GJW
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Just got a new laptop at work and it came preconfigured with Win2k.
Only problem is that we need it to run a DOS program which has to directly access the COM ports and Win2k doesn't allow this.
The laptop is an HP nc8000 and it came with WinXP Pro install CDs (our IT guys are the ones who installed Win2k and they are useless so that avenue is definitely closed).
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I wiped the hard drive and installed a dual-boot setup with WinXP Pro and Win98 -- WinXP for day to day stuff and Win98 for running that particular DOS program (our last laptop was Win98 and it ran just fine).
Only problem now is that Win98 drivers are hard to come by and on top of that I've got a resource conflict between the video card (ATI) and the motherboard????
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Any tips so far?
The device manager will not allow me to modify the resources for either one so now I'm at an impasse.
Under WinXP (and Win2k) everything is fine so I'm sure it can't be a genuine hardware problem -- there has to be some setting or driver that's misbehaving.
I've installed the drivers for this particular Intel chipset hoping that that would reconfigure some of the motherboard resources but no luck.
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Anyone?
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Thanks much
Only problem is that we need it to run a DOS program which has to directly access the COM ports and Win2k doesn't allow this.
The laptop is an HP nc8000 and it came with WinXP Pro install CDs (our IT guys are the ones who installed Win2k and they are useless so that avenue is definitely closed).
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif
I wiped the hard drive and installed a dual-boot setup with WinXP Pro and Win98 -- WinXP for day to day stuff and Win98 for running that particular DOS program (our last laptop was Win98 and it ran just fine).
Only problem now is that Win98 drivers are hard to come by and on top of that I've got a resource conflict between the video card (ATI) and the motherboard????
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon8.gif
Any tips so far?
The device manager will not allow me to modify the resources for either one so now I'm at an impasse.
Under WinXP (and Win2k) everything is fine so I'm sure it can't be a genuine hardware problem -- there has to be some setting or driver that's misbehaving.
I've installed the drivers for this particular Intel chipset hoping that that would reconfigure some of the motherboard resources but no luck.
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
Anyone?
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif
Thanks much