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At least the version 4 of Regedit looks like the right choice. I use such files on W95b as well. In case you try to port reg files from Regedit5 to Regedit4, be careful that Regedit5 use the Unicode character set. You won't notice that in many text editors... But Regedit4 refuses these files.

Hello nice people! You may know (but are welcome to ignore) that NEC produces a chip (µPD720200 or UPD720200) that adds USB 3.0 ports on a PCI-E lane. As all (or nearly all?) chipsets up to now have only USB 2.0 ports, motherboards include this chip. http://www.necel.com/usb/en/product/upd720200.html http://www.necel.com/usb/en/product/upd720200_doc.html I haven't seen anywhere a Win2000 driver for this chip, neither at NEC nor at the motherboard manufacturers. Which is a pity, since W2k drivers exist (sometimes unofficial but excellent) for the chipsets of these motherboards. So: Does this driver exist? Official or not. Or do we get the USB 3.0 speed without an extra driver? Thanks!

Why still W2k? - Because it runs more or less as I expect. The more I try other Windows, the more I consider sticking to W2k. - Because I don't care too much about having updates. - Because the applications I have (Office 97, some Ms-Dos scientific computations applications not modernized since then, and so on) run on W2k, and I have no multitask application justifying a multicore processor that would need a more recent OS. - Because more recent OS need much more resource for the same result. I don't and won't call that a progress. Comfort comes hence from old software on new hardware. On my X25E+E8600+P45, W2k boots in 15s. I doubt Seven does that. I have an other question. Why do you come to a W2k forum and ask people why they stick to it? Are you so upset with your Vista and consider switching to W2k?

I didn't check it in detail, nor do I have the W2k Server any more. In any case, it was as installed from the original Cd, and under these conditions and on this machine, W2k Workstation shuts down quickly. So I wonder if it's something like Active Directory, or some other addendum which I don't need if using a W2k Server as a Workstation, that slows down the shut down. In such a case, I could maybe disable the service. Is the slow shutdown a known behaviour of W2k Server?

Via: - I've read this controller is bugged. It makes write mistakes, exactly what you don't want (lost data, OS deteriorating over time...) - I've had a mobo with Via chipset before, its disk controller was bugged exactly that way - just as about each and every Via controller - Via will never ever control again a disk at my home. (But their Usb2 chip seems to work properly) Adapters: - I bought them dirt-cheap on eBay from Honk Kong or Shanghai - The one hanging to P-Ata disks for S-Ata mobo is fast - The one hanging to S-Ata disks for P-Ata mobo is slow. Slower than Silicon Image. - Both worked from the beginning, and test programmes saw no write-read errors. Silicon Image: - I have a SiI3114 who explicitly proposes drivers for W98-Me but not W95. It works without errors (except when flashing several times, when it needed repeated flashing before succeeding. It is not fast: 77 to 93MB/s depending on the benchmark, the Bios, the driver. My platter achieves 134MB/s on a Sata300 ich10r, my Pci achieves 124MB/s. Maybe the disk (7200.12) itself is slow on Sata150. - The Sata300 there, SiI3124, has no official driver for W95-98- nor Me, and I know no unofficial one. - SiI3124 seems the only one on Pci that has Ncq. SiI3114 doesn't. On W98 (no parallel requests) it's unimportant, on Nt4-Nt5-Nt6 Ncq makes a huge improvement, experimentally. - I've had many SiI0680a for Pata133 before, these ones were the absolute best, so the "slow" SiI3114 is a disappointment. Eject a fixed disk: - What you need is Hotswap http://mt-naka.com/hotswap/index_enu.htm but unfortunately, it runs on W2k (maximum v2.0.0.0) http://mt-naka.com/hotswap/file/HotSwap!%202.0.0.0.ZIP Xp and more (v5.0.0.0) http://mt-naka.com/hotswap/file/HotSwap!%205.0.0.0.ZIP No install, launch it, it adds a taskbar icon for the fixed disks. - Beginning with v3, you can spin down a disk before removing its power... Refuses to install on W2k. - Silicon Image tells explicitly their hardware (including Sata150) allows to eject Sata disks. - There, a more complete discussion about hotswap: http://www.tomshardware.de/foren/242374-10-esata-festplatte-rauswerfen (forget the last contribution, full of mistakes) Disk size can exceed 2TiB with SiI controllers but expect worries with W95-98-Me-Nt4-2k-(Xp-2k3)... Disks will have 4kiB sectors to try to cope with the 32b Lba limit, and then you'll know which programmes took notice that sector size may vary... Anyway, more than 128GiB should go easily with W98 and SiI, independently of your Mobo's Bios. Enjoy Sata on your faithful machine!

Hello you all! Having had my hands on a W2k Server just because of a cheap opportunity, I tried it very briefly as a four-core W2k workstation, and quickly gave up for having no multitask application except 7-zip. But I may change my mind in the future. One drawback was that W2k Server shut down very slowly, which is a real annoyance if misusing it as a workstation. I didn't invest the necessary time to improve it. Is there a remedy? Like, a service to deactivate, some option "LetUserWaitForNoReason=0" to adjust somewhere? Thanks!

Thank you so much! For the answer, and primarily for the driver. It serves day for day. Really nice from you!

OK then, it's similar to W2k, although somewhat more archaic. Maybe this helps, with Nt4, if you have an Intel southbridge of the Application Accelerator epoch. On W2k, I could make an F6 diskette containing the iAA. This doesn't seem to be completely standard, but it allowed me to make a fresh installation and have right from the beginning the Intel driver - very useful to install Win on a Compact Flash Card by writing in Udma instead of Pio, the difference being bigger than with hard drives. In the case of Nt4, the benefit would be an F6 driver that speaks Lba48. It needs to have already installed the iAA with the right Windows on this precise hardware. Then, iAA creates a folder containing a Txtsetup.oem and all necessary files to be copied to the diskette. I had to correct something in an Inf but forgot what, sorry; probably the Pci identification of the southbridge. From what I've seen, this folder is created by iAA for each machine and can't be just extracted easily from the installer. But at the second installation, it works. ----- How did they translate "Hardware Abstraction Layer" in Italian? In my language, it became a layer made of hardware abstraction (instead of abstraction from the hardware), which doesn't help understand.

HfSlip is designed for Win 2k-Xp-2k3 and, at least for W2k, it integrates the R1 very naturally. Did you have a look? With W2k at least, the SP and Rollup are designed to integrate themselves onto the Cd. I strongly hope the R2 for W2k3 does it as well. Did you try? This involves: - Copy the install Cd on a hard disk; - Run the Sp or the Rollup with the adequate option (search keyword "Slipstream") on this copy; - Create the improve install Cd from the Hdd, including a boot sector. Or run the installation from an old hard disk drive, booting from diskettes. Even a 5400rpm is much faster than a Cd. Sorry if there's something special about W2k3 or its R2, I'm extrapolating here.

A very good source for Lba48 is http://www.48bitlba.com/index.htm Unfortunately, it's radically false about W95 and tells nothing about Nt4, except "UniAta". Via's driver seems to do the same for Lba48 as Intel's Application Accelerator. Though if you have a Via host, the best update isn't a driver or a Bios, but an added host from a different manufacturer.

Please take my answer with caution, because I have nearly zero experience with Nt4, only 95-98-Me-2k and a bit Xp. I believe to have understood that Nt4 accesses the disk (or the host) like 95-98-Me do: using the interrupts provided by the Bios, instead of having its own functions as W2k began to do. (Or did this change with some SP?) So the Lba28 limit would work like in W95-98-Me: it depends on the Bios, not on Windows. As soon as the Bios provides the Lba48 mode, Nt4 would access disks over 128GB, as W95-98-Me do (observed experimentally, including W95b). The Lba28 limit in Windows itself appeared with W2k (and Xp) and was corrected by an SP. In the W95-98-Me (and Nt4?) case, flashing the Bios to Lba48 (if possible) is not the only answer, and not necessarily the best one. Among many others: - An Ide host, possibly added on the Pci, whose Bios understands the Lba48, is enough to access >128GiB, and often improves speed; the best for 4* Pata/133 on 32b Pci is by far the SiI0680a, <10$ on eBay from Hong Kong. - If you have an Intel host of the right epoch, installing the driver Intel Application Accelerator is enough. - Disk manufacturers provide "Overlay software" or "Installation software" that, just as the Intel App Accel, replaces the limited Int13h provided by the Bios. In any case, it is vital that you install your Windows in a smaller volume wholly accessible by the Bios-OS-SP0 prior to any improvement, especially to enable repairs. But as Nt4 (really?) limits this volume to 4GiB, the Lba28 limit shouldn't be attained. There are tricks (I didn't try them) to provide the Sp6a's Atapi.sys on an F6 diskette (pretending it's a hardware driver) when installing Nt4 gold, which is allegedly impossible to slipstream with its SP (I didn't investigate), and whose Sp were never included in the install disk (again a rumour I didn't check). UniAta was developed for Nt4 and is claimed to improve many such worries, but I tried it briefly on W2k and it didn't work quickly. W95-98-Me-2k-Xp32 are also limited to disks of 2^32 sectors, which translates to 2TiB disks (not volumes) with sectors of 512B. W2k3 can access bigger disks in some cases, and V-7 often (non-MBR type partition). This will probably be the real limit for Nt4. Disk manufacturers have agreed that above 2TiB, sectors will have 4kiB instead of 512B, so these Windows may - perhaps - who knows - access >2TiB... Then, we'll begin to see what parts of Windows and the applications took care that sector size could change: expect most of them to fail... Fingers crossed!

Siv does it automatically, at least for hardware connected to the Pci. It comes with its own list instead of just reading the driver's name in Windows' registry. Got mine there http://siv.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/downloads/siv.zip which has moved meanwhile.

Diskpar does it (Dispart is more recent and less usable): https://kb.wisc.edu/images/group14/4556/diskpar.exe it runs on Win, so you need several computers. Howto: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb643096.aspx 0 is the first disk, 1 the second... The starting offset is in sectors The volume size is in 2**20 bytes (MiB) It worked for me on Compact Flash Cards (but does it help, since the Wear Levelling Algorithm shuffles everything?) and should be even more useful on Raid arrays. Disks over 2TB will have sectors of 4kiB instead of 512B... How all this software will work then is just a surprise...

- W2k stays usable without support. Keep the existing patch installers, as Microsoft will remove their download some day. - Using Xp files needs an Xp licence. Even if you have one just for your W2k machine, the so-called licence contract wants you not to take Xp files apart; whether the so-called contract has any legal value depends on your country and existing Justice decisions. - The Xp Api is quite larger than W2k's. Expect very few programs written for Xp to run on W2k. - If you mean: Xp's updates - forget it. They check the OS and refuse to install on the wrong one. You may try to fool the installer, but I won't. Illegal, too much work, source of instability.

Grüssdi! I could hotswap Sata disks on a SiI3114 host with W2k. Maybe it works on your host as well. Plugging just runs fine. Unplugging doesn't because the disks are fixed, so Windows doesn't propose to eject. Pulling the connector without "Eject" would be a real and serious risk for the data, even though it goes fine "often". I see you use the Disk Manager for it, which is less than convenient, especially if you run a non-administrator session, or if less skilled people are to use the computer. Fortunately, a programmer has written HotSwap! which just adds an "Eject" icon in the taskbar, this one working on fixed disks as well. It's there http://mt-naka.com/hotswap/index_enu.htm v2.0.0.0 is the latest intended for W2k, there http://mt-naka.com/hotswap/file/HotSwap!%202.0.0.0.ZIP the first version that proposes to spin-down the disk before ejecting is v4.0.0.0 which refuses to install on W2k.

I didn't try by myself... But as nobody answers you, here is my little bit of (mis)information. I had looked at the 890gx, and the file \SB8xx\x86\Ahci86.cat contains 2 : 5 . 0 0 , 2 : 5 . 1 < < < O b s o l e t e > > > which is a hint that W2k is a target just as Xp is. My suggestion is that you go to the sites of motherboard manufacturers, download the driver for the chipset, and read the contained Inf files, or the txtsetup.oem: these tell often in clear what Windows is supported. ----- Ahci is very important for speed. Not for the throughput, but for Ncq, which completely changes the boot time and the system's responsiveness. Seen it by myself on an Ich10r with W2k. ----- On Intel chipsets, you would have the excellent solution of the Intel driver ported to W2k by BlackWingCat.

Microsoft doesn't want you to install Windows on a removable device, so there is no official method. I know no answer for the unofficial ones; most attempts were made for Xp rather. If this exists for W2k, the present forum is an excellent place to hear of it.

The unofficial Sp5 is a very nice attempt, but be careful that... - It's English only - It contains MANY functional updates Microsoft didn't release for general use And according to my trials, these updates ARE bugged. Microsoft tells "not fully tested, use ONLY if you must correct the problem described" and this is what you should do, because these updates really bring trouble to W2k. The ones I tried were for Usb, and some of them may hang the computer or provoke a Bsod just because you unplug a Usb (I made a report with updates list about Usb somewhere on this forum). So in order to save a lot of time, better keep off the unreleased updates.

Meanwhile I gratefully downloaded a newer version of BlackWingCat's improved driver. I got it there: http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/813816.html (explanations in Japanese, didn't help me) http://files.me.com/theblackcat/o5v5q6 (download file iata76_cd2kb.zip) which bears the same version number 7.6.0.1011 (from Intel) still has IaStor.sys last modified on 20090416 but has IaStor.inf and IaAhci.inf last modified on 20100515 (hope they are the most recent by now). And as fantastic good news, I see in the material list of the Inf files: Ich6 to Ich10 (with all sub-details m, d, r...) AND Pchm and Pch, which must be the kindof southbridges H55 H57 P55 Q57 or "series 5" intended for the Core i5 on socket 1156. Does that work? Can we, using this new version, run W2k with Ahci on a Core i5 Clarkdale at full throttle? Thanks!

Hello everybody! Having recently tried the version 9.10 of Ubuntu, I stumbled on a tiny game (an intellectual one this time, sorry guys...) called Tetravex. I like it but won't change my OS (W2k) just for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetravex I couldn't find a Windows version to download, only a Tetravex II which seems to be an automatic solver (exactly what I don't need) and Palm versions. And some very affordable shareware as well, this would be an option. I'm not willing to go into compilations and porting. So: where can I find one? Thanks!

Aida was free but ignores recent hardware. Everest is its successor, partially free. I don't like Everest so much especially for this job, because it only reads the hardware names in the registry instead of asking the hardware itself for its reference and comparing with a knowledge base. Then, if Win ignores a hardware or already got the wrong driver, Everest displays it wrongly. TO make it short, Everest displays the name of the current driver, not of the hardware. Some that do it properly, because they come with the huge required database, are SIV and PCI.EXE. Formerly there http://siv.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/downloads/siv.zip and still here http://members.datafast.net.au/dft0802 I could still find Siw which isn't too bad http://www3.sympatico.ca/gtopala/siw_download.html (the one I used) http://www.gtopala.com/ (new address and version)

Some Dvd/Cd burners take over 10s to be ready when you insert a disk. Important for my choice. Having had 2 dead or ailing burners, I consider their choice is important and even put the necessary money to buy my last one - it was even a new one, imagine that. Used case, Cpu, OS licence, Ssd, supply - but new burner. Remember their laser diode has a limited lifespan. To choose it, I googled both <burner name> <burner name> problem and made the ratio of the number of hits. Maybe not a completely fair method, but more so than Newegg's "customer" comments. The ratio varies between 0.2% and 30%, figure that! And it's not related to the number of answers.

Well, I just hope we make the same mistakes in English... I tested my own pair of St3500418as with Seagate's tool http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools choose between floppy and Cd, download, burn, boot the Pc on it, test. This is the most reliable test for a Seagate disk. Work on other brands as well. Fingers crossed!

Your proposal looks good, especially if you put Xp on it, not Vista. Amd has all my sympathy as an outsider but their offer is less fun right now, let's hope they improve it. You will find competitors to the Core2, maybe at a similar price, but not at the same power consumption - this translates to cooling noise and electricity bill. With Xp, you may even consider an Atom mobo for desktop. 80-120€ mobo+processor. About 3 times as fast as you PIII 800MHz. But be very careful with the expansion capabilities! I have the 7200.12 500GB. No worries, very silent, high throughput. Maybe Hitachi's 7k1000b has a more agile arm, but I'm not sure. ----- The existing Pc would be very comfortable with Win Me, especially with a 7200rpm hdd.

The right way is to find the exact name of your laptop, then the manufacturer's website and documentation, and there you have the info. Other ways are just too risky. Accepted Ram depends on the hardware already there, on the Bios, on so many things... Not even the chipset's documentation gives reliable information, as the mobo's designer can still botch his job, as I've seen twice. And sometimes Ram formats are specific to a laptop. (Only) eBay.com and eBay.de have enough choice for your needs. I won't search for uou, because (i) too long (ii) risk of failure, I keep away. Do you know you can save a search for an item there, and program automatic e-mails when a new item is listed that meets your criteria?