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@Adamwo Try KernelXE https://msfn.org/board/topic/182051-kernelxe-my-unofficial-windows-2000-kernel/

@we3fan I'm certain that installing an AHCI driver whilst your controller is still in IDE mode will either do nothing at best, brick your install at worst. Installing the driver will not magically switch your IDE controller into AHCI mode - that's done in BIOS. Unfortunately, since it seems your laptop model never got an AHCI option update for your BIOS, You're going to need to get into BIOS modding if you want that controller to go into AHCI mode.

@blackwingcat I've tried to PM you but you aren't accepting messages.

@we3fan What laptop model do you have? there might be an updated BIOS that enables AHCI/IDE switching.

@windows2 Out of curiosity, why 2000 and not XP?

I ran into this problem on my AMD Threadripper 3960x system, gave up after running into the VCACHE error despite rloew's patches. It runs just fine on my AB350 2700x system with rloew's patches.

@windows2 Damn! Unfortunately it seems the only viable solution for this at the moment would be to install XP. Sorry.

@Birkin_Pl My suggestion - Start from a fresh 2000 install, then install this - http://ximonite.com/kernelxe/Windows2000-KernelXE-v0.2.4.2-x86-ENU.exe then install unmodded XP 368 driver. Kernelxe covers missing dependencies for the driver so I think it should work.

@windows2 actually try this one - dl.driverpack.io/driverpacks/repack/Video_Intel-XP/Intel/FORCED/5x86/Haswell_6.14.10.5445/Intel-FORCED-5x86-Haswell_6.14.10.5445-drp.ziphttps://dl.driverpack.io/driverpacks/repack/Video_Intel-XP/Intel/FORCED/5x86/Haswell_6.14.10.5445/Intel-FORCED-5x86-Haswell_6.14.10.5445-drp.ziphttps://dl.driverpack.io/driverpacks/repack/Video_Intel-XP/Intel/FORCED/5x86/Haswell_6.14.10.5445/Intel-FORCED-5x86-Haswell_6.14.10.5445-drp.ziphttps://driverpack.io/en/hwids/PCI\VEN_8086%26DEV_041E?os=windows-xp-x86 I think for windows 2000 also install KernelXE too, to resolve missing videoprt.sys dependencies/

you could try downloading this one - https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/16543/intel-hd-graphics-driver-for-windows-xp-exe.html then add your deviceID to igxp32.inf and hope that it works.

Thanks, my method leaves the original windows 2000 ntoskrnl and hal untouched though.

you're welcome! happy to hear you got it working!

maybe not all the USB drivers were copied across? I think this is a bug windows 2000 had. On your windows 2000 CD - go to \I386 and open DRIVER.CAB with 7zip or WinRAR, scroll down and extract everything with usb in the name and put it in \system32\drivers. See if that works. edit: these too - mouclass.sys mouhid.sys kdbclass.sys kbdhid.sys

I see that you have a native USB 2.0 controller on board Intel(R) 8 Series/C220 Series USB EHCI #2 - 8C2D PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C2D&SUBSYS_06121028&REV_04 PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C2D&SUBSYS_06121028 PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C2D&CC_0C0320 PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C2D&CC_0C03 ^ This should work for your mouse and keyboard since Windows 2000 has native USB 2.0 drivers.

Is there some other way to get in contact? I'd rather not join twitter.

Whats the best way to get in touch with Blackwingcat? I'd like to look at their extended core source code (assuming they'll let me) edit: whats the deviceID on that ? USB controller?

Try the mouse and keyboard out in the USB ports that you connected the Wireless N/Flashdisk to, does Keyboard/mouse work in those ports?

It's odd that the flash disk and Wireless N controller are working though, what motherboard do you have?

@winnt5 I thought OpenNT got taken down, did they pop up somewhere else?

@Win95rtm If I can get my ntoskrnl extender working, it should be possible to install an unmodified 368.91 driver on windows 2000.

The XP ACPI driver has been patched already and is working on AMD Ryzen desktop and Ryzen Threadripper. To get it to work for Windows 2000 I'll first need to resolve some missing imports in ntoskrnl InterlockedPopEntrySList InterlockedPushEntrySList ExfInterlockedCompareExchange64 HeadlessDispatch _aulldvrm Wish me luck.

@WinWord2000 OK, done. - It's still in the quote though, can you delete that?

@WinWord2000 Neither. I'll fork from this - link deleted - since I know it works. get it compiling for Win2kDDK and go from there.

@windows2 OK, will do, thanks. @Ximonite Have you heard of the ntoskrnl extender for XP? I can confirm that it works, I used it to install XP on my AMD Ryzen system, it works well, very stable. Interested in doing the same for 2000?

I'm thinking of working on a version of ntoskrnl extender for windows 2000 since it worked out so well giving us extended ACPI/AHCI/NVMe/USB3 support for XP. But now I'm wondering, is there that much interest in seeing it done?