Well, I didn't call every shop in town but no I didn't come across
anything post-Win95 except NT4. Yeah, the Promise controller came with
pretty much all Windows drivers except 3.1.
Geeks.com has a PCI NIC and old Vantec M64 PCI video card both with NT4
drivers for very little cash (~$25). I'm trying to repair the
installation now because of error messages. The Control Panel add/remove
function won't uninstall the Radeon drivers or [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I can
get it fixed and find a version of Folding (I'm about to try installing
the non-GUI consol version) that will run on it I'll send for those 2
cards and should have it up and running.
Just in case that doesn't pan out I'm currently downloading Mandriva
2006 but I know little about Linux and am reluctant to spend days trying
to figure it out. I'll keep plugging away and eventually get it set up
some how. I hate 16 color graphics <g>. @:)>
Ben Ruset wrote:
You couldn't even find a copy of Windows 2000?
I mean, security updates and support for somewhat modern hardware is
nice. I'm amazed that the Promise controller had NT4 drivers.
Stan Zaske wrote:
I was looking for Win98se but couldn't locate a copy locally and Ebay
auctions kept bidding toward XP prices and I gave that up too. A local
shop had NT4 and I know from the Folding site that they have a version
that runs on that. I didn't anticipate so many pitfalls to such an old
OS. Makes me long for XP's no-brainer no fuss no muss installations. I
originally had XP Home on this old beast and it was a simple and quick
install from such old hardware. I haven't given up though as I'm
finally past the install and SP6 update. Reducing the partition to 4
gigs and FAT did the trick. Now if I could just get the proper driver
for my 3Com NIC to detect I should be set. Slowly but surely, step by
step...
Chris Reeves wrote:
WindowsME would see the drive.
So would say, Mandrake2006.. Now free to download
Or LinspireFree
Or Win98..
CW
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Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 8:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [H] NT4 ?.
8 gigs is what the setup app created. Thanks for the info. @:)>
JRS wrote:
You said less than 8 gig, I could be wrong, but I thought
NT4 had to
be on less than a 4 gig partition for the OS?
Did you try one that small?? :)
I have this old PII 333 MHz 'puter that I'm trying to get up and
running for [EMAIL PROTECTED] with an old copy of NT4 I picked
up locally.
The original 1997 hardrive died and I replaced it with a Promise
ATA100 controller and a WD 800JB. NT won't install despite
repeated
efforts even on a <8 gig C: partition. It partitions Drive C just
fine but chokes on the total size of the drive and won't go any
further (neither NTFS or FAT file system makes any difference). I
looked for a method of slipstreaming SP6 into it thinking
that would
upgrade it's ability to deal with modern sized disks but
apparently
that's not possible pre-Win2K. Does anybody have any ideas
on how I
might get this old OS installed on this old PC with a
modern drive so
I can give it a new reason to live? Hate to spend $ on the
overpriced
WinXP if I can help it. TIA and Happy Thanksgiving! @:)>
