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win2k driver (or crack/converter) for ATI 4300 series vid card
I have a need to run Win2K on a newish box that has an "ATI Technologies Mobility 4300 series" video card connected to an LCD monitor. I have an application that was designed for NT4 but will also run on W2K, alas the app won't even install on XP so I am stuck at 640x480 VGA in W2K ... not too tasty on a 24" LCD. As far as replacing the software with something more modern it would be *way* cheaper to just build another comp or two or three so that isn't a viable option at this point. So far all I can find are XP, VISTA or W7 drivers. I had hopes that someone may have hacked a driver or .INF file that will allow the ATI installer to use an XP driver on Win2K. If it hoses W2K that's OK as I installed it on a spare drive and can redo it easily enough. Thanks for any leads, John |
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win2k driver (or crack/converter) for ATI 4300 series vid card
Am 28.01.2012 17:40, schrieb John:
I have a need to run Win2K on a newish box that has an "ATI Technologies Mobility 4300 series" video card connected to an LCD monitor. I have an application that was designed for NT4 but will also run on W2K, alas the app won't even install on XP so I am stuck at 640x480 VGA in W2K ... not too tasty on a 24" LCD. As far as replacing the software with something more modern it would be *way* cheaper to just build another comp or two or three so that isn't a viable option at this point. So far all I can find are XP, VISTA or W7 drivers. I had hopes that someone may have hacked a driver or .INF file that will allow the ATI installer to use an XP driver on Win2K. If it hoses W2K that's OK as I installed it on a spare drive and can redo it easily enough. Thanks for any leads, John Hello! Have you already tried to use the compatibility mode under xp? If no: right klick on the installer - properties - compatibility mode- as OS select Win NT and try to install the software. If this doesn't work for you, install virtual box and install there win2k. Leave the system running under xp because it is the last os supported by ati. Then install in the virtual w2k vbox guest additions and you are able to scale the screen to the resolution you want. best regards |
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win2k driver (or crack/converter) for ATI 4300 series vid card
On 1/31/2012 3:56 PM, oachkatzlschwoaf94 wrote:
Am 28.01.2012 17:40, schrieb John: I have a need to run Win2K on a newish box that has an "ATI Technologies Mobility 4300 series" video card connected to an LCD monitor. I have an application that was designed for NT4 but will also run on W2K, alas the app won't even install on XP so I am stuck at 640x480 VGA in W2K ... not too tasty on a 24" LCD. As far as replacing the software with something more modern it would be *way* cheaper to just build another comp or two or three so that isn't a viable option at this point. So far all I can find are XP, VISTA or W7 drivers. I had hopes that someone may have hacked a driver or .INF file that will allow the ATI installer to use an XP driver on Win2K. If it hoses W2K that's OK as I installed it on a spare drive and can redo it easily enough. Thanks for any leads, John Hello! Have you already tried to use the compatibility mode under xp? If no: right klick on the installer - properties - compatibility mode- as OS select Win NT and try to install the software. If this doesn't work for you, install virtual box and install there win2k. Leave the system running under xp because it is the last os supported by ati. Then install in the virtual w2k vbox guest additions and you are able to scale the screen to the resolution you want. best regards I don't see where you are going with the compatibility mode under XP? Although I do run XP on this comp as the primary OS, it was Win2K that I was trying to *dual boot* on the same comp. Win2K does boot and everything works except I can't find graphics drivers for the above mentioned ATI card so its 640x480 VGA on an HDMI capable card driving a 24" LCD. As I said not too tasty, in fact it would probably make me go blind Yea I tried all the free virtual offerings I could find and frankly 'Virtual Box' worked the best by a mile. The one failing of Virtual Box is it doesn't support a parallel port and that is one thing I must have to the run the old application as it uses a parallel port dongle to verify that you own the software. From what I have Googled this has been a long asked request of Virtual Box but pretty much ignored by the authors, they probably think every one wants it to run an old printer or scanner. Although VmWarePlayer supports the parallel port it couldn't do anything with the graphics and I was still stuck running W2K in 640x480 VGA ... yuck. Ms's 2007 offering that would run under an XP host was just outright buggy and didn't offer anything but 640x480 VGA either, plus it also didn't' support the parallel port. So I am still looking for a video driver to run W2K natively in a dual boot configuration. I must stress that an updated application capable of running on XP or W7 is extremely pricey (about $7k) plus there is about 12 years of work supporting the old version of the software that would be useless in the new version ... basically priceless. Thanks for your input, John |
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win2k driver (or crack/converter) for ATI 4300 series vid card
On 1/31/2012 3:56 PM, oachkatzlschwoaf94 wrote:
Am 28.01.2012 17:40, schrieb John: I have a need to run Win2K on a newish box that has an "ATI Technologies Mobility 4300 series" video card connected to an LCD monitor. I have an application that was designed for NT4 but will also run on W2K, alas the app won't even install on XP so I am stuck at 640x480 VGA in W2K ... not too tasty on a 24" LCD. As far as replacing the software with something more modern it would be *way* cheaper to just build another comp or two or three so that isn't a viable option at this point. So far all I can find are XP, VISTA or W7 drivers. I had hopes that someone may have hacked a driver or .INF file that will allow the ATI installer to use an XP driver on Win2K. If it hoses W2K that's OK as I installed it on a spare drive and can redo it easily enough. Thanks for any leads, John Hello! Have you already tried to use the compatibility mode under xp? If no: right klick on the installer - properties - compatibility mode- as OS select Win NT and try to install the software. If this doesn't work for you, install virtual box and install there win2k. Leave the system running under xp because it is the last os supported by ati. Then install in the virtual w2k vbox guest additions and you are able to scale the screen to the resolution you want. best regards Finally I had success using VmWarePlayer! I had to upgrade W2K to (unofficial) service pack 5.1 available at Major Geeks. Don't know what it added but it allowed VmWare tools to finally install and the graphics now work. John |
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