Windows 2000 and PCI-E 2.0

[VirtualLarry]

Just wondering, since if you use a version of XP to install onto a system board with PCI-E 2.0 slots, it will BSOD on install if you don't have SP2 or later.

Does Win2000 have the same issue? Is it fixed if you slipstream SP4?

 

[postmortemIA]

SP4 is older than XP SP2, probably older than XP SP1.

windows 2000 is not OS of choice for modern hardware, if fails to make HLT calls when idle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLT), so your CPU will way run hotter than in XP or vista

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
SP4 is older than XP SP2, probably older than XP SP1.

windows 2000 is not OS of choice for modern hardware, if fails to make HLT calls when idle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLT), so your CPU will way run hotter than in XP or vista

Is there anyway to fix that?

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: pcslookout

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
SP4 is older than XP SP2, probably older than XP SP1.

windows 2000 is not OS of choice for modern hardware, if fails to make HLT calls when idle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLT), so your CPU will way run hotter than in XP or vista

Is there anyway to fix that?

it was supposed to work out-of-box, but it doesn't. Windows 2000 needed often extra driver for CPU for this reason.

RightMark CPU Clock Utility (RMClock) can dothis, but hasn't been updated since 2008. Other util is non-free CPUIdle.