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This might be it for my Windows 2000 journey sadly. Not quite sure yet though.
I built a new (to me) system and it's quite sweet. I'm running a Gigabyte Z68P-DS3 motherboard and the problem is lying in the SMBus driver along with the USB drivers. While browsing Blackwingcat's site on it last night, some of the stuff I'm finding doesn't seem to pertain to the issue I'm having. Essentially, none of the USB items work, nothing at all. And with the SMBus driver (chipset) not seemingly working correctly, I can't get the network driver working either. The stuff is detected but I end up with yellow circles with the black exclamation point. Not the way to start a new system build!
With all that, I tried Windows XP Pro x64 bit edition, especially because I have 16GBs of RAM installed in the system and it's working just fine and flying like a top. I'm tempted to try the latest HFSLIP disk with Windows 2000 and see if it works by unplugging my XP drive and installing it to my future Windows 7 drive before I actually install Windows 7 to see if it happens. But I'm almost tempted not to try it because even if it worked, I still can't properly use Windows 2000 with all the RAM in my system and therefor it's sort of a waste of money. So I'm very stuck on what I'm going to do. Windows 2000 has always been my favorite and if it's not going to work properly on the system, I can't use it. I'm not even sure if getting a separate USB card/network card would help either so I'm quite stuck indeed! I've used Windows 2000 for over 15 years and almost 10 years after it left support of Microsoft. It's been a great run, I'm hoping it's not quite over but it just might be unfortunately.
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I built a new (to me) system and it's quite sweet. I'm running a Gigabyte Z68P-DS3 motherboard and the problem is lying in the SMBus driver along with the USB drivers. While browsing Blackwingcat's site on it last night, some of the stuff I'm finding doesn't seem to pertain to the issue I'm having. Essentially, none of the USB items work, nothing at all. And with the SMBus driver (chipset) not seemingly working correctly, I can't get the network driver working either. The stuff is detected but I end up with yellow circles with the black exclamation point. Not the way to start a new system build!
With all that, I tried Windows XP Pro x64 bit edition, especially because I have 16GBs of RAM installed in the system and it's working just fine and flying like a top. I'm tempted to try the latest HFSLIP disk with Windows 2000 and see if it works by unplugging my XP drive and installing it to my future Windows 7 drive before I actually install Windows 7 to see if it happens. But I'm almost tempted not to try it because even if it worked, I still can't properly use Windows 2000 with all the RAM in my system and therefor it's sort of a waste of money. So I'm very stuck on what I'm going to do. Windows 2000 has always been my favorite and if it's not going to work properly on the system, I can't use it. I'm not even sure if getting a separate USB card/network card would help either so I'm quite stuck indeed! I've used Windows 2000 for over 15 years and almost 10 years after it left support of Microsoft. It's been a great run, I'm hoping it's not quite over but it just might be unfortunately.
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