If you did an upgrade (instead of a complete fresh install of W2k) your
current problem is probably the first of a great many. You can save a
great deal of time and many headaches by formatting that system
partition and installing W2k with no traces of W9x.
That's assuming your machine is capable of running W2k. Some old PCs,
particularly if designed to work with W9x and delivered with W9x
preinstalled, may not have hardware that meets the stringent W2k
performance criteria - or may simply not have drivers for the newer W2k.
Some major brand retailers have built PCs designed to work with some
operating systems but not others, using low-cost components as a
price-cutting measure.
You can run a simple test from the W2k CD while your W2k is running:
- open a W2k command prompt
- change to the CD drive letter
- navigate to the i386 directory
- run the following command EXACTLY as shown; it will check your
system and report problems it finds:
winnt32.exe /checkupgradeonly
Winnt32 is the W2k install program, but with the /checkupgradeonly
parameter it does not start an install. It only inspects and reports.
It is the 32-bit installer and must run in a 32-bit environment. The
16-bit installer, designed to run under DOS, does not have that parameter.
I recently upgraded to windows 2000 from win 98, but my graphics are poor, i
cant seem to find an updated driver to try to make this work properly. Any
body any advice as what to do
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