313) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: E3B00007 Date: 03/06/97 From: JEFF GUERDAT Time: 07:38am \/To: FRANK RAMSEY (Read 6 times) Subj: Where to install applicat On 03-04-97, FRANK RAMSEY said to ALL: FR>In the process of rolling out 800+ workstations running NT. NT domain for FR>user validation. FR>Question becomes where to install the apps. We seem to be divided into FR>two camps. One camp say put the apps on a file server and let folks run FR>it from there. Camp two says place the apps on the workstations and use FR>some token system to controll access. FR>Camp two says camp one's solution will bring the network down. Camp one FR>says camp two's solution will require backups of the workstations to FR>insure any customization is preserved. FR>Question for youse. How are you handling this situtation? I prefer server-based (client-server) application loads - one point of installation for upgrades, fixes, etc. As you well know, others disagree ith me. I simply try to keep things as simple as possible. Individual cases eed to be handled intelligently... --- *Durango b197 #NR* DurangoMail for Windows NT/95 * KMail 3.10o Knight Moves --- QScan/PCB v1.17b / 01-0406 * Origin: Knight Moves - Rochester,NY 716-865-2106 (1:2613/313) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: E3B00008 Date: 03/06/97 From: CHARLES SCAGLIONE Time: 07:22pm \/To: ROB THIELEN (Rcvd) (Read 9 times) Subj: NT 4.0 CD-ROM SETUP ROB THIELEN wrote to ALL about NT 4.0 CD-ROM SETUP RT>I'm doing a setup of NT 4.0 Workstation, and upon installing into its RT>own 400MB partition, the install program failed to locate & setup RT>the CD-ROM drive. Install program first recognized a CD-ROM drive & RT>reported, "Found: IDE CD-ROM (ATAPI 1.2)/PCI IDE Controller." RT>Then setup reported being "unable to locate a CD-ROM drive" and RT>could not continue setup. I finally did get the program to install, RT>but no CD-ROM is recognized. Tried to install using "SCSI Adaptors" RT>area in "Control Panel" ... and no luck. The system is a Triton RT>PCI M/B w/ Intel Pentium 133 & 64MB RAM. CD-ROM drive is Creative RT>Labs IDE 6x Model "CD620E" and the Creative FTP site says the NT 4.0 RT>driver for that drive is included with the operating system (NT 4.0). RT>The drive has the IDE interface & is connected to a SoundBlaster RT>AWE 32 sound card ( using ISA bus slot). Could that be the problem? RT>Seem like the setup program is trying to find the drive on one of RT>the PCI IDE controller channels. Any help is greatly appreciated! RT>Thanks in advance, RT>Rob Thielen Rob: The Microsoft Newsgroups concerning NT are loaded with questions and answers regarding CD-ROM drives not being recognized by NT 4.0 when attached to a sound card port. Your suspicion is correct; it seems NT does not always "see" a CD-ROM drive when it's attached to a sound card port. Try hooking it up to your secondary PCI drive controller port and NT should be able to spot it. Charlie charles.scaglione@edition.com CMPQwk 1.42 1262 --- QScan/PCB v1.19b / 01-0530 * Origin: Collector's Edition * Dallas, TX * 214-351-6548 (1:124/2143) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: E3B00009 Date: 03/05/97 From: ALEX BROENS Time: 09:54pm \/To: ROB THIELEN (Rcvd) (Read 12 times) Subj: NT 4.0 CD-ROM SETUP Hi Rob! Wednesday March 05 1997 07:36, ROB THIELEN wrote to ALL: RT-> Seem like the setup program is trying to find the drive on one of RT-> the PCI IDE controller channels. Any help is greatly appreciated! You just gave yourself the answer.... Why even try to use the SB controller when you have PCI controllers onboard? Just plug your CD-Rom cable on your secondary controller, jumper to master or slave as required (depending on hard drives available) and enjoy! Hope this helps.. Alex --- GoldED/W32 2.51 * Origin: Kniffel's BBS (Switzerland) 41-52-238-0778 (2:301/113)