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re: Driver Conversion, WinXP to W2K, AMD Radeon (Dex?)
Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 6:35 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kiwi
(2111 messages posted)
Just as an FYI update, I did find an Omega driver that did not object to Win2000,
but can't be used anyway because of the screen resolution. W2K refuses to offer
better than 640 by 480 (though it claims it will, but doesn't follow up on the promise).
The various action buttons in the Omega versions of ATI's drivers have no text on
them, just loose patterns of dots in neat rows.
The author of the Conversion tool replied, and said it is working for him with ATI's
8.x drivers, and so far he couldn't explain why it wouldn't work for me.
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Kiwi
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On Monday, July 14, 2008 at 5:09 am, Kiwi wrote:
>Sometimes, when they have their thinking caps on, or if they are feeling a financial
>pinch, my relatives ask me to assemble a custom PC for them. I think, no matter
>how I describe my DIY results, a few are less impressed than if it had a real brand
>name.
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>When the HD 2400 Pro was still very new, I used it as the compromise part, when
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>myself I would have preferred the X1650 Pro for only a couple of dollars more. That
>nephew wanted "all the newest" at "the cheapest cost", using the same OS he's been
>using (W2K), and never has been one to listen to advice. He's had no complaints
>I've heard of since he got what he specified.
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>Now I have assembled a newer PC for his sister to use, although she does listen,
>whether she absorbs much of it or not. It has an HD 3650 right now, and she doesn't
>care what OS I put on it (so it will probably get XP), but I want to use an HD 3850
>with Win2K in the dual boot on one of my own (no Win98se any more for the very latest
>hardware).
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>ATI stopped offering drivers for the last two VGA generations that would install
>to Windows2000. The small program that is supposed to convert a regular driver
is
>being balky, and I will look at what Driver Guide has, of course, although I would've
>sworn, right up to arriving there, that the Rage 3D site was where I'd found a preconverted
>7.x driver for my nephew's VGA.
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>Kiwi
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