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Grâcié ! This action is only aslept, I'll tell more after experimenting.

Wow! Keeping a separate 5.0 Ntldr must solve it, probably. Elegant! (Even more elegant would have been, of course, if Microsoft had corrected their 5.1 Ntldr to work properly...)

I confirm (my first profession a loooong time ago) that chips can and do have local defects, which are not observed immediately. One good test is "Intel Burn Test", but it needs WIndows running. I wish I knew a Cpu test booted from a diskette, just like Memtest86 does. One one mobo, I had errors when the displayed image changed from clear to dark (supposedly the Agp that overloaded a tired power supply). On an other, mainly the antivirus gave false positives, the rest seemed to run fine. Though, most chip failures are broad and observed early. About the fan, could it be that pinout differences between both Cpu let read a wrong temperature that triggers a strong cooling?

Nice of you! This would be a standard W2k without extensions, so no worry for BWC kernel.

W2k+Xp : to my understanding, it uses Ntldr and Ntdetect from Xp, and after a few months, when W2k's registry has swollen beyond a limit (like 50MB), Xp's files won't start W2k. I'm experimentally sure (and it's documented) that the v5.1 start files hang on W2k if you do nothing special. It works only at the beginning. And of course, the error message is nonsense. There are necessarily workarounds, the most obvious with a desktop being to install W2k and Xp on separate disks put together after the installation and using the Bios to start one or the other. Special non-Microsoft boot software must help as well.

Well, if Sd+Cf readers don't exist with Firewire, I'll read only Cf there. And take a Fw400 reader since my ports are Fw400, thanks for the info. Hints for the model? I suppose several chips exist, so there must be differences.

Grazie Jaclaz! Well, it's a long-time worry I have... I own many 4GB CF300 from Transcend, bought seevral years ago, all excellent. Three 8GB are excellent. Since two years, I buy 8GB that are bad. External aspect is perfect, in a blister even. But the small-file agility is bad. In addition, some are too fast on big files, most are slower to write than read - a hint to MLC. Worse: I can boot my W2k on ich10r with one bad newer CF on the mobo's J363 P-Ata port, but with all older CF it hangs Bsod. Fixed: it's clear that a Usb reader hides many attributes, but my noname Sata-CF adapters transmit much data, and the J363 P-Ata too, so what software would read this bit? It's available, the Intel Applications Accelerator did read it through the ich2. So there is a huge difference between the CF. I wonder if Fakes can resemble so much: aspect, existing printed serial and so onTranscend builds the 8GB CF300 with MLC now (they did it already for the 16GB)They have put a horrible microcode meanwhile (its version has changed)Or even, if the microcode has been altered before delivery. Known to exist, as a trojan.For me, one means to know more and maybe improve the CF's behaviour would be to paste an older microcode on it. But if the chips differ I've lost, sure.

Hi everybody and everyone! I consider adding a CF card reader, this time on my machine's Firewire 400 ports. - Which reader is the best? I've seen "the" Lexar one (are there several?), but maybe others are better, or are cheaper and equivalent because they use the same chip... - Can some readers accommodate SD cards as well? - No experience with FW. I see some readers have two connectors. Can I have two cables to the computer to cumulate the throughput? - Do you confirm that FW400 and FW800 have uncompatible connectors that need adapters? Thanks!

Hello dear friends! I'm still having trouble to find a good plain TS8GCF300 as good as it used to be. (Transcend, Compact Flash type I, 300x, 8GB, and was reputed as SLC, fixed, with good 5V buffers). - Do you know a means to read the "fixed" flag for the CF card? On my ich2 (Pentium III era) the Intel Applications Accelerator did it for me, but on the ich01r +Sata-to-CF adapter, or on the JMicron's J363, or on an USB2 card reader? - Is there a means to save and paste the microcode of a TS8GCF300? If Transcend botched the new versions, I vaguely hope to paste an older one on the latest CF card. Risky, I know. Thank you!

Years ago I wasted muuuch time with the Slot 1, its many adapters, and the so many incompatibilities between PIII/Celeron and Katmai/Coppermine/Tualatin. Then I changed the mobo fro a socket 370 directly compatible with the Tualatin. That was much easier and cheaper than what I wasted in the many adapters, and the i815 got good performance of the 1.4GHz Tualatin plus was capable of overclocking further. This machine still operates in 2015. To me, the comparison is absolutely clear. Even more so now, because for the same price, you get more recent hardware. Something like a Wolfdale combination must be affordable by now, and the E8600 brought me 20x the performance of the 1.4GHz Tualatin.

I once had a 4*600GB Velociraptor raid-0 on Intel ich10r with W2k. By default, W2k could't access the 2.4GB, BUT with Intel matrix storage I could create two pseudo-disks on the 2.4GB, each clearly smaller than 2GB. W2k then sent its commands to the ich10r believing there were two disks smaller than 2GB, and I could access the whole capacity of the Raid. I did try to write at sensitive locations of the Raid (a bit over 2GB for instance) and observed that the data kept sound. Not very elegant, and limited to Intel with the matrix storage, but it seemed to work.

There you can see that Intel provides an INF file for W2k on HM55 but no driver for the disk host: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/search?keyword=Mobile+Intel%C2%AE+HM55+Express+Chipset One possiblity woud be to set the host on "IDE mode" or whatever you Bios calls it - provided this possiblity exists - and let W2k install its P-Ata drivers. Though, this is a very bad solution: - You lose the Ahci improvements, especially the Ncq which nicely accelerates the machine through rearranging disks accesses; - Your Seven probably uses the Ahci mode, and switching the Bios every time you boot the other OS is unbeareable. So what you need is a non-official driver for the HM55 disk host. Check what Blackwingcat (member here) has done, whether the HM55 is one of his targets. If not, your chances are slim. If yes, you can provide the driver to W2k by an F6 diskette that you prepare and provide at the beginning of the W2k installation, or by integrating the driver on a W2k installation disk made for instance with nLite. I can't tell whether Seven and W2k live together in harmony. W2k and Xp don't for instance (...only at the beginning, argh!) - and Seven has quite a few differences, for instance the partition table isn't necessarily what fits W2k (=Dos type). Well, members here must have experience with 2k+7.

Hello nice people! I've been using Gnumeric and Excel concurrently, for the same goal - Gnumeric giving a more logical access to graph properties and settings for instance. ---------- First, I'd like to tell Windows users that v1.12.17 from June 2014 is said to be the last for which a Window build will be distributed (unless someone decides to make and distribute these builds again). This build isn't obvious to find at the homepage, but I got mine from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnumeric.mirror/files/ ---------- Then, a question: What is the best version for Windows? Gnumeric v1.12.17 has some bizarre bugs that can be annoying. For instance, it doesn't save changes in graph settings, so you lose them when exiting and reopening a spreadsheet. Or it saves only the latest single setting you changed, not the complete set. So: did you have a better experience with a previous version? Thanks!

Now I'm nearly sure that the bad contact is between the connectors, not within a cable. Also, I've seen brand new cables make erratic contacts. I can't tell whether the generic design of S-Ata connectors is spoiled or if the manufacturers botched it, but I know that Usb cables and connectors do work from the first to the N*100th use. Engineers are not equally good.

Hi again, happy new year, Pci-Express is fully software-compatible with Pci, so you will have no worry at all with it. Yes, this does happen in the computer world. Maybe a trainee did that, in mid-August, when nobody was watching. Motherboard manufacturers use not to answer such questions, and even less so when you ask for older hardware. Mobos running W2k are no more produced (is there any exception?) so they have no interest in suggesting you one. Beware that some mobos add a bad disk host to the chipset's one, and this added host can have a W2k driver while the chipset's one has none. In that case, the mobo's doc tells "drivers for W2k" but at the end you have to use a bad host, which ruins your computer's performance. Again, my impression is that you take the wrong way by checking mobo models. W2k drivers depend on the circuits used, not on the mobo's brand, and there are 50 times fewer circuit models than motherboard models. Check which chipset has a driver (inofficial if necessary), then choose a mobo with that chipset. The possible Cpu and Ram will also result from the chipset. I can't answer for other forum members, but this is the reason why I don't comment your investigations about mobo models.

For the floppy, the solution is to connect a drive on an Usb port. Recent laptops are not officially compatible with W2k. You have to decide between - Old hardware with official drivers - More recent hardware, then with modified drivers, and possibly modified W2k. Since the chips (disk host, video...) decide what driver is available, you must check what chips have a driver, then you can choose the laptop. It does take time.

A few hints: - The manufacturer of the chipset (Intel...) writes the drivers for the chipset, and so on - not the manufacturer of the motherboard (Advantech...). You don't need to search through all motherboard manufacturers. - Official Intel drivers for W2k stopped long ago, approximately at the Ich8. For sure, the Ich10 has no official driver. My Ich10 runs well with Blackwingcat's ported driver, other people here do the same with more recent hardware. That's the dirst choice to make: limit to official drivers for the disk host, and then have old hardware, or check what disk host has a ported driver. - Do you want to build a file server? If you build a desktop, you would run into trouble with a server motherboard. - i5, i3, i7 is too vague. Intel named its processors that way over many generations, and anyway it's the chipset that decides the drivers hence the operating system in the first place - and then, some processors fit some chipsets. - Graphics integrated in the processor or previously the chipset are horrible. If you plan anything video, you need a separate graphics card, and then its W2k driver is a well separated problem.

Hello everybody! I experience unreliable S-ata connections, month after month. I do connect different internal disks from time to time, change their positions on the ports, but not very frequently nor brutally. It's still not very clear to me; the connections improve when I replace the cables. Some disks or adapters have a cable latch, others don't, apparently this isn't the cause. All disk and mobo connectors allow for some movements of the cables' connectors, something I didn't expect. Possibly the cables or the contacts are sensitive to roll, more than to pitch and yaw. A bit obscure still. I'm very disappointed and upset, because I didn't have such worries with P-ata, and the older Usb cables and connectors (which served as a model for serial links like S-ata) are very reliable despite being manoeuvred thousand times more often and being exposed to harsh treatment at a computer's back. So I'd like to hear from your experience, for instance: - Are the cables destroyed internally? Or is it a bad contact between the connectors? - What are the kind of movements to avoid, if any? - Are there bad brands or models of S-ata cables? The ones I got with Gigabyte's mobo failed as well. - Other explanations? Thank you!

I didn't make extensive trials on my E8600+P45 (Ga-ep45-ud3r) but - The E8600 (I bought from a manuf lot known for o'c) runs at 4GHz without any overvoltage nor tweaking - With the P45, I concluded that the Ram bus frequency was the limit, not the Fsb (Cpu bus frequency), and the Ram latency settings have very little influence on the performance of this computer.

¡Hola Cixert! Why shouldn't you buy used hardware? On eCreek, those of the Isa epoch are dirt-cheap. About P-ata: I chose my S-ata mobo 5 years ago to have also P-ata ports, but this was useless. The ports use to come from a chip added on the Mobo that is bad and wastes a Pci-E port. I really recommend to have a strict S-ata mobo and add a P-ata extension card only when you need the ports. The very best P-Ata on Pci is by far the chip SiI680a from Silicon Image: most flexible, best performance, versatile drivers, cheap, hence many card manufacturers use it. Adapters plugged on a P-ata disk exist to connect it in S-Ata to the mobo. I bought mine dirt-cheap from China over eCreek, they work nicely: no additional driver, bootable, even the Smart and the disk identity can be read as if the disk were S-Ata. Only the contiguous speed is less good than with a SiI680a added card. Perfect for occasional use. But my adapters plugged on an S-ata disk don't work. Adapters exist for everything; I'd suggest that you seek adapters from Pci (or Pci-E if this exists) (or Usb) to Isa and Fdd. Your computer will be much more flexible (check if you want to boot from the Fdd and if the Bios permits it), you'll be able to buy hardware less old, and you won't lose permanently ports if you need the Isa and Fdd occasionally.

¡Hola Cixert! New (I understand: recently designed) computers have no official drivers for W2k, since several years ago. - To access the disks, you might set the host (the chipset, the southbridge...) in P-ata emulation mode, but then you lose the Ahci enhancements (essentially the reordered reads and writes) which make a big speed difference. - Or you must have a driver for the disk host thathas been ported to W2k, notably by BlackWingCat. You have to chack what hosts hav a driver, and you must provide the driver when W2k is installed. - A diskette you make for the F6 process brings the driver, but most new computers have no diskette reader. Alternately, you integrate the driver in the installation Cd using nLite or HfSlip, both projects hosted here on Msfn. Then, most new chipsets or Cpu have an integrated graphics processor for which no W2k driver exists. In a desktop, you can choose a Gpu that has a driver ported for W2k (again by BlackWingCat), but on a laptop things get seriously more complicated. The rest is less worrying. Intel provides Inf files to configure much of the chipset, and even recent Inf are officially for W2k. You may have no Usb3, no Bluetooth, such things. All in one, recent hardware and W2k need a very careful and long choice, long trials at installation. You have real chances with a desktop, but bad chances with a laptop. If I really really needed a laptop, I'd either have a recent OS on it, or look for older hardware. 2k is to my opinion by far the best Win ever, but you should keep in mind that the antivirus programs running on it are disappearing. Even if you keep older versions of the programs, you won't get the virus definitions update any more, in a few years. Also, recent versions of Internet browsers have abandoned W2k, and older ones may fail to display some websites. So W2k will quickly become an option for offline computers only, unless - You run it without an antivirus. Very possible if knowledgeable people run the machine. - Your W2k is upgraded with some form KernelEx that enables recent software.

Obrigado - thank you - gracias! With vanilla, I mean W2k sp4 r1 plus all official updates more or less. I don't want to install a KernelEx on this machine, because I won't stay near the machine, and worse, other people may "repair" the installation, so it better be standard or nearly.

Hello dear friends! I consider putting back a W2k (vanilla, no KernelEx, sorry for that) on my mum's computer because Xp isn't as good, and because a 512MB 1.4GHz PIII runs far better with W2k. Though, this machine must run for years without me nor any significant service nearby, so I consider that an antivirus is necessary. Hence the question: do I find in (soon) 2015 an antivirus with up-to-date virus definitions that runs on W2k vanilla? For instance Avast v7 runs officially on W2k and did a decent job on this machine, but do I still get an install key for a fresh install and definitions updates? Avira maybe, Avg...? Thank you!

Hello you all! I've no experience with Seven (used 95, 98, Me, 2k, Xp) but consider installing the 64b variant on a friend's computer having Xp up to now who uses only a web browser. The machine has 1GB Ram, which MS says is the minimum for Seven - but usually this minimum doesn't suffice to my taste. I'd add some capacity if installing Seven. So: at what Ram size does Seven 64b run at full speed? Thank you!

Why shouldn't you let the Cpu's fan and the cabinet's fan blow in the other direction?