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Great - good luck to you... ! Most, if not all of the problems I had with
my 5000 T had to do with the OS and not the hardware... Great piece of hardware- and with a good OS I believe you'll be happy for some time! "Pat Blank" wrote in message . .. Pat Blank wrote in : I want to upgrade a Presario 5BW220 from Windows ME to Windows 2000 Pro. I want to do a fresh install of Win2k. I've searched for drivers using Compaq's support as a guide. So far I have the following Win2k drivers: Compaq Inet keyboard driver (Compaq site) Latest Rompaq, if needed (Compaq's site) Color Management Software (Compaq's site, for certain monitors only) 810/810e video chipset driver for Win2k (Intel's site) ESS Allegro 1989 sound driver for Win2k (ESS site) PCTel HSP Modem driver for Win2k (PCTel site) I think this covers the driver's I need. The specs of the system a 667Mhz Celeron 192MB RAM 810/e Intel chipset Audio (Built in) Video (built in) No NIC 40x CD-ROM LiteOn CDRW PCTel 56K Micromodem My questions: Does it look like I've covered all the driver's I need? Will these driver's actually work? Is Win2k even an option for this setup? Are there any pitfalls I need to be aware of? Are any of these drivers unecessary for Win2k? Am I missing anything? In the event that I'm unable to use Win2k, I will need to reinstall ME. I'll save those questions for later if I need them. Thanks in advance for any assitance you can give me. Regards. Well I have successfully migrated (upgraded) from Windows Me to Windows 2000 Pro. All the drivers I found work well. I installed a NIC and I am ready to go. My only problem arose when I was burning CDs (using Nero). Burning was slow and the whole system seemed sluggish. I checked to see if DMA was enabled and it wasn't for the Secondary channel (it was for the hard drive). I set the controller to use DMA if available. When I rebooted, I found DMA was enabled. I tried burning again and it seemed to work fine but the CD I burned wasn't readable. So I was left with a system that burned CDs in PIO mode, albeit slowly, and burned coasters if DMA was enabled. So I went on a search for answers and came across the solution. I needed to install Intel's Application Accelerator software for my chipset (810). It set the controller to enable DMA (highest mode for each device). I did a reboot (actually twice to fully install), and my problem disappeared. Even the hard drive, which supposedly was already DMA enabled, seemed to work more quickly. Bottom-line, I am very pleased with how the system works now. Goodbye Me. -- Pat - pat(underscore)blank(at)hotmail(dot)com |
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