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Installing Windows 2000 Professional

  • 10-07-2000 4:12pm
    #1
    Bard
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    Am doing this tonight - installing Win2K Pro as an upgrade from WinNT Server 4.0, because NT4 doesnt support USB and is having serious issues with Setup programs created in InstallShield, and because I want Win2K, basically.

    Anyone have any last minute reccommendations or suggestions re installing or running Win2K?
    Bard

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  • #2
    WhiteWashMan
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    well, installed it last week onto my nt4 drive. i didnt do the upgrade, just the basic replace operating system option and its working fine. didnt format, repartition or anything. everything that was there before is still there, with the exception of course of the nt stuff. tis all win2k anow and working fine.
    i might re ghost nt on it and then try the upgrade to see what happens myself tomorrow


  • #3
    quozl
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    Yeah its a piece of ****. easiest windows install yet. And it doesnt fall over anything like as much as I expected it to. Quite nice.
    Greg


  • #4
    Bard
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    Ok - did it... had a few problems getting my DVD player working, but got another one working instead, so thats ok. Then again, - seems DirectX 7 is incompatible with Win2K, as is OpenGL, so NO QUAKE III!!! Argh!

    Doesn't seem to be picking up my USB camera either- apart from that,... seems like a groovy O/S although I'll give it time!!!
    Bard

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  • #5
    Cake Fiend
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    I was playing Q3 on a Win2K machine in college...


  • #6
    WhiteWashMan
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    funnily enough, ive just started studying for mcp exam in win2kpro, and it says in my nice microsoft book, that it is compatible with directx 7. either that, or it ships with it, not sure which.
    but, i do know that it works.


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  • #7
    Bard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    Ok- perhaps it ships with it... can't claim to be very knowledgeable in it, all I know is that 98se had bombed out on my PC for the last time and I was having no more of it so I decided to go for the spiffy new model, Win2K Pro... and very nice it is too. It does seem though that OpenGL won't work... p|sses me off!...

    Sico- you have to do anything special to get QIII working?... It's a MUST, dammit! wink.gif


    Bard

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  • #8
    lphchild
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    I have q3 working as well...just installed the win2k drivers for my TNT from nvidia..
    no probs at all....Watch the USB support though, it's kinda buggy, sometimes you have to give it a few goes before the os catches on to the right device.

    The hibernate feature is cool as well.

    lphchild


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