rec.autos.simulators

1) I'm keeping the Voodoo3 until the NV20 cards are released.  I'm not
gonna plunk down $400 for a Gefore Ultra only to be blind-sided by the
latest and greatest a week later.

2) Everybody that's anybody knows me here. :-)  That's why I posted
here.  I also think that the AMD T-bird will be popular upgrade path by
most who race auto sims (like me), so I thought I'd simply share my
experiences with everyone so that they can learn from what I've done,
and the problems I encounter.

3) At this time, I'm going to keep my trusty TM Nascar Pro analog
wheel/pedal.

4) Anyone that overclocks their system in any manner before establishing
a baseline of proper operation is a moron.

5) I didn't buy any hard drives, I'm using antique ATA-33 and SCSI-2
equipment.  Besides that, no matter how fast the hard drive is, it's
STILL gonna be the slowest part of the system, and with enough memory,
all you gotta worry about is the length of time it takes to initially
load a program.

Part 2: Just When You Thought It Was Safe...

1)  I got home from work and installed my Adaptec 2940 SCSI card.  The
good part is that Win2k once again recognized the card and installed the
appropriate drivers.  The bad part is that I now have hard drives C:
through I:, CD-ROM J:, CD-W K:, and hard drives L: through P:.  Win2k
has some strange ideas about drive letter mapping.  I have not yet
looked into this, but some cursory checking didn't reveal anything
obvious about how to fix this.

I'm gonna re-partition everything so that I still have the same drive
letters I've had for the last 10 years (hard drives C through K and CD's
M and N).

2) I installed my news reader (Gravity).

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I know, not much to talk about as far as far as the hardware goes, but I
wanted to get back to an operational state as soon as possible.  I still
have to reinstall Eudora so I can get back to my email.  After that,
I'll be installing DirectX 8 (I think).

Any more questions, feel free to ask.

[snip]

You can change drive letters to whatever you want in 2k, you need to go
into disk management, move the cds to temp drive letters to open up the
letters for your hds, change the hds, then change the cd letters.  Note
that this will effect anything installed using the old drive letters.
Go to control panel->administrative tools->computer management->disk
management.  MS likes to hide these things in 2k ;).

HTH!
Kendt

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Yeah, but a GeForce 2 MX will cost under $150 and be a good card to
tide you over until the next generation (or two) of cards.