Hi Toey
>I'm reading over your posts, and it seems that your problems stem from two areas ... multimedia, and the NIC card.
The first thing I'd like to ask ... why are you installing DirectX 8.1 in WinXP? This isn't Win2K; WinXP comeswith 8.1.<
I install DirectX 8.1 simple for one reason, I'm grabbing at straws and I wasn't sure if it came with 8.1.
>Are you installing the latest drivers for the MAYA card from the website that were released at the end of February? These are doing the job for me.<
Since I just did a clean install with no PCI cards, at the moment I can't even get the drivers to load. The Maya seems to load better for me when I install Windows with the card in. I tried letting Windows install them and also add new hardware and so far no dice, and I do have a copy of the latest drivers in one of my partitions, I'll try them again when I get my sound working.
>Have you tried an older set of VIA 4in1 drivers, like the 4.37a's? I've had good luck with these, in combination with the 4.20a AGP driver, and the nVidia 28.32 reference drivers. (You can still get these drivers at this site.) With your Iiyama, if I'm correct, the monitor RAMDAC will be correctly identified with that driver set, and you shouldn't need the refresh rate fix. I haven't needed it with my GF4 4400 card and the Iiyama.<
No, I haven't tried the older 4-1, but am willing to try anything at thing to get WinXP stable. I loaded the 28.32, but they were from Leaktek.
>There's a new version of the VIA drivers out if you want to give them a shot, the 4.40a(P3)'s.<
I tried those, but maybe with the order I installed my drivers, or having ones that weren't stably didn't help.
>I'm looking back over your email, too. How about trying the scenario with only four partitions on the disk (too many can cause problems with Window, as it can slow up the boot due to the amount of time it takes to enumerate and mount each partition). And perhaps you should try it with WinXP as the only OS on the disk. You've got an image of Win98 ... you can put it back on the system partition, if necessary.<
Win98 doesn't have a problem with 6 partitions, in fact has been doing very well. I'm getting FPS as high as 140 with UT, at default, so I'm as happy as a pig in (peep). If WinXP can't out perform Win98 in games, then I'm going to favor Win98, and limit the I.E. I open. I'd like to compare the two OS for myself, and at least use each OS for a certain purpose. Even when I had WinXP running have way decent, it froze during MOA. So I'm under the impression that WinXP is going to fight me the hole way. Basically I been pulling my hair out, since I got WinXP, and it's just nice being able to use my computer with Win98 without it crashing. I partition my drive so many times now, I'm surprise I haven't blown anything up, it is possible, I know first hand. Lol... I will consider that possibility when everything els has failed. OK, I lied, more like put WinXP on my other system.
>I suspect, due to the kind of problems you are describing, that you are experiencing a conflict between the video card and the NIC card. How long does it take for the system to freeze after a new installation if you try it without the NIC card in the computer? And are you using the latest drivers for the NIC card after it is installed?<
Windows is supposed to support my NIC card and I have look before for an updated driver, but I had no luck finding it. I could look a little harder. I haven't tested to see how long it to take to freeze without the NIC card in, because I was thinking it was the video card. I do have a couple other NIC cards I could try and maybe have better luck finding drivers.
>You mentioned that your BIOS settings are at default. Well, that's not always the best solution. Is ACPI enabled,<
I see APIC it's enable. The ACPI is a suspend type, S1(POS), but no enable setting.
>with all APM-related features disabled?>
I'm not sure what your talking about, I don't see them.
<Have you disabled the devices you won't be using, such as the serial (COM) ports?>
I haven't shut anything off, though I will be hooking up a camera.
>I noticed that you mentioned in one email that your NIC card and the USB Host controllers were sharing an IRQ, and moving the card allowed the NIC to be assigned an IRQ that was different, but not shared. That makes me wonder if the HAL in WinXP is getting installed as APM on your system, although that's kind of a long shot.<
I have no idea, but the e-mail your talking about I believe was for Win98, WinXP seems to have IRQ all the way up to 21 and only the Universal Host is sharing with it's self.
>What kind of memory timings settings do you currently have displayed in the BIOS?<
If your talking about the ones I know of, there all on there lowest setting.
>And do you still have the AGP port set at 256, with 4X enabled?<
Nope 128 and 2X, that easy enough to change,
>How's your processor temperatures?<
My gauge shows 30c, but I think it's more like 35c-40c.
I even have a weird problem with my Itelli mouse, the arrow froze, but I still was able to move the mouse somewhat, thought I couldn't tell where it was and my key board still work, so I updated the mouse. It seem at the momment, there's no telling when WinXP will crash, I just know it will.
Thanks for your tips Toey, I'm going to get started on it.
Hey Baby, want to play with my computer?
It even played UT pretty darn smooth, not as fast as Win98, but I haven't done any tweaking yet, which I'm afraid to screw it up, it seems very stably. Hack, I'm listening to a music video, have a few I.E. open, even downloaded (cough)AOL(cough) and installed it, didn't even have to reboot, + install UT and played it, not bad. Now if WinXP would recognize the hardware on my other system and be like this, I might drop Win98 even for games, time will tell. 
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