To answer the questions in order.

1. NT has a maximum partition size of 16 exabytes (that is 16,000,000,000
gigabytes).  So your 4.3G should be fine.  I have a feeling it is a
controller or a Bios issue.  Is the drive SCSI or IDE?

2. NT hates almost all video cards.  I have never been able to successfully
been able to get my Number 9 card to configure correctly.  Is your card on
the HCL (Hardware compatibility list)?

3. Same thing for the sound card, though I have no clue as to why the power
supply would make a difference.

My best suggestion for NT is to only buy cards that are on the NT HCL
(Downloadable at the Microsoft Site).  NT 4.0 is hard on hardware, meaning
that it doesn't like a lot of devices.  I have seen machines work the first
time with NT, and I have seen machines that I could probably spend weeks
and weeks on and still not be able to get them to work properly.

The best example of this is a 3com ISA 10BT card, I spent almost 4 hours
trying that and 2 other ISA cards (an Intel and a SMC).  No matter what I
tried I couldn't get them to configure.  As in your case NT succeeds in
installing the drivers, but I was still unable to connect to the network.

Came in the next work day and threw in a PCI card (3 Com Fast Etherlink XL)
and it worked on the first try.

From what I have seen from my beta testing NT 5.0 is thousands of times
better on Hardware.  Unless you need NT, I would suggest going back to 95
or 98.

btw. I teach NT classes and am very experienced with it and still can't get
it to work all the time.

If I can be of any more help, let me know.

-Rob


At 10:52 PM 3/7/99 +1100, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I have number of questions this time:
>
>1) Can someone tell me what is the limit size of a NTFS partition? I was
>trying to install NT4 on a PII-350 computer with 4.3G HDD, if I don't
>split the HDD into two partitions, NT won't format one large partition
>(it said it's too large), however if i split it into one 3G, one 1G,
>there is no problem at all.
>
>2) On that same NT machine, it has a Intel 740 (8Mb AGP) video card, I
>couldn't get NT to know the card, if i install the driver came with the
>card cd, NT seems succeeded installed it, but nothing changed, the
>display is still only standard VGA, I want to "Display" --> Change Type,
>the i740 card is not there, I then searched the list, still not there. I
>have tried at least 5 time repeat driver installation with no luck. What
>I missed?
>
>3) A computer I built was unable to play any kind of sound (music cd,
>games, windows sound, ect ...), but only noise out from speaker. I
>changed the sound card (Stome VX), no change (I tried three same card,
>they are all good card), changed s/c slot, no change, tried different
>speakers, no change. Finally, I realize part of the noise was out from
>power supply, so I changed a new power supply. After that, everything
>back to perfect. Can anyone give me a explanation of it?
>
>TIA
>
>J Qian
>
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