[ACPI 2.0 / NTOSKRNL Emu_Extender] Now Working on Windows 2000!

[windows2]

Hello everyone,

We’re excited to share a major milestone from the Win2000_dev_community — we've successfully ported ACPI 2.0/NTOSKRNL Emu_Extender support to Windows 2000!

🎉 This achievement was made possible thanks to the incredible work of @Damnation, along with valuable assistance from Rairii, and valuable contributions from others in the community in testing and debugging issues along the way.

✅ As of now, the following are fully working on Windows 2000:

Windows 7's NVMe driver 

Windows 8's USB3 driver

Windows 8’s STORAHCI driver

Windows 7's Storport.sys 

KMDF 1.11 support

⚠️ Known Issues:

processr.sys does not function correctly due to differences in CPU throttling mechanisms between Windows 2000 and XP.
▸ This may be caused by the lack of PROCESSOR_STATE_HANDLER2 in Windows 2000 kernel, which only implements PROCESSOR_STATE_HANDLER.

InsydeH2O BIOS is not fully tested yet. Currently, it still presents problems at the "Setup is starting Windows 2000" phase.

[Fernando 1]

@windows2

Why did you start a similar thread at Win-Raid Forum?
You should better stick to MSFN Forums.

[windows2]

1 hour ago, Fernando 1 said:

@windows2

Why did you start a similar thread at Win-Raid Forum?
You should better stick to MSFN Forums.

Hey ,

Simply because there are Win-Raid users who don't use MSFN, so to make the news more widespread, I chose to make it in Win-Raid as well.

Edit : I see you deleted the topic. Didn't you like the news? What you did is strange. What does MSFN have to do with Win-Raid ? What rule did you rely on?

Edited May 19 by windows2

[Fernando 1]

19 hours ago, windows2 said:

Didn't you like the news?

Which news do you mean? What is the benefit of your information for the W2k enthusiasts among the MSFN and Win-Raid Forum visitors? Where can they get the modded drivers respectively where is the guide about how to make Win8 drivers usable with Windows 2000?

Your thread at Win-Raid Forum has been removed by me, because its content was just a copy of your contribution at MSFN Forums (without declaring it as such). Furthermore I wanted to avoid any legal problems with the manufacturers of the original drivers. As founder and Admin of the related Forum I have to respect the Copyright rules.

Edited May 20 by Fernando 1

[windows2]

On 5/20/2025 at 11:26 AM, Fernando 1 said:

Which news do you mean? What is the benefit of your information for the W2k enthusiasts among the MSFN and Win-Raid Forum visitors? Where can they get the modded drivers respectively where is the guide about how to make Win8 drivers usable with Windows 2000?

Your thread at Win-Raid Forum has been removed by me, because its content was just a copy of your contribution at MSFN Forums (without declaring it as such). Furthermore I wanted to avoid any legal problems with the manufacturers of the original drivers. As founder and Admin of the related Forum I have to respect the Copyright rules.

no driver modding just it is based on kai schtrom's ntoskrnl extender as I mention in title. 

 https://winraid.level1techs.com/t/storport-for-windows-2003-with-smart-support/37069/2 ,

the iso is availaible in win2000_dev_community discord server, In MSFN I didn't publish it because of the rule there.