James.H

Hello bluebolt. Long time passed since 2015, when you tried install Windows 2000 on Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3 and GA-Z97-HD3P . Did you manage to install Windows 2000 on any of them? I tried to install on Windows 2000 on Gigabyte GA-Z97-D3H . It has M.2 and COM. COM disabled on BIOS settings, but instillation stops at “Setup is starting Windows 2000.” If I press F5 and select "Standard PC" I can install Windows and it works. Of course see I see only one processor's core. After that installed Gurgelmeyer's USP5 (Windows 2000 Unofficial SP 5.1.2195) , Windows 2000 SP4 Update Rollup 2 and BlackWingCat Extended Kernel Windows 2000 KB 935839 v30e x86 ENU . After that on Windows device manager tried to change processor driver from "Standard PC" into "ACPI Multiprocessor PC" . Sorry, but after restart got blue screen. One more problem - for SATA can't use AHCI. Windows 2000 installed when on BIOS for SATA selected IDE mode. When on BIOS selected AHCI and loaded driver version 11.2.0.1006 , selected VEN_8086&DEV_8C82&CC (Intel(R) SATA AHCI Controller DEV_8C82 added by Fernando) during instillation got message "Insufficient memory for nvgts2.sys" . On your screenshot with device manager I see that you installed AHCI (Intel(R) 9 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller) , What is driver version here? Motherboard works with standard Windows XP. There have ACPI Multiprocessor PC. Windows XP also can't install when selected AHCI (see the same message) . Motherboard perfectly works on W7 x86. Perfectly works when selected AHCI, IDE and RAID. What is final result with MSI Z97 PC Mate? There works everything? Can you write which drivers you used when installed this board? Can you recommend few Haswell, Broadwell boards, where Windows 2000 can be installed more easy? What is the latest Intel chipset, where you managed to install Windows 2000? Please share your experience. Thank you in advance.