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Alright. I just installed Windows 2000 Advanced Server and installed SP3. I am having a problem with playing games. Whenever I try to start them up, it either freezes or the game is all messed up (ie color boxes and stuff). I have an AMD Athlon @ 1.4Ghz and a Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 with latest drivers. If you need more info, just post the question. Please help!

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Alright. I just installed Windows 2000 Advanced Server and installed SP3. I am having a problem with playing games. Whenever I try to start them up, it either freezes or the game is all messed up (ie color boxes and stuff). I have an AMD Athlon @ 1.4Ghz and a Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 with latest drivers. If you need more info, just post the question. Please help!

server isn't designed to play games, thats why its called "SERVER"

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Windows 2000 Pro and Windows 2000 Advanced Server use exactly same binary the only difference is a couple of registry settings which can be changed by using NTSwitch so theres no disadvantage of using Win 2k Adv Server over Pro on a workstation they just created "seperate versions" so they can charge big corporations more money for what is essentially the same product.

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Ok I think I found out my problem I'm hoping to God someone can help me. I know this is not good but I don't know how to change it :ermm: I have my video card, my sound card, my ethernet card, and 2 ALi PCI to USB Open Host Controllers on the same IRQ (IRQ #11) I was wondering if anyone could lean me in the right direction to help me change those IRQ's!

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same irq? what? how can you have all taht installed on one irq? why don't you just format and do a clean installation and reinstall all the drivers. Or, if you don't want to do that, go into hardware profile, delete all the current hardware you just said, and use a regcleaner [i recommend jv power tool, www.jv16.org] and manually look through the registry and delete the left over keys of the current drivers, then reboot, and windows should detect the hardware in its correct irq. I don't know how you can get all this mess into 1 irq.

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Ok I think I found out my problem I'm hoping to God someone can help me. I know this is not good but I don't know how to change it :ermm: I have my video card, my sound card, my ethernet card, and 2 ALi PCI to USB Open Host Controllers on the same IRQ (IRQ #11) I was wondering if anyone could lean me in the right direction to help me change those IRQ's!

That's normal. IRQ sharing. :) my Graphics Card, Modem and Soundcard are all on IRQ 09 for instance.

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