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Reply 60 of 68, by wierd_w

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I'd like to see a proper gpu miniport driver, and not a generic framebuffer driver.

That, plus working baytrail audio, would let me use that BIOS-ized minnowboard Max I have sitting around with win2k, which would run 'quite acceptably' on that cpu. (N3600 series, iirc.)

Reply 61 of 68, by Start me up

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wierd_w wrote on 2024-10-16, 08:30:

That, plus working baytrail audio, would let me use that BIOS-ized minnowboard Max I have sitting around with win2k, which would run 'quite acceptably' on that cpu. (N3600 series, iirc.)

Were you thinking about audio over HDMI or does the board have a separate audio connector?

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Reply 62 of 68, by myne

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Baytrail... Unlikely. pretty sure they were hdmi only.

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Reply 64 of 68, by Start me up

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pachuco wrote on 2024-10-16, 19:50:

Someone mentioned ACPI in this thread, so I remember bumping into this.
https://github.com/UltraOS/uACPI

That's a very interesting project, I didn't know about. Thank you for sharing, pachuco.

From what I understood this project has already done quite a lot of the development and is currently working on final issues, for example thread safety. The main developer is still active.

And there is someone else who tries to port it to ReactOS, if I understood that one correctly.

The ACPI driver from Windows 2000 (ACPI.sys) prevents some machines from booting. So any efforts in this direction might turn out to be valueable to increase the compatibility with modern hardware.

The uACPI project seems to have a big chunk of what's necessary to write an ACPI driver, but the Windows 2000 specifics are still missing.

So all in all this project is so far the most promissing path to improve the compatibility of Windows 2000 with ACPI.

Reply 65 of 68, by digger

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As part of such a project, an Intel HDA driver for Windows 2000 that works with most recent motherboard and laptop chipsets would be useful.

Reply 66 of 68, by wierd_w

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myne wrote on 2024-10-16, 10:10:

Baytrail... Unlikely. pretty sure they were hdmi only.

No, on many early chromebooks, a baytrail audio solution is paired with a realtek codec to provide 'system speakers and mic'.

In the case of my minnowboard though, it is indeed the hdmi only setup.

Reply 67 of 68, by Gorden Malcom

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Can you tell me how to install the TP-Link TL-WN725N or RTL8188EU on Windows 2000 with modified drivers? I heard someone got it running under Windows 2000 by modifying the Windows XP driver, but they didn’t explain the procedure to modify the driver. Could you guide me on how to modify the drivers to make this work?

Reply 68 of 68, by myne

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https://www.overclockers.com/forums/threads/u … ws-2000.719773/

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