ATI 4000 series video card for Windows 2000

[Joe]

My Asus P4T motherboard is on its last leg. I have a custom business accounting program that is not upgradable to XP as the company I purchased it from is out of business. I have been using the program for more than a decade and have thousands of irreplaceable records on its database.

I have a old used system I can replace it with BUT I have noticed that Collatz is giving great numbers with the GPU applications so I thought it might be worth trying to upgrade to a Asus P45 motherboard with a E6300 processor that I might be able to OC a bit.

I'm wondering if anybody has any suggestions as to a card that would work, I could also go with the GeForce cards.

I see there are Omega drivers for Win 2000 but they only seem to go to catalyst 7.12 and I think I will need at least 8.12 for the collatz application..

 

[Fox5]

I don't think the 4000 series cards are supposed to be very good for gpgpu. An nvidia card (or ati 5000 series) would be better. Nvidia also tends to have driver support for older systems, but you might be out of luck with win 2k. Windows XP drivers stand a strong chance of working on it, however, but neither nvidia or ati have support for any recent cards.

Also, are you sure the custom business accounting program won't work on XP, even if it's not designed for it? Besides that, could you get away with just virtualizing a windows 2000 install and running the program in that? With VMWare, I think you can even image a hard disk and directly turn it into a virtual machine.

 

[Joe]

Yeah I'm sure it wont work on Windaws XP I've tried many times. It really only works completely stable on my old Abit BP-6 that it was originally installed on. Haha...

The virtual machime idea sounds like something I should play around with..Thx

I'm thinking the Nvida cards might be my best bet I'll keep looking for drivers before pulling the trigger..

 

[MrPickins]

Virtual machine for sure.

It's practically tailor-made for your purpose.

 

[Fox5]

Yeah I'm sure it wont work on Windaws XP I've tried many times. It really only works completely stable on my old Abit BP-6 that it was originally installed on. Haha...

The virtual machime idea sounds like something I should play around with..Thx

I'm thinking the Nvida cards might be my best bet I'll keep looking for drivers before pulling the trigger..

ATi ended 2000 driver support after the x800 series, and nvidia after the geforce 7 series.

The virtual machine idea might work. Virtualbox is free if you don't mind doing a fresh install of win2k + the program.

 

[Joe]

A fresh install is questionable, as I say, the program only really works on the BP6 it was written for and the BP6 is not something I want to fool around much with.
I have found a EVGA GeForce 9500GT that I can add to the spare P4T I have and I can combine the Rambus to get to 1gb so I might get my antiques to last another 10 years...

 

[vailr]

The OP's post isn't very clear: is there any link between the "custom business accounting program" and "Collatz is giving great numbers with the GPU applications"?
Or are these two completely unrelated topics?
Did you try running the "custom business accounting program" in compatibility mode? Right-click the .exe file and select Compatibility. Sorry, but your statement that "the program only really works on the BP6 it was written for" is just difficult to believe. Software designed to run in Win2000 should also be able to run in WinXP SP3, at least in compatibility mode.
By the way: you DO have off-site backups of your "thousands of irreplaceable records", yes?

 

[bunnyfubbles]

there was a time recently when I was looking for modded drivers to get a Radeon 3650 to work in Win 2K and I found some Japanese guy who did it but I never got around to actually messing with it and have since lost track of that source. I'll do some digging to see what I can come up with.

found it:
http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/571484.html

looks like he's gotten it up to cat 9.12

 

[Joe]

Thanks so much bunny thats what I was looking for.