[trimis]

I noted you have a list of boards/chipsets known to run Windows 98:
http://www.msfn.org/...ith-windows-9x/
and was wondering if there is a similar list here for Windows 2000? I've already found such a list at Microsoft site, but its very outdated, and does not seem to mention any AMD chipsets. I've been told that the key to finding boards that support any legacy OS is through the southbridge chipsets.

[tomasz86]

The topic should be in the other forum

but in case of Windows 2000 (thanks to BlackWingCat's unofficial drivers) it should be actually possible to support probably all of the current mainboards. Of course there may be problems with peripherals such as integrated HD Audio, LAN, etc. but in case of main chipsets and graphics (AMD, Intel, NVIDIA) there should be no problems with finding drivers.

This post has been edited by tomasz86: 06 December 2011 - 10:39 PM

[Phenomic]

Win2000 runs on all current AMD mobos, though sometimes installing it may take some work, see here for some pointers.

[Browncoat]

Phenomic, on 09 December 2011 - 03:11 PM, said:

Win2000 runs on all current AMD mobos, though sometimes installing it may take some work, see here for some pointers.

Hooray for AMD and I see from some sales promos for bare-bones that the Sempron is still
supported, as i have some applications/work for lower wattage single core CPUs.

Despite the 3x the speed I haven't been impressed by my P4s, they seem no better than a
PIII unless you go to a dual core.

[billtodd]

Phenomic, on 09 December 2011 - 03:11 PM, said:

Win2000 runs on all current AMD mobos, though sometimes installing it may take some work, see here for some pointers.

Since a quick search didn't reveal any answer to this, could you confirm that the statement above applies to the new (a-series FM1 and AM3+) motherboards as well as the earlier AMx ones? The Web sites for at least some FM1 boards don't seem to include drivers for anything prior to XP (nor does the AMD site), and for an integrated GPU one might expect drivers beyond what's available in the Win2K distribution to be required.

Thanks.

[tomasz86]

I've just bought ASRock A55 Pro3 (FM1, AMD A55 chipset) and Windows 2000 works flawlessly. I haven't tried the integrated graphics though as I'm using an external one. I think BWC unofficial drivers should work for it nevertheless. As for the SATA drivers, BWC unofficial ones work fine.

On the other hand, SATA3 and USB3.0 drivers don't work but these are not from AMD (A55 chipset doesn't have SATA3/USB3.0 so there are other controllers installed on the board).

[Phenomic]

tomasz86, on 10 March 2012 - 03:10 PM, said:

I've just bought ASRock A55 Pro3 (FM1, AMD A55 chipset) and Windows 2000 works flawlessly. I haven't tried the integrated graphics though as I'm using an external one. I think BWC unofficial drivers should work for it nevertheless. As for the SATA drivers, BWC unofficial ones work fine.

On the other hand, SATA3 and USB3.0 drivers don't work but these are not from AMD (A55 chipset doesn't have SATA3/USB3.0 so there are other controllers installed on the board).

Thank you, maybe FM2 will work too. USB3 driver doesn't work, but AM3 USB3 wasn't BIOS bootable, so not very useful. Also when I connect HDMI cable Win2k crashes, not sure if the problem is with BWC's driver.