Sysytem re-do: what to put??? XP or 2k?

CrazyRussian wrote on 12/19/2002, 6:40 PM
Guys, I'm going to be redoing my system in a about a week and wants to know what would you recommend (SF ppl and genral public). What would be best for VV and encoding? I have Dual Xeon 1.8 on Supermicro P4DC+ with 2 GB of RAMBUS 800, four 36Gb Ultra160 SCSI Hard drives on adaptec RAID controler (I will probably do Raid0 for speed). Would you go with W2k pro or XP pro?

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BillyBoy wrote on 12/19/2002, 7:20 PM
If for no other reason XP is the latest offering from Microsoft. So it now and in the future will get the focus until the next flavor of Windows comes out. All things considered XP is very stable.

I do need to qualify that this week. For some reason Zone Alarm's True Vector Engine is causing one "event" after another either freezing one or more applications (even Vegas) or locking up the system requiring a hard reboot.

Looking in XP's Event Viewer it looks like Christmas. Dozens of cute little red warning flags all over the place from Zone Alarm going nuts. Yes, I did reinstall, and same problem. Must be some corrupt entry in the Registy. Got so mad at it I uninistalled it and installed a newer Firewall called Outpost.
miranda wrote on 12/19/2002, 7:21 PM
You can't go wrong with win2k, it's stable as a rock, rarely locks up. XP is o.k but I can do without that ugly interface, besides since service pack 1 release I have had nothing but trouble with the damn thing, especially with video drivers.

Good Luck
Al S wrote on 12/19/2002, 7:32 PM
XP Rocks - this from a computer system resellor for only 23 years now. Stable. Fast. You can ditch the glitzy interface and return to the old standard look if you like. I installed VV3, and everything worked FIRST time, and I go back to the old Matrox products for $$$$$, and have suffered w/ Miro/Pinnacle products too.
Only hassel is Gate's stoopid registration policy - ya gotta register XP in 30 days, unless you choose to find a hacked version out there somewhere.

AMD1700, 512 meg DDR, two 36GIG SCSI 160's on an Adaptec 29160, ATI Radeon etc

Al
shaunn wrote on 12/20/2002, 12:21 AM
There have been conflicting ideas in many forums about XP with or without Sp1. Some say Sp1 is reliable others not.

So what is the best solution fro VV3c? with or without Sp1?
josaver wrote on 12/20/2002, 6:23 AM
I have XP home +SP1 on a P4 2Ghz . 1 HD IDE partitioned in 3 partitions and a Firewire card for capture.
No problem at this moment, 6 months of intensive work making wedding videos. At the same time I use the firewire card for network. The only problem is networking at the same time to print to tape, there are a very, very , very BIIIGGG dropouts,;-) but disconnecting the network solves the problem.

Vegas and XP is a good and a fast solution for editing.

Josaver.
rextilleon wrote on 12/20/2002, 2:47 PM
Billyboy, what version of Zone Alarm are you using----I installed the update a couple of months ago and had nothing but trouble---when I went back to an older version everything worked fine---
BillyBoy wrote on 12/20/2002, 3:52 PM
Whatever the latest version was. I no longer have it on my system.

Trying Outpost, also a free version firewall.
nolonemo wrote on 12/20/2002, 6:20 PM
My impression from various boards is that 2k is more stable and less "wierd shit" prone than XP. Having said that, I think that some people are predisposed to dislike XP because of the activation requirement.
Paul_Holmes wrote on 12/20/2002, 8:02 PM
I never went to 2000 because I understood it was a little more techie, more driver issues, less plug and play. The only problem I ever had was getting Pinnacle to work on my XP system and that was just a matter of new drivers for the new operating system. Vegas has only crashed once or twice on my system and usually that was when I had mulitple windows (maybe 8, 10, more) open. As far as I can rememember, XP itself has never crashed, only a program, which you just restart.