re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000'
Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 6:30 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by otto
(1 messages posted)
I find this amazing that so many people have had so many issues running Win 2K.
I have a MSI K7T266 MoBo (one of the first w/ the VIA KT266A chipset), AMD XP 1700+,
GEForce 3, SB Audigy, 512 DDR2100 running Win 2K. It also has a wide variety of
USB devices running on it. This machine has been rock solid for over a year with
no 4 in1 patch. This machine runs everything from games to high-end rendering apps.
The one and only blue screen I have ever seen was from Ghost 2003 trying to run on
USB 2.0 drivers on the switch to PC-DOS to run Ghost. That's expected since a K7T266
does not have an USB 2.0 controller, it only supports USB 1.1.
I have since upgraded the MoBo from another machine to the R-U version, which has
an RAID controller and USB 2.0.
It has run perfectly until today when it booted up and blue screened on a driver
address (alleged). I disabled the shadowing in the BIOS and everything was fine
again. Win 2K does mention disabling the system cache and shadowing in the blue
screen.
I plan to upgrade the O/S to XP and anticipate no problems since the original MoBo
has been placed in the R-U donating machine with XP Pro running with no issues.
I have never heard too many issues aside from hardware compatibility issues with
Win2K. I have seen issues with AMD CPUs, TNT and SB Live chipsets running NT and
Win 2K but the 4 in 1 driver set usually cures that. AND I have seen that to properly
run hardware, drivers MUST support Win2K and XP. Anything less, you’re asking for
problems, most likely BIG problems.
……..then again I just may be lucky.
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