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In Reply to: RE: Boot.ini editing CMP2 memory player build posted by wilbertiii on May 14, 2016 at 18:16:03
Please Help!!!!
More info might help . . .
1. When you say "there is no change", do you mean that, according to msconfig at least, the file seems to revert to what it was prior to your edit? If so, does opening it in a text editor confirm that?
2. What changes are you trying to make?
3. Have you disabled WFP?
HTH
Dave
Follow Ups:
Thank you for responding the answer to the first part of #1 is yes the Windows Configuration Utility shows the string as original, when the text editor is reopened the string still reflects the changes.
Answer to #2 ..WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=alwaysoff /fastdetect /timeres=9800 /nodebug /pcilock
Answer to #3 no it was not mention by cics in his instructions here's the link
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Answer to #3 no it was not mention by cics in his instructions
See link for the easiest way to disable WFP. I'd recommend you give it a shot regardless of whether it affects boot.ini (I can't remember if it does as I never really bothered with boot.ini values as I couldn't hear much, if any, difference from changing them.)
BUT, if you don't disable WFP, you can't use the "slimmed" version of winlogon.exe - a change that definitely makes a worthwhile difference. The easiest way to do it is to use XPLite.exe - the shareware version is IIRC all you need.
HTH
Dave
Hi Ryelands. It's been a while since our previous exchange about cMP2, perhaps a couple of years.
Well, my dedicated music PC motherboard died early in 2016, in the midst of what has turned out to be a very busy year for me. That killed my superbly delightful cMP install. I've barely had time to rebuild it physically (different mobo, PS, plus electronic optimizations). I am about to finish the hardware and then reinstall XP plus optimizations and cMP2. In the meantime, time has passed and I do wonder. Has all that much changed out there in the past few months that I should consider leaving cMP2 now and try something else?
Have you found anything strong enough as to be compelling? I have no doubt that there are "better" approaches. (I've already heard some of the very expensive ones...and laughed.) It's all relative, of course.
Hey JBen nice to see you still around.....just finished my cMP2 build and I'm loving it....leaving S. Florida very soon sure like the idea of us getting together once b4 I do....
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Hi Wilbertiii! Let's do it. I'd like that very much. Now, you leaving us just as the hurricane season starts? That's no fun. Hey, Maggies make wonderful window panels, or better yet, kites!
The year has kept me a bit too busy. On top of this, a few tech disasters hit the audio & PC systems when I've had the least free time. Not much music or forums but I should be over the hump in a few weeks.
Anyway, I just arrived home at close to midnight with a fever and feeling like I got a bug of some kind. I'll find out for sure before trying to meet and passing this on. I'll send you email later this week.
Have you found anything strong enough as to be compelling?No - but, apart from a brief foray a few years ago into the arcane world of MQn, I haven't seriously looked. My cMP2 set-up is in any case untypical. The only advice I can give you is that I'm not sure how useful any advice from me might be.
For several years, I've run cMP2 on a remotely-controlled, highly-slimmed, industrial-grade PC (Fit-PC2) based on suggestions made on this forum by John Swenson. Nowadays, it'd be called a Network Audio Adapter but back then it was too unfashionable and too small to merit a name. The nearest modern equivalent is probably the (Swenson-designed and even smaller) Sonore microRendu. I'm sure it's a step up from my home-brew but less sure whether my buying one c/w fancy PSU and front end (my DIY'd front end works well for me) is the best use of a limited budget. Were I to go for an upgrade, it'd be a better DAC.
In passing, an Intona USB isolator with DIY'd PSU made for a very worthwhile improvement but a Regen hub/reclocker running on a less-slimmed OS and stock PSU sounded worse. (IOW, OS slimming does seem to work.) Isolating the mains supply and the LAN made for small but worthwhile improvements. I use mid-range Wireworld USB cables.
Sorry I can't be more specific.
Dave
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Thanks Dave, that's good enough for me, coming from you. I just needed a good pair of ears to confirm...and, well, some good 'ol Scottish common sense...of the kind running scarce lately in parts South from you, LOL!Funny that you mention the Intona. I must look into it later. Forced to try the multimedia PC for music listening while I fix the dedicated one, I looked closely at the Regen and many others. After consulting and checking, I wound up with the Schiit Decrapifier. Now, the "trick" was not expected to make the multimedia PC a replacement for the cMP2 one, and it didn't. But the little Schiit does a commendable job, more so if one does not know what an optimized system can really do. I suspect that it is close to the Regen in performance but cheaper ($100). The Intona intrigues me for the final reinstall, and it is not as pricey as I feared. (Now, like most all items here, upgrading to a DYI PS is the norm...I may have to ask you about it later.) Thanks for bringing it up!
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some good 'ol Scottish common senseRest assured that the Scots are just as prone to acting like headless chickens as the rest. One of former First Minister Alex Salmond's first acts in office back in 2007 was to railroad a controversial planning application on behalf of some chap called Donald Trump.
Now, like most all items here, upgrading to a DYI PS is the norm.
If anyone else has posted here or elsewhere on PSUs for the Intona, I missed it. So far, it seems I'm alone. Whatever, the Intona works very well even when bus-powered.
In my case, fitting a stand-alone PSU did improve SQ but it wasn't a night-and-day improvement and would have significantly increased the cost had I not had the parts to hand. See link for a brief report.
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where can I find XP embedded?
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Every time I had changed the tineres in different systems, they had sounded worse (more hf strident).
This was why I posted that the 'optimisation' wasn't one at all. In fact, there was no rationale for a universal optimising process for all systems and one only had a say so.
Thank you for that info. Will be listening for that.
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