tramtrist Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 I have been running win2k on various (old) systems for a while. I'm considering building an ITX desktop and am wondering which chip(chipsets) you would all recommend starting out with. I'm highly considering an AMD FM2 board or intel 1155. Anyone have experience on a newer board? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomasz86 Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 (edited) I'd suggest AMD at least for one reason which is K10stat. Neither AMD's Cool'n'Quiet nor Intel's SpeedStep work in Windows 2000 but you can use K10stat for power management of AMD CPUs. In case of the Intel processor it's going to run at full speed all the time.My board is based on FM1 and AMD A55 chipset. Before buying a motherboard just make sure that everything will work in Windows 2000. I'm thinking specifically about the USB3.0 chip and the LAN card. Edited June 19, 2013 by tomasz86 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tramtrist Posted June 19, 2013 Author Share Posted June 19, 2013 Thanks tomasz. I have used K10stat before on my netbook and it runs great. I'll shoot for an AMD FM2 board and see where I get with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tramtrist Posted June 25, 2013 Author Share Posted June 25, 2013 Asrock FM2A75M-ITX R2.0 procuredWill give any feedback I have when I have it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomasz86 Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 (edited) Let's hope everything will work without too much hassle I'd suggest to use a fully updated Windows 2000 source for installation. Edited June 25, 2013 by tomasz86 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phenomic Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 I think k10stat doesn't work with Family 15h CPUs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tramtrist Posted June 26, 2013 Author Share Posted June 26, 2013 I've used Brazostweaker before. Is that the same codebase as k10stat or completely separate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phenomic Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Don't know Brazos, for 15h CPUs you can use AMD PSCheck for Windows, and there's a new Linux utility similar to k10ctl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tramtrist Posted June 27, 2013 Author Share Posted June 27, 2013 Thank you Phenomic. Will do. I have used k10ctl before as well.Processor came today.. still waiting on the board. 4GB memory in hand. Should have pretty quick results as a I have a hard drive with win2k setup and dos ready to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tramtrist Posted June 30, 2013 Author Share Posted June 30, 2013 installation went flawlessly.I cannot get any drivers to work for video however.. I've got everything else up except video. I've tried the stock AMD XP driver as well as Blackwingcat's driver (my card isnt listed so I forced some other ATI driver down its throat) but nothing is working yet... Will keep on trying...Any help appreciated. A6-6400K HD8000 series Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tramtrist Posted June 30, 2013 Author Share Posted June 30, 2013 Well I'm stumped. I can install BWC drivers with no exclamation mark as 7000 series and even the catalyst 8470 driver with no exclamation mark but the display doesnt get any better. Still 640x480. I even hacked up with win7 driver on a whim and it detected the 8470D as the correct driver but it wont load after install (exclamation mark there)Kind of at a loss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomasz86 Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 What updates have you installed in your system? Is UURollup or BWC kernel installed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tramtrist Posted June 30, 2013 Author Share Posted June 30, 2013 Yep BWC latest kernel and your latest uurollup daily (from June)I made sure I got the latest versions of both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomasz86 Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 (edited) Well, first of all, you should never install both of them because BWC kernel is already included in UURollup... but at the end it shouldn't really matter in this particular case since you've just installed same files and registry settings twice.I'd suggest you send a PM directly to blackwingcat and ask him whether he could modify the latest official AMD graphics drivers (which support your specific graphics card model) to make them work in Windows 2000.Edit: Did you enable PAE by any chance? Edited June 30, 2013 by tomasz86 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tramtrist Posted June 30, 2013 Author Share Posted June 30, 2013 Yes on PAE. Actually I've tried enabling and disabling it to see what's up. The VESA/VBE universal SVGA driver is working ;p Should I try turning off PAE and reloading the drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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