Jakob99

Ah, ok. I thought there was an option for thread creators to delete their own posts. Welp, they can go ahead and delete this since this thread is pointless now.

I guess I completely overlooked that. I will remove this now.

Removed due to the forum rules.

Ah. Does Aero rely on Direct3D9?

Interesting. I don't think I have quite the expertise to do this, but I know someone who may. Would this also apply to post-Ivy Bridge Intel graphics drivers such as for Haswell and later?

Couldn't the BIOS in this computer be modded to add in Legacy Mode? SP1 uses Ivy Bridge if I'm not mistaken, so it should be possible.

Anyone know if it's possible to get this Realtek 8821CE WiFi card working with Windows Vista? Thanks in advance for your help!

Yeah, but regardless, it shouldn't be there as the IA-64 version was never released to the public, only to those specific testers like Fujitsu-Siemens, as you mentioned.

There is nothing wrong with selecting an operating system from within Edit Profile, that works as intended, however, I think there is a mistake with it as one of the choices you can select is Windows 2000 x64 Datacenter, which, from my understanding did not exist outside of the planning stages and a few banners found within Windows "Whistler" XP (alongside the Windows 2000 Personal x64 banner). Hoping for some clarification here.

Do you have a link to your portable version of Office 2010 as well as the steps needed to pull this off?

http://win2k.org/cgi-bin/dl.cgi?file=iata76_cd2ke.cab&lang=en Try these. You can integrate all the SATA drivers as W2K should pick the correct one.

What's your Intel SATA driver device ID (you can find this under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers).

We already have @blackwingcat for that, and he does an amazing job! If it weren't for him, W2K would not be working on Intel Sandy or Ivy Bridge.

Sorry for the double post, but I just wanted to say thank you to blackwingcat for all the amazing work he has done in getting Windows 2000 to work on modern hardware such as Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, and even Haswell. Thanks also goes to Realtek for keeping 2k support for their audio and Ethernet (whether they forgot about it or they really do not change much when they "update" the driver for a new Windows release) and also to ALPS Touchpad for allowing the drivers to be installed onto 2k with a simple INF mod, and also to the good folks at win-raid for supplying me with the modded BIOS that made my installation possible! I do have a few bug reports, however. After installing the Atheros driver, the CPU usage increases. This was not problem prior to driver installation. I think I found a temporarily fix for this, which is to disable the network adapter unless I need to browse the web with MyPal until hopefully a more viable solution can be found. And there is also a weird caveat with audio drivers. You MUST install any audio drivers before installing Extended Kernel/Core. This includes: Realtek audio to even USB Bluetooth (make sure to sync your Bluetooth audio device after installation so the Bluetooth audio drivers can install. I think you'll be fine if you connect to a different audio device after installing the Kernel/Core, but, this has not been tested/proven as I only have one Bluetooth Audio device that I use) and other audio devices that install drivers. If you attempt to set any of this up after setting up Extended Kernel v31 and Extended Core 16b, it will not work even though the drivers do not throw any error codes (such as code 10) in the device manager. Realtek audio stops working (the computer reverts to the no audio driver installed beep when dialog boxes pop up) as does Bluetooth audio as well as Intel Display audio (this, afaik, can only be installed after kernel/core and will always cause this error until it is fixed). Idk why this happens. I'm hoping blackwingcat can figure out a solution. In short, audio drivers such as Realtek and Bluetooth audio installed prior to Kernel/Core will work, and will continue to work even after you install the kernel/core, just don't install the Intel Display Audio until bwc finds a solution and releases a kernel update for it.

I can confirm officially that MyPal 68 works splendidly under Windows 2000 as I am replying to this from that! Thanks to windows2 for this suggestion!

Edit: It works! No more procedure entry point error!

THE DRIVER WORKED!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! With working WiFi, I can finally ditch Ethernet! Now time to find an internet browser that renders properly as not even Google Chrome does.

That won't help as the driver also throws this BSOD under Windows XP unless I use the April 2012 driver (the 2013 drivers have problems on Windows XP and 2000), meaning, it's not an Extended Kernel/Core problem. I'm waiting for @blackwingcat to finish modding the 10.0.054 version of the driver from April 2012, which did not produce the BSOD. With a working WiFi card, I can finally ditch Ethernet under 2000!

Unfortunately, this also produced a DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSOD.

I'll give this a spin soon. I also want to report a possible bug with the v30 Extended Kernel and v16a Extended Core, both English. I installed the Realtek audio driver and it worked fine. I installed the aforementioned Kernel and Core and it worked fine, but when I installed USB Bluetooth audio, the Realtek audio device stops working. In the device manager, all the audio devices appear fine (no errors or anything) and the Realtek control panel applet still works. Right clicking the taskbar icon and selecting the Windows audio option causes the laptop to beep and an error message: "There are no active mixer devices available. Please install one from the add/remove hardware control panel" pops up. But, when I play the 3D audio demo from the Realtek control panel (in this case, the bee), I can hear the bee buzzing. This problem also occurs after installing the Intel Display Audio as well. I don't need the Display audio, but I would like to use my Bluetooth audio at least.

That will work if you can find an offline installer. Just install it normally. Nothing should have to be done to get it working other than Extended Kernel/Core, obviously.

Any AR5B125 Windows XP driver from 2012 or earlier works without producing the aforementioned BSOD. I noticed that the 2013 drivers produce the same BSOD under XP whereas the 2012 and earlier ones do not (if a driver updater like Snappy offers the network card update, just skip it). Unfortunately, I lost the BSOD-free driver as my 2TB external HDD crashed, taking everything with it You can find the hopefully BSOD-free 10.0.0.54 (April 2012) version here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/fi9lsdjcpq7jj1o/xp3264-10.0.0.54-whql.zip/file (please let me know if you cannot access this).

Indeed, this was the answer as I got my problem fixed fixed! Details can be found here.

This thread is finished. I got the BIOS modded, the required settings changed, and Windows 2000 now works in ACPI mode! Here’s how to flash the BIOS to an E1-531 (this may work for other similar period models such as V3-571G, but no guarantees, and I am not responsible if you brick your laptop). Download the modded BIOS from here: https://winraid.level1techs.com/t/acer-v3-571g-how-to-unlock-this-bios-advanced-settings-menu-version-2-21/33249 Download the 2.21 BIOS (it doesn’t matter if your laptop is not at Acer’s official 2.21 BIOS) from here: https://global-download.acer.com/GDFiles/BIOS/BIOS/BIOS_Acer_2.21_A_A.zip?acerid=635264178355568077&Step1=&Step2=&Step3=ASPIRE E1-531&OS=ALL&LC=en&BC=ACER&SC=PA_6 Grab a 32GB or less USB stick and format it as Fat32 (make sure to back anything up that may be on it). Use 7zip to open up the Acer BIOS and extract the contents to the USB. Move the modded .FD file to the USB as well. Plug the USB into the laptop and ensure the charger is unplugged from the laptop as well. Press and hold [FN] and Esc keys at the same time, plug in the charger while still holding them, and then press the power button. Continue holding the [FN] and Esc keys for an extra 5 seconds and then let go. The blue power light did not flash on mine. If, after a bit, you hear a succession of beeps, it was not successful, and it will restart automatically. If you hear nothing but the fan, it’s working, do not interrupt it, and wait for it to auto-restart. Press F2 to open up the BIOS and explore the Advanced options!

I think I figured out the answer. It all boils down to serial port settings even if your laptop does not have such a port. Basically, you have to disable the serial port in the BIOS, but the problem is InsydeH2O BIOS doesn't include an option to enable/disable the serial port. It is believed this is why 2000 doesn't activate ACPI under that BIOS. When using Standard PC mode, Windows 2000 will show a floppy disk driver in the device manager, but with code 10. This is because 2000 is erroneously picking up serial port (whether you have one or not) as a floppy disk drive, and so it needs to be disabled, after which you should be able to switch into ACPI under an InsydeH2O BIOS. To get access to Serial port settings if your BIOS doesn't have one would required a modded BIOS. I did post a thread here inquiring about a modded BIOS that includes serial port settings for my Acer Aspire E1-531, so hopefully someone can help unlock the serial port settings.