Windows 2000 pro question from a NT newbie

#1 pr-man

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Posted 19 February 2000 - 02:03 PM

Ok I have never used NT and I am about to install the final beta of windows 2000 on my system, looking at my specs does anyone see any problems?

K6-2 450
128 megs sdram
8.4 gig WD UDMA-33 HD
FIC PA-2013 rev 2.0 motherboard running 115JI37 bios
Matrox G400 32 meg SH AGP
Toshiba 6x DVD-rom
CTX VL710 17" monitor
HP Surestore 7200i cd-rewritable
AWE 64 Value
Diamond Supra Express 56i ISA

#2 Maeric

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Posted 19 February 2000 - 05:39 PM

I recommend running The Windows 2000 Readiness Analyzer or check the Upgrading to Windows 2000 page that Microsoft provides.

In particular check out the Hardware Compatibility List. It's that simple!

#3 Maverick494

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Posted 19 February 2000 - 06:38 PM

The only questionable thing that I see is the ISA modem. but you should go and check out the HCL from microsoft and see if all your stuff works.

#4 Mav98

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Posted 19 February 2000 - 06:59 PM

ISA, modem shouldn't be a problem, but you will probably have to set it up as a standard 56k modem, until drivers are availinle for it. The Surestore, won't have DirectCD until around march, but other than that, try out the readiness analyzer

#5 APV_SAV

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Posted 19 February 2000 - 07:00 PM

don't see much problem except win2000 will not detect your g400 as g400 it will detect it as a standard vga card, but you can update that driver to g400 w2k beta driver. my zoom isa modem was detected as unknown modem but it works.