mcollins

Thanks, I'll try colinux.org. Hardware is cheap, it's the software that is proprietary and they know that they may only get 10-50 sold copies. So those upgrade cost are to move to a new software platform. All dispatching software fetch crazy prices, look at radio it can cost anywhere from $50k-250K for an IP radio console setup.

Thanks for the leads, I've been searching for a few day. I tried a Z77 but not much luck. It is a railroad dispatching program that the company bought back in 2002-2004. Real pain in the a** program that must run under 256 Color, needs ODBC data sources from access 97. If you look at wrong it will crash to desktop. I also need 2 monitors support, no Vware program that I found supports this with win2k guest. We have talked about upgrading the program but that will cost another $500k-1.5mil. So I'm trying to hope it along for a few more years.

I'm looking for the last stable chipset to use windows 2000 pro on. It looks like p55 chipsets may work with drivers INF driver ver:9.1.1.1014 is this correct? I need to run a $250k program that only uses office 97 and win2k but doesn't like vmware workstation. Thanks,