Major Win2k Driver Bug

[DohBoy]

HEY!

That would explain it.. i had the same reboots too.

[Jammrock]

Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4 has not been all that stable in my experience. Of course I do know some people who have it working flawlessly on their machines, but I have scrapped it and now use Nero Burning ROM and Goldenawk CDR.

EZCD 4 was causing lock-ups and system crashes on my home machine (in Win98 with a G400) and blue screens of death on several work machines (Dell's with an ATi card and Win NT 4). The other burner apps are much more robust than EZCD4, too. That and they allow you to 'backup' certain programs that EZCD4 won't.

www.goldenhawk.com
www.ahead.de/en/Index2.htm

Jammrock

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Hi, my name is Jammrock. I'm a computer phreak and an EverCrack addict.

[Olivier]

Hello,

i've got the same behaviour under W2K RC3, somebody tell me to modify the irq of my G400, i'll try to do that.

An other solution i read in the newsgroup is to use 16bits color and not the 32bits color, i'll try this too.

[Fubar]

I've altso had this problem with instant reboots when using Adaptec Easy CD Creator. Got rid of it fast enough when I switched to NERO. End of problem.

A friend of mine actually killed win2k when enabling dualhead with the DVD-Max output. Don't have any specifics, but you might want to have a partition copy handy if you enable it

Fubar

[markloman]

Hi all!

As mentioned before in this forum, some days ago, the Matrox W2K BETA drivers (5.00) will bug the new Microsoft operating system severely. This is also the case with the RTM (Release To Manufacturing) build 2195 of Windows 2000. It's really a driver issue = a Matrox issue. Don't switch DVDMax on and don't use Easy CD Creator 4.0 (there is no way around the problems - to this date). Also, don't use Partition Magic 5.0 to convert your Windows 2000 partition from FAT16 to FAT32. It hurts too (the boot sector disappears). The latter doens't have anything to do with Matrox but I thought it was nice to mention, talking about W2K and all ;-)
Matrox still has several weeks to finish a descent driver. And I certainly hope they can increase the performance of OpenGL in Windows 2000 (way bad compared to Windows 98 and TurboGL). Guess it's the NT-core that's in the way ;-)

February 17th is official launch date of Windows 2000. Let's hope the driver dudes fix things before then.

Mark

[The Rock]

There IS a fix for this somewhere in the form of an EasyCD Creator patch. If I can find the link, I'll post it here. I don't know if it's official or a hacked fix though. Creator is the ONLY burning prog that has problems under Win2k. I used EasyCD Pro, CDRwin, and Nero with ZERO problems. I find Creator a terrible prog anyways. I'll try to find that link tomorrow: work calls.

The Rock

[Gurm]

TheRock:

If you could find that patch it would be most appreciated, although I've already updated the ASPI layer to the newest version, and patched EZ-CD to 4.01 or whatever, so those fixes are right out (in fact the ASPI layer was fine right off the bat with my full install of the original 4.0 CD!) but if there's something else, PLEASE let us know...

- Gurm

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[Gurm]

Major Win2k Driver Bug

This is NOT, repeat NOT some whiny little Win2k issue. I have discovered what I consider to be a major flaw in the Win2k drivers (although I am ALWAYS open to correction and/or suggestions):

Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4.0 causes spontaneous reboots when the Matrox G400 Win2k driver is enabled. When the machine is set to VGA, these spontaneous reboots do not occur. Odd, eh?

Just thought y'all would like to know, in case you can report it to the driver people or something.

- Gurm

[Fogduck]

(Gurm: wasn't it 'BONE-stick' ?)

re: Partition Magic and Win2000

Someone mentioned that using PMx to change a FAT16 Win2K partition would fubar the boot sector.

Well, it seems that a lot of PMx operations will do that.

I was using PM3 to hide and un-hide my Win98 partition (superstition, I guess) and to re-enable my Boot Manager (the readme.txt files on the Win2K CD said that one could re-enable their BM after installing Win2K) and it fubarred the boot sector.

I used the floppies (it reads solid from FOUR floppies before you can do this) to get into the Repair Console and did FIXBOOT, which didn't help. FIXMBR claimed it noticed that my boot sector was invalid or broken, but it warned me that it might toast my partition table if I went ahead with the fix.

Needless to say, I didn't take that risk and just re-installed. Nice thing was, I left Win98 partition visible, and Win2K nicely went ahead and installed a boot selector which lets me switch. Awww.

[moderator: this extended something off-topic, sorry]

[LuckyG]

As I stated in an earlier thread, I have Easy CD Creator 4.01 working perfectly well on Win2K build 2195 in dual monitor mode.

The trick is to run it at 16 bits !

ECDC4 bombs at 32 bit with the beta drivers.
The same thing happened in NT4 SP6 with Matrox drivers at 4.22 and lower - immediate bluescreen on opening ECDC4. Later Matrox NT drivers didn't do this. Leads me to believe this is a Matrox issue that may be resolved in the next driver release.

On a non-Matrox related note....I found a workaround to install Adaptec Direct CD on win2K. Can't do it from the Adaptec menu screen but you can by using the SETUP.EXE in disk one of DCD on the CD.

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single stick of Kingston ECC registered PC100 256MB RAM
Dual IBM C-71 17" monitors
Matrox G400Max
Seagate Cheetah 10k 9.1gb SCSI U2W drive
Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI Controller
Maxtor 20 GB 7.2k UDMA66 IDE drive
Plextor Ultraplex 40max SCSI CD player
Seagate Scorpion SCSI DAT drive
Creative SB AWE32 / LinkSys NIC / 300 watt power supply
12 fans (including three stacked Nidek Blowers) / assorted external SCSI stuff.........
Win2K Final Release/WinNT4 SP6/WIN98/DOS 6.22

[SCompRacer]

Jammrock, you are right about EZ CD 4 not allowing certain "backups." I have been through all the EZ CD Creator updates from it's inception, and unfortunately sold version 3.5 before discovering this. Plextor Manager 2000 is another update that won't do certain backups where Plextor Manager '96 version did.

[Gurm]

Thank you LuckyG!

My last reason to dual-boot to Win98 just went out the window!

- Gurm

P.S. Does DirectCD make Win2k as unstable as it makes Win9x?


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[jediphoenix]

well heres my chance to actually help someone here is the link you guys are dying for with the fix
http://webcheckup.adaptec.com/ecdc-win2k/



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[Rags]

Thanks jedi,

I knew that it was a known ecdc problem, and I know it happened with other cards as well, so it wasn't just a problem with Matrox's drivers =D

Rags

[LuckyG]

Gurm:
re:"Does DirectCD make Win2k as unstable as it makes Win9x?"

I lived pretty much in WinNT4 prior to loading Win2K so didn't encounter any instabilities related to DCD. Haven't seen any in Win2K to date, either.