Running Windows 2000 on the new Intel cpu's

[Guest sherwindu]

Does anyone have any knowledge or experience of running Windows 2000 on the

newer Intel Duo and Quad processors? Will I have difficulties migrating my

programs or even installing Windows 2000 on these cpu based boards?

 

Sherwin

[Guest DL]

Re: Running Windows 2000 on the new Intel cpu's

 

I ran win2k on a dual core, with no problems

Its not so much as to whether the o/s or apps can be installed, which they

can, but whether any of these are able to utilise the multi cores, most

cannot.

 

"sherwindu" <sherwindu@comcast.net> wrote in message

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> Does anyone have any knowledge or experience of running Windows 2000 on

> the

> newer Intel Duo and Quad processors? Will I have difficulties migrating

> my

> programs or even installing Windows 2000 on these cpu based boards?

>

> Sherwin

>

[Guest philo]

Re: Running Windows 2000 on the new Intel cpu's

 

 

"sherwindu" <sherwindu@comcast.net> wrote in message

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> Does anyone have any knowledge or experience of running Windows 2000 on

the

> newer Intel Duo and Quad processors? Will I have difficulties migrating

my

> programs or even installing Windows 2000 on these cpu based boards?

>

> Sherwin

>

 

 

Win 2k should have no problem installing on a dual or quad core machine...

but it will not recognize more than 2 cores.

 

Also: If the motherboard does not have win2k chipset drivers, the machine

may not fully function.

 

In general I've been able to use XP drivers on the win2k machines I've set

up,

but there is of course no guarantee they'd work.

[Guest sherwindu]

Re: Running Windows 2000 on the new Intel cpu's

 

 

 

philo wrote:

> "sherwindu" <sherwindu@comcast.net> wrote in message

> news:48000020.2B2A5047@comcast.net...

> > Does anyone have any knowledge or experience of running Windows 2000 on

> the

> > newer Intel Duo and Quad processors? Will I have difficulties migrating

> my

> > programs or even installing Windows 2000 on these cpu based boards?

> >

> > Sherwin

> >

>

> Win 2k should have no problem installing on a dual or quad core machine...

> but it will not recognize more than 2 cores.

 

Can you provide more details on why Win 2k will recognize 2 cores and

not 4?

>

>

> Also: If the motherboard does not have win2k chipset drivers, the machine

> may not fully function.

>

> In general I've been able to use XP drivers on the win2k machines I've set

> up,

> but there is of course no guarantee they'd work.

 

I don't have access to XP. Would you think loading Vista would be the

right thing with a quad core?

 

Sherwin

[Guest DL]

Re: Running Windows 2000 on the new Intel cpu's

 

philo meant using the winxp chipset drivers obtained from the motherboard

site

 

Because when win2k was written 4 core cpu's were in the future

 

"sherwindu" <sherwindu@comcast.net> wrote in message

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>

>

> philo wrote:

>

>> "sherwindu" <sherwindu@comcast.net> wrote in message

>> news:48000020.2B2A5047@comcast.net...

>> > Does anyone have any knowledge or experience of running Windows 2000 on

>> the

>> > newer Intel Duo and Quad processors? Will I have difficulties

>> > migrating

>> my

>> > programs or even installing Windows 2000 on these cpu based boards?

>> >

>> > Sherwin

>> >

>>

>> Win 2k should have no problem installing on a dual or quad core

>> machine...

>> but it will not recognize more than 2 cores.

>

> Can you provide more details on why Win 2k will recognize 2 cores and

> not 4?

>

>>

>>

>> Also: If the motherboard does not have win2k chipset drivers, the machine

>> may not fully function.

>>

>> In general I've been able to use XP drivers on the win2k machines I've

>> set

>> up,

>> but there is of course no guarantee they'd work.

>

> I don't have access to XP. Would you think loading Vista would be the

> right thing with a quad core?

>

> Sherwin

>

>

[Guest philo]

Re: Running Windows 2000 on the new Intel cpu's

 

 

"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message

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> philo meant using the winxp chipset drivers obtained from the motherboard

> site

>

> Because when win2k was written 4 core cpu's were in the future

 

 

 

That's correct. There is no way I can think of to get win2k to "see" quad

cores.

When Win2k was released, there was no such thing as quad core cpu's. Win2k

was desigend to support single or dual cpu's...

so will work on a dual core cpu

 

The bigger issue is the motherboard chipset drivers. Without them such

things as the HD controller may run in the PIO mode...

or certainly not at any optimized setting.

 

Unless the motherboard specifically has the win2k chipset drivers available,

there could be problems.

 

I have never tried using XP chipset drivers on a win2k system...so have no

idea if they would work or not.

 

Since XP and Win2k are pretty similar OS's I have often gotten XP drivers to

work in Win2k

but know for sure they will not always work

>

> "sherwindu" <sherwindu@comcast.net> wrote in message

> news:4800F78E.42216D38@comcast.net...

> >

> >

> > philo wrote:

> >

> >> "sherwindu" <sherwindu@comcast.net> wrote in message

> >> news:48000020.2B2A5047@comcast.net...

> >> > Does anyone have any knowledge or experience of running Windows 2000

on

> >> the

> >> > newer Intel Duo and Quad processors? Will I have difficulties

> >> > migrating

> >> my

> >> > programs or even installing Windows 2000 on these cpu based boards?

> >> >

> >> > Sherwin

> >> >

> >>

> >> Win 2k should have no problem installing on a dual or quad core

> >> machine...

> >> but it will not recognize more than 2 cores.

> >

> > Can you provide more details on why Win 2k will recognize 2 cores and

> > not 4?

> >

> >>

> >>

> >> Also: If the motherboard does not have win2k chipset drivers, the

machine

> >> may not fully function.

> >>

> >> In general I've been able to use XP drivers on the win2k machines I've

> >> set

> >> up,

> >> but there is of course no guarantee they'd work.

> >

> > I don't have access to XP. Would you think loading Vista would be the

> > right thing with a quad core?

> >

> > Sherwin

> >

> >

>

>