that's a digital audio cable. It has something to do with playing audio CDs, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. Dunno for sure what it's really for.

the 'no clue' is the north bridge, I believe. Either north bridge or south bridge, I forget which is which. here, from webopaedia:

In Northbridge/Southbridge chipset architecture designs, the Northbridge is the chip or chips that connect a CPU to memory, the PCI bus, Level 2 cache and AGP activities. The Northbridge chips communicate with the CPU through the FSB.
The Northbridge chip is one of two chips that control the functions of the chipset. The other is the Southbridge. The Northbridge can consist of more than one discrete chip while the Southbridge is typically only one discrete chip.

clear things up for you?

Thank ya kindly sir.

Ok, this ain't about my question anymore, but i gotta find a palce to rant about the shit i've been going tru so far.

As i said i had win2k running properly but with games crashing etc., prolly cos of crappy driver installation. Now, i'm playing a game, and it crashes once more (like all those times before when i just restarted the game or rebooted), i reboot win2k and it freezes on the loading screen every time. So, i format again, reinstall it, install mobo drivers first this time, and then install modem to get the SP's and updates for windows. BUT; when restarting it freezes AGAIN on laod screen, on exact the same amount of "loadness". I format AGAIN, and now immedeately install the modem, and BANG, freezes once more when i reboot after install.

Having restrained myself from kicking the living crap out of my wall, i decide to install win 98 again this time. After some initial problems with the modem, i manage to install it after all. (which was a relief) I also installed the Gfx card driver but NOT the mobo drivers because it has isseus with win98. When i start the install (with the cd ofcourse) it says "give me the win98 cd", but when i replace them the stupid explorerish screen keeps saying it's the nvidia cd in there. That is to say, the cd icon changes, but the name stays "nvidia blabla".

So i think: mm, well, let's give it a go without the mobo drivers, install postal 2, and run it. Everything goes well, but when i'm 2 minutes in the game: CRASH and auto-reboot.


So: Win2k won't let me install my modem for some weird reason, which i was able to do a day ago. Win98 won't let me install my mobo drivers.

I SO hope XP isn't gonna give me that crap with my modem. I think my pc may a bit advanced for win98, but i don't got the slightest clue why win2k freezes on installation of my modem. After it went without any problems a day ago and after a format. Fucked up.

Guess i should be glad i managed to get on the internet tho.

is it an old modem? Old hardware has issues with Win2k (and XP, actually, though less of an issue). And they should make mobo drivers that work with win98. I can tell you that my machine is working pretty damned well since I fixed the sound card driver issue, and I seem to have a very similar motherboard. No old-ass modem, of course.

So, for Postal2, did you get the 1337 patch?

Lol - poor ox.

It's weird though... I can't see why it's throwing a paddy....

Meh - on the note of new pcs.... check out this baby.... RAOWR!!^!^&!!

http://www.alienware.com/system_pages/aurora_ddr.aspx

On that note, I'll post this in open topic....

The modem isn't THAT old, it's not state-of-the-art either. It's an Eicon Diva adsl USB modem. Wanna know something ridiculous? Postal 2 crashed once more in win98 and now win 8 wouldn't boot anymore.

So, format AGAIN and install win2k once more. And now my modem installs without any problems....this is just too weird.

I installed

1)OS
2)mobo drivers
3)Modem
4)windows updates and patches and SP's
5)diretx 9.0b
6)gfx drivers
7)other stuff

I didn't install or play a gamle yet because i was afraid t might make my windows crash to eternity again. Maybe when i get winXP i will try games on this OS again, and if it crashes it's winXp time.


But since both win98 and win2k crash in games i'm beginning to think that reason is the cable that's not plugged in, you know, the one i told you about. Or maybe it's my HD being crap, and should i install the OS on my big HD (and newer one).


Another future problem...in win98 my modem is in the standard windows list of hardware. In win2k it's not so i have to use the modem install cd instead. But the install cd also says "for windows 98, ME and 2000". So no winXP. Let's see if i can find later drivers on the net.

Blaaaah...this sux...man i hate windows


P.S. yeah i got the postal l337 patch, but it still crashed to boot. So it's the pc itself, as was likely from the problems with other games.