Spent an interesting morning installing Windows 2000 Professional SP4 (LBA registry mod on install, PAE enabled) onto an old Dell Precision 690.
Pair of Intel Xeon X5365 processors and 16Gb FB-DIMM (4x 2Gb, 2x 4GB) over the memory risers.
Installed onto a 40Gb PATA disk (Master) with a LG DVD-RW (Slave)
IBM 500Gb SATA hard disk on SATA 0, with a pair of Seagate 250Gb disks on the SAS 5/iR striped set.
Discovered my Compaq branded Adaptec AHA-39160 dual channel SCSI U160 controller (66MHz PCI-X) doesnt get past its BIOS boot up 🙁
I didnt know Win2k Pro supports a TNT2 M64 with its own drivers... (Guillemot Cougar Video Edition PCI).
Its not much but its taken me a few months to find the SAS RAID drivers for Win2k...
Ive now saved them to floppy disk, which means the next step is to install onto the SAS RAID. But I would like to do that onto SAS disks not just SATA ones.
What I would like to ask is.
I know the last officially supported nvidia card for Win2k was the 8800 Ultra...
However I do have a 9400GT running on another Win2k system I have and that has nvidia official drivers, so Im wondering if the 9800 GX2 will run under the WinXP drivers installed onto Win2k.