>
>I am trying to upgrade my Win95 installation (to Win2K Pro using a full install disk).
>During the install, Windows Installer states that there is a conflict between my
>motherboard and my video card, then the installation app quits.
>
>My video is onboard the motherboard. In addition, I use an addon PCI video card and
>have disabled the on-board video in the current hardware profile (the chipset does
>not allow the video to be turned off completely; regardless, the install fails when
>I use on-board video also).
>
>The motherboard/video combo is on the XP approved list (the Win2K approved list is
>not working so I haven't been able to check against that list). It is new as of last
>Christmas and I have all the Windows 2000 drivers loaded on the hard drive.
>
>Is there some way to bypass this step in the installation?
>
>Hardware info:
>Motehrboard: MSI MS-6387
>
>Any ideas are appreciated!
>
>-tomas (tavera@sbcgobal.net) You could attempt installing 2000 without the ACPI HAL. I believe during the first few moments of the setup procedure you hit F5. See MS Article Q246236. The hardware maybe compatible with 2000 but not completely ACPI compliant. If you use the Standard HAL instead of the ACPI HAL devices will be assigned real IRQs just like in 95/98 instead of sharing them and this may clear up some of your issues. Then again it may not :)

Written in response to: Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (Tomas Vera: Monday, June 17, 2002 at 11:06 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware ' (Sean: Thursday, June 20, 2002 at 7:13 pm)

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