The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Widnows 2000 Pro

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by bluefalcon, Apr 20, 2005.

  1. bluefalcon

    bluefalcon Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    4
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    A few days agao I tried to put windows 2000 on my averatec 5400 series. I came with Wondows XP home, but I wanted either XP pro or Windows 2000 Pro.

    So I installed it, but everytime I put in the VGA driver distributed by Averatec it never loads windows again. It just feezes on the loaidng screen. I was wondering if anyone had any idea why?
     
    bluefalcon, Apr 20, 2005
    #1
  2. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

    Reputations:
    4,982
    Messages:
    34,001
    Likes Received:
    1,415
    Trophy Points:
    581
    Cause it is made for XP, not 2k. Perhaps you could download the driver from the card manufacturer's website or let Windows Update look for a driver. Good Luck.





    I know things, things that could get me killed


    Thinkpad T41:
    * 1.6Ghz Pentium M * 768Mb Memory * 40Gb Hitachi 7200RPM * Panasonic UJ-845-B DVD+RW *
     
    ZaZ, Apr 21, 2005
    #2
  3. rustskull

    rustskull Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    13
    Messages:
    58
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    sometimes the XP/w2k drivers are one and the same, sometimes they're not.

    CHeck for OEM drivers. And for all its holes, WinXPpro is a far superior product to 2k in most respects. A lot of things they tried to do in 2k actually work in XP.
     
    rustskull, Apr 25, 2005
    #3
  4. bobcat7677

    bobcat7677 Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    3
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I put win2K SERVER on my 3250-H1. Just had to go around to all the hardware vendors websites and download the windows 2000 drivers. Took me a few hours to round them all up but it runs like a top. The only thing that doesn't work on mine is suspend to ram...but that's just because Win2k server doesn't allow it's host to suspend. If I had put win2k pro on there everything would work.
     
    bobcat7677, Jul 1, 2005
    #4