re: Would NT4 questions, if any, be on-topic in this forum?
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6528 messages posted)
What game are you trying to run? NT4 isn't plug and play for hardware as is W2K.
I had to configure the hardware in NT. Try working with NT and you will be glad
for W2K, which had the installing and hardware configuration routines that Win 9X
did.
I still have a P5A that runs Win 9X and W2K without a hiccup (512 meg of RAM). Finally
going to give it away. But it was a great little machine and always stable even
if it was a little slow. If you are having issues with your installs on it, you
well may have a board that is going bad, or a piece of hardware that is causing issues.
I have mine overclocked from 500 to 550 on the processor and not a problem with
BSODs or corruption. I did however find that UDMA wouldn't function right in Win
98 or Win NT, but would function correctly with W2K on the ACPI HAL. It was to slow
for XP and the Standard PC HAL had to be used as the ACPI HAL wouldn't work. SO
the P5A is best suited for Win 9X or W2K, but not NT or XP IME..
You might get lucky to find help with NT4 here, but don't count on it. It was a
bear to work with and I for one couldn't wait to see it go. It will NOT be game
friendly in my experience. W2K was better, but not as good as Win 98 SE on a good
stable hardware platform. IME
Games got the proper support in Win XP Home finally. But you needed more hardware
horsepower as compared to Win 98.
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