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lasitter

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  1. Tripredacus: Is the 64-bit version a bugfest? No driver support? Just checking.
  2. I don't need any advanced features, and I see that there's actually a thread on converting the server version to a desktop. I want the extra processors support that Win2k doesn't have natively, and the better driver support for newer hardware. I have multiple versions of Windows Server to use as upgrade discs, going back to NT 3.51, NT 4, Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Advanced Server, so I could do an upgrade package if any such exists for Windows 2003 server. Thanks in advance for ideas / links to discussion topics.
  3. If you're running 32-bit applications, I was wondering how much gain you would see from running a 64-bit OS on the same processor. I know the gains can be quite large with 64-bit gaming applications or video editing, but in the most extreme counter example, I can't imagine that it would make any difference with notepad / wordpad, small apps. My concern is that if I upgrade to later OSs, I just start paying for software all over again, feeling the need to have 64-bit software that wouldn't offer much in the way of value. What's the best case for 64-bit if you're just doing 2-D video or at most watching a Blu-Ray movie? I have a new and expensive RAID controller with both 32 and 64 bit driver versions for Windows, Linux and other OSs that I'm planning to install, so that's one motivation for asking. I'm trying to get a sense of the tradeoff of faster 64-bit drivers versus the extra bloat of newer versions of windows. Are the benefits of 64-bit overpowered by the bloat, or not? Thanks.
  4. tomasz86: Thanks for providing the link ...
  5. If anyone could provide me with a direct link to the file "HFSLIP_ia.7z", that wouild be great. Googled it and came up with nothing.
  6. Phenomic: Well, seeing as how I have two of these boards, I'm really looking forward to finding a way of making it work. There is no floppy header, so there's no F6 driver disk opportunity for me. I actually have an add-in PATA/FDD controller card available, but I have few hopes it would be good for much. I find it very curious that the DVD/CD-ROM is supported via the same SATA III port that fails with the HDD.
  7. Have not found these just yet. I assume that if I have rollup files from years ago I should just dump everything and start afresh? Would love to see your beta 5.2.
  8. I know this is similar to another question asked here, but here goes. GIGABYTE 880GA-UD3H with just CD-ROM and HDD as the minimal install configuration. Set to IDE mode, setup stops at "Starting Windows 2000". I've tried this with a SATA drive and also a PATA drive, same result. Interestingly, the PATA drive had a 10 year old Win2k install from a Chaintek board, and the machine actually started booting Win2k until a BSOD while attempting to load a device driver it had no chance of loading. So it's obvious that the board has no problem with seeing or talking with a hard drive. I deleted the partitions on the old PATA drive so I can't try the startup again. I even tried this with an Adaptec 2940 and a SCSI drive, since that's supposedly one of the built-in drivers and got some curious results. Initially the adapter sucessfully installs a "C" drive and announces "bios installed", but if you do the "Ctrl-A" during startup the card won't enter the SCSI manager, saying it's not recognized by the system or some such. Back to W2k ... Win2k Advanced Server has to be a scratch install and cannot be an upgrade. I've never tried to get the kinks out of the .NET framework, so I've never gotten nLite to work for me. Suggestions? If there's a laundry list of everything you need listed in one place with links to various rollups, etc., I suppose that would also help.
  9. The ones I mentioned list support for "OS Support -- Extensive support includes Microsoft® Windows® Vista/Server 2003/2000/XP, Linux® and more. Visit the LSI download Center for the most complete list of supported operating systems: lsi.com/support."
  10. I'm upgrading from a mainboard with a PCI-X (way old) ARECA controller and I'm trying to sort out some options. None of the PCIe 3.0 controllers are going to offer support for Win2k, so that leaves me with PCIe 2.0. Of the SATA III controllers offering Raid 50 and 60 that I've seen, these are the only two that offer support for at least eight drives via internal connectors with a half gig of cache: MegaRAID SAS 9260-16i http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecomponents/Pages/MegaRAIDSAS9260-16i.aspx MegaRAID SAS9280-16i4e http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecomponents/Pages/MegaRAIDSAS9280-16i4e.aspx Intel has one supporting eight drives but only 256mb cache. If you know of additional controllers I'm missing, please let me know.
  11. Browncoat: So you're saying that new video adapters can use old drivers. OK.
  12. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%204025%20600030348&IsNodeId=1&srchInDesc=express&page=1&bop=And&ShowDeactivatedMark=False&CompareItemList=48|14-125-374^14-125-374-TS%2C14-121-484^14-121-484-TS%2C14-125-392^14-125-392-TS%2C14-130-605^14-130-605-TS%2C14-130-592^14-130-592-TS Any of these work? (Hope the URL does ...)
  13. Most adapters nowadays have HDMI ports and DRM drivers, so I was wondering what video adapters I should be looking for for my Win2k machines? I'm not a gamer, and just need to drive a flat panel display via DVI.
  14. Browncoat: These are allegedly new in box, so I hope at least one of them works. It will tell me whether I can continue down this current track, at least.
  15. Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H Rev. 3.1 Just found an eBay seller with two of these, and they're en route to me now. Wish me luck!
  16. Agorima: Bulldozer is eight cores, and this board is for Intel vs AMD. tomasz86: The main concern is dodging four adapter slots, I guess. GA-870A-USB3 is available now from various sellers in rev 3.1. It has four ram slots and seven adapter slots, with a serial header. That will be my fallback, I guess.
  17. tomasz86: Thanks for the tips. I made a list Gigabyte boards that supposedly supported AM3 and AM3+ ... GA-890FXA-UD5 (v3.1) 3781 -VID, 4x mem, 7x option, FDD, IDE, COM GA-890GPA-UD3H (v3.1) 3785 +VID, 4x mem, 7x option, FDD, IDE, COM GA-880GA-UD3H (v3.1) 3789 +VID, 4x mem, 7x option, FDD, IDE, COM GA-870A-UD3 (v3.1) 3786 -VID, 4x mem, 7x option, FDD, IDE, COM, PAR GA-MA770T-UD3 (v3.1) 3807 -VID, 4x mem, 7x option, FDD, IDE, COM, PAR GA-78LMT-S2P (v3.1) 3833 +VID, 2x mem, 3x option, COM GA-M68MT-S2 (v3.1) 3967 DSub, 2x mem, 4x option, PAR GA-M68MT-S2P (v3.1) 3922 DSub, 2x mem, 4x option, PAR GA-880GM-D2H (v3.1) 3888 +VID, 2x mem, 4x option, COM GA-880GMA-USB3 (v3.1) 3817 +VID, 4x mem, 4x option, COM GA-880GM-USB3 (v3.1) 3809 +VID, 4x mem, 4x option, COM GA-870A-USB3 (v3.1) 3788 -VID, 4x mem, 7x option, COM The older ones that have FDD / IDE ports only supported bulldozer in the very last revisions. I've checked all over the web for them and I'm wondering if the compatible revisions were ever actually built ...
  18. I may have to let go of any hope of running bulldozer with Win2k, but since I own advanced server (not installed) the idea of having eight cores is appealing. But not vital. Newegg is only showing two boards, one from ASRock and the other from Jetway. The complaints I've seen have to do with a lack of longevity due to flimsy caps. They're dirt cheap at under $50, but I'm really not concerned about the cost so much. The ASRock has all of three slots and the JetWay two. Both have only D-Sub for video, which means I'd have to fill one slot with a video card. I'm planning to run a RAID 6 / 60 controller in one slot and so you're full up without any of the other stuff I need. Thanks for your response!
  19. My current board is six years old and I'm looking to update, but finding something Windows 2000 can run on today can be a bit tricky. You can wish for the moon but ultimately have to settle for less. Some of the best prospects I've been looking at largely disappeared about a year ago. Some of the features I've seen that are appealing are: Build quality ... 125W to 140W capability AM3/AM3+ Compatibility Four memory slots More adapter slots generally Legacy headers for IDE or even floppy PS/2 DVI-D onboard video with Win2k drivers a plus HDMI (don't know if any drivers for Win2k ...) USB3 Sata3 1394a header or connector If I gave up on the video something like the Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 might work, and I've only seen a couple of those for sale. I don't know if only the latest revision (v3.1) supports AM3+ The GA-890GPA-UD3H is somewhat more common, but again I've not seen anyone with v3.1 of that board. Some have said that it's easier to get Win2k to work on nVidia, but a number of recent nVidia chipset boards I looked at seem to have dropped Floppy, IDE, COM and similar legacy items. What are the best guesses right now for AMD? It's been so long since I've used Intel I'd rather not go back there. Last thought: With newer raid controller boards, is it possible to load Win2k if you set the mode to IDE, even if you don't have floppy / actual IDE?
  20. I asked this question before and didn't get much back in reply, so I'll try again: http://www.msfn.org/board/thread-URL-chang...ar-t114278.html I'm willing to pay good money for someone that can put me on "Easy Street" towards the solution of this requirement. I'd really like to be able to customize windows folders to my own liking, and to do this at the point of initial installation, with nLite. I accept private email thru the board if you're inclined to haggle.
  21. This HAS been addressed piecemeal in this forum, but I'd really appreciate any pointers to the most comprehensive listing of what system variables can be changed and the best syntax for the .SIF file in the process. One thing I've seen in discussions is that different people have tried the same (and different) syntax for these paths and gotten varying results. For what it's worth, I'm using Win2k Server (as a workstation), and would appreciate information that might be peculiar to this version of Windows. I'd love it if someone had a complete .SIF file that showed the maximum amount of variation for placement of all these different paths. I think getting this right during the install with nLite is much smarter than making changes with regedit and manually copying files. I don't want to waste my time on anything that just cannot practically be changed. I'm also interested in having a setup that results in the absolute minimum number of %USERNAME% subfolders under "Documents and Settings", as I would plan for there to only ever be ONE user for this computer -- ME. I'd appreciate any help identifying any install paths that can be changed, such as the ones below. Thanks. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders AppData: Cookies: Desktop: Favorites: NetHood: Personal: PrintHood: Recent: SendTo: Start Menu: Templates: Programs: Startup: Local Settings: Local AppData: Cache: History: My Pictures: Fonts: My Music: My Video: CD Burning: Administrative Tools:
  22. I think HFSLIP could do what I need on a fresh install, but I'm trying to upgrade to IE6 SP1 on a system that is already up and running. I despise windows update and anything that "phones home" to M$, and so of course I'm having some problems identifying the correct tools for the job. "ie6setup.exe" /c:"ie6wzd.exe /d:1 /s:""#E" I know that something like this lets you go online and download all the required CABs, and that you can do the actual install at some point later. Problem for me is that I think it always calls windows update and wants an an internet connection, even thought the CABs are local. I was hoping that maybe someone had created a MASTER.INI file for sysocmgr to do this, or maybe someone had done something with HFSLIP for just updating a system with IE6. Thanks for any links or ideas.
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