bristols

Hi all, The Windows 2000 Hotfixes page at FDV's website has been updated with April 2010's patches, and a few other changes (see under the "Last update description" heading near the top of the page). Thanks go to Parseus for his help with some of these. Any issues, then please post here (but please PM me to make sure I reply promptly). ============ There are a few things on which I need you guys to help: - 980858 - Windows Media Services 4.1 update, released this month. I've listed this. As far as I could see, TommyP did not list any Windows Media Services updates when he was maintaining the page. I'd like to know your opinion on these updates. Who needs them? Are they undesireable? I've listed 980858 as for Server only. Is that right? - 977816 - Microsoft MPEG Layer-3 Codecs vulnerability, released this month. I think this is only for WMP6. Could anyone correct me otherwise? - 976323 - Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange and Windows SMTP Service, released this month. Again, I've listed this one as for Server only. Is that right? - DirectX 9.0c (Gaming). We still have the March 2009 release here. I have refrained from replacing this with the February 2010 release, because I recall (vaguely) issues with it for Windows 2000 users. Parseus pointd me to a thread on extracting the cabs from the February 2010 DirectX release, but I'd like the input of users of HFSLIP for Windows 2000. Is there any reason why I shouldn't list this newer release? ============ Thanks, bristols

Great Google-Fu! Thanks submix8c. (And yes, I realise that this doesn't constitute your endorsement of IAA for 440BX). For the record, I installed it using the Windows Driver Update wizard. According to my benchmarking software (CrystalMark), the advantage I thought that it might give me over the native Windows driver, however, did not materialise. The native driver outperformed IAA in all tests, by a small margin. Installing IAA left me with a clear disadvantage too - it removed my ability to hotswap my CD-RW drive (at least, the 'hardware eject' icon is no longer present). But there have been no problems aside from that, so far. I'll restore the Ghost image I made before install.

This is really interesting. The installer really refuses to install IAA2.3 on these systems, but the driver itself recognizes PIIX, PIIX3, PIIX southbridges and what's real surprise, IAA2.3 package contains hidden INF file for these chipsets: (Apologies to those who object to the revival of old threads; and for going off-topic here. It seems like a good place to post this, but I will start another thread in another forum is asked to do so.) So, I want to install Intel Application Accelerator 2x on a laptop with a 440BX chipset (one of those officially unsupported), using the hidden INF discovered by Petr (above). The OS I'm using on this laptop right now is Windows 2000 (again, sorry for the off-topic - although I plan also to try it on a 98SE2ME installation). I unpacked the installer using 7-zip, then used Snoopy's Winpack (mentioned by erpdude8 above) to extract files from the installer's CABs (including the hidden INF, which I then renamed to INTELATA.INF). The driver files for NT+ I could find were INTELATA.SYS, IDECHNDR.SYS, IDEBUSDR.SYS, and IPRTCNST.DLL, and IATAENU.DLL. I tried using the Driver Update wizard to install the extracted driver. The renamed INTELATA.INF was used, but a required file could not be found - IATA2000.DLL. I couldn't find this file in the installer. Does anyone know whether this file is created by the installer during the installation process? If so, could you tell me how to create it without running the installer (and any other required files, for that matter)? I tried a conventional installer-based install, but as Petr said above, it refuses. Does anyone know how to remove the check(s) that prevent the installation?

Right. I wonder why that was necessary...? I don't think MDGx's NT4 page is quite as comprehensive as Erpman's was, but is as reliable as ever.

And here it is. I will be updating the Windows 2000 Hotfixes list at FDV's website until EOL (July 2010). Any issues regarding the list should be addressed to me henceforth, for the duration. To be sure of a prompt reply, it would be great if you could PM me, as well as posting here. I'm a relative newcomer to HFSLIP, and like many of you I too have limits on my time. So in all likelihood I'll need your help, particularly regarding any unofficial updates that come along. That said, I aim to update the page within 3 days (at most) of the release of updates (a rod for my own back there ). Thanks PVU. The page will be corrected with that information shortly. Thanks to all past and future contributors, bristols

Hi fdv. Since there seems so far to be no takers, and since I keep my own updated list, I volunteer. It shouldn't be a problem for me to update the 2000 list at your site, for the duration. If this is still useful to you, please let me know how I go about it.

Hi Ken, Thanks for this, and sorry for my late reply. Did you have any problems installing the USB 2.0 stack? Did you only require the drivers provided with the card, or was it necessary for you to use a Windows CD? Did you have to apply further windows updates (for example, by visiting Windows Update) before you had the most recent USBPORT.SYS, etc. etc.? Or perhaps, even though your laptop was USB 1.1, you didn't have to get any updates from elsewhere to update to the USB 2.0 because the necessary files already in your system?

As far as I am aware, this guy Ziyad Hosein had the definitive statement on drivers for your card: http://web.archive.org/web/20071031073030/www.geocities.com/ziyadhosein/rprow2k.htm I use his tweaked 2k_5058 version for Windows 2000 in my old Dell laptop. Unfortunately the links to driver files and packages on the above page no longer work. I haven't searched too hard for them across the net, however - so you might find them quite easily.

Which USB 2.0 Cardbus card would you recommend? I've heard reports about some that overheat. Does anyone know whether a USB 2.0 Cardbus would significantly increase the CPU load, or whether the card's onboard chip would take much of the load? Related to this, I've read that in a straight comparison, Cardbus DVB-T cards (for example) utilise the CPU less than USB DVB-T sticks (in systems that are USB 2.0 capable). This Dell laptop of course would require the card to enable USB 2.0. I wonder whether, using such a card to supply me with USB 2.0, I would suffer from the same high(er) load on the CPU, as I would with an already USB 2.0-capable system? The laptop's Pentium III is just 500 Mhz and struggles, for example, with Flash playback. I'm concerned that the benefits of USB 2.0 would be outweighed by the strain on my CPU.

Hi guys, sorry about the delay in my reply to your comments. Thanks for sharing your hard-won knowledge and experience! Would there be any performance gain, then, if I upgraded to a 7200 RPM hard drive (because yes, the board is ATA 33 speed)? Ah. I had higher hopes for this than you have left me with. Thanks though, I really appreciate comment on this matter. I'll take her apart when I have a spare afternoon and check it out. If possible, I still would really like to utilise the mysterious second USB port. I haven't tried it yet, but here are instructions for crossflashing several Dell laptop models with the bios of a newer model (in my case, from Dell Inspiron 3700 to Latitude CPxH): http://web.archive.org/web/20040408220354/...tonent/itol.htm (Right now I'm unable to find the link which suggests crossflashing to the 3800 BIOS.) Yes, they "look" similar, but a CardBUS Card WON'T FIT in PCMCIA Slot, there is a notch (actually two of them, one for the 3.3V and one for the 32 bit) AND the 32-bit CardBUS ones have (or should have) the additional grounding strip: http://www.pcmcia.org/faq.htm#cardbuscard There is a lot of confusion about these stoopid PCMCIA thingy. Old PCMCIA PC Card were 16-bit and 5V. <-please read as ISA BUS Later PCMCIA PC Card were 16-bit and 3.3v <-please read as ISA BUS (I guess they were used for a short period only) Latest PCMCIA CardBUS are 32-bit and 3.3V <-please read as PCI BUS Card 1) above will fit in PCMCIA 5V Slot 1). Card 2) above will fit in PCMCIA 3.3v Slot 2) BUT NOT in PCMCIA 5V Slot 1) Card 3) above will fit in CardBUS 3.3v Slot 3) AND in PCMCIA 3.3v Slot 2) - where it WON'T work - AND NOT in PCMCIA 5V Slot 1) Thanks for your usual exhaustive and thorough explanation and exposition, jaclaz! Indeed. The two slots this laptop has are both reported in Device Manager as: I have a hard copy of the laptop's manual, which reads: I have two such cards, both with the notches and the grounding strip jaclaz mentions. For example, I have this TP-Link Wi-Fi card: http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-WN510G-...s/dp/B000FO6QXQ Thanks for the info, Ken-mkII. Indeed. The laptop came with a 12 GB drive, 4200 RPM. Slow and noisy - would keep people awake at night. The speed difference between that and the newer 5400 RPM drive is noticeable, but it was a worthwhile upgrade simply for the reduction in noise.