PCI-E and WindowsNT

[dkd6517]

Does someone know PCI-E (video and LAN) hardware running on WindowsNT?
Or Windows NT does not support new PCI-E hardware?

 

[nsafreak]

Windows NT as in NT 4.0 because XP and Vista are based around the NT core. I'm guessing that you're talking about 4.0 and I highly doubt that you could get PCI-E to work properly (if at all) underneath the platform as I'm sure that there aren't any drivers available. Why on earth would you want to try anyways?

 

[drag]

If you need NT for legacy application support for some bizzare reason run it in a VM.

Otherwise avoid it. I realy doubt that you're going to get support for any remotely modern hardware.

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: drag
If you need NT for legacy application support for some bizzare reason run it in a VM.

Otherwise avoid it. I realy doubt that you're going to get support for any remotely modern hardware.

This guy speaks the truth.

Linux + VMWare Server + Windows NT in a VM.

 

[dkd6517]

Thank You people,
but what about performance (compared to clear WindowsNT)? I've just bought new DualCore AMD to increase performance.

 

[Nothinman]

Please stop using WindowsNT to refer to NT 4 as if it's the only release of NT, if you look you'll see that XP is NT 5.1 and Vista is 6.0.

But NT 4 isn't supported any more so you really should follow drag's advice and only run it under some form of virtualization if you really need it these days.