Win2K or Whistler?

[Biggs]

What's the road to take?

 

[noxipoo]

Win2k. Whistler isn't out.

 

[BCYL]

For now go with win2k first... but once Whistler comes out and become stable, you can then decide if you wanna upgrade or not...

 

[FOBSIDE]

win2k has proven itself to be a good operating system. who knows if whistler will end up being like ME. go with win2k for now is my vote.

 

[heng1028]

can you play all the games in Win2k??

and is win2k supporting ATA100 now??

 

[PowerJoe]

Windows ME = Windows 98 third edition
Windows 2000 = NT5
Windows Whistler = NT5.1

Whistler is more like 2000 that ME.

-PJ

 

[ManSnake]

win2k for now, should wait awhile before install whistler!

 

[smp]

You guys mean to tell me that I can't install Win2K because it doesn't support ata 100? Cause the Win2K setup doesn't recognize my hard drive.. ???

 

[Gouky]

About win2k not regognizing these extra controler cards... i was able to install win2k by providing my ultra66 driver disk as an additional scsi driver when you begin the install. i think that screen might only appear if youère doing a fresh install, on an upgrade it might not ask and you might lose your hard drive 1/2 way trough the install and fail till you reformat.

if someone needs more help with this, feel free to ask me specific questions, i can awnser them, i remember though, it's a pain in the but to install win2k on an unsuported controler card.

 

[dcdomain]

Your drives should automatically drop down to ata66. Win2k should install fine. Both of my drives are ata100, and I had no problems installing Win2k.

 

[GT1999]

I've used Whistler Beta 1 and it's a GREAT OS. The only thing I don't like about it is the nasty start menu, which you can change back (and I recommend you do, to). I'm using W2k now and games work great. I play CS, Q3, AOEII, and some others.