Products based on ATI's Mobility™ product line, including RAGE Mobility P™, RAGE Mobility M™ and RAGE LT PRO™, are supported by a generic graphics driver included on the Windows? 2000 release CD. The basic driver on the Windows? 2000 CD may not offer some of the custom features provided by the manufacturer of your laptop. Some examples are OpenGL or custom control panels.

The MS Windows 2000 release CD include drivers for RAGE 128, RAGE XL, RAGE XC, RAGE PRO, RAGE LT PRO, RAGE IIC, RAGE II+, RAGE II, and mach 64/VT. This means that any board product using those chips will be supported for the following features: Drivers for RAGE 128 PRO™ boards are not included on the Windows? 2000 release CD.

Windows 2000 drivers will not be made available for legacy or discontinued products. This includes 3D PRO Turbo PC2TV, 3D XPRESSION+ PC2TV, 3D XPRESSION+ -, original All-in-Wonder, ATI-TV, Video Basic, Video-It! and ATI Modems. ATI does have a trade up program for specific legacy products. Please check driver availability for the product you are interested in before upgrading.

Windows 2000 is the new name for Windows NT 5.0, the replacement for the current Windows NT 4.0. It employs the same core technologies as NT, but adds many new ones that were not previously available in NT, such as Plug-and-Play, support for USB devices, power management, DirectX 7.x, etc. It is not for consumers, but for businesses.

ATI's modular control panels are not included on the release CD of Windows? 2000. This is restriction that Microsoft has placed on all graphics vendors. ATI control panels, enabling such features as Direct3D and OpenGL performance customization, monitor control, brightness and color controls, and advanced options will be available in separate driver releases.

It is possible to load NDIS 3.0 NDIS MAC drivers (and make them work) on Windows 2000, but Windows 2000 is the last release that it will support them. Microsoft is killing Full NIC driver support after Windows 2000.

Windows 2000 is an ideal operating system for laptops, provided your laptop can support it. Since laptops often feature proprietary hardware in the motherboard, display, network cards, video cards, integrated modems, and sound cards, not all laptops can run Windows 2000. If you're vendor supports Windows 2000 on your model, or if you're buying a new laptop that comes preloaded with Windows 2000, you'll like the stability and security that this OS brings. Windows NT 4.

Yes you will need to download the most recent version of Acer Notebook Manager, which offers enhanced functionality under Windows 2000.

Drivers for Windows 2000 may work for Windows XP but not digitally signed drivers for Microsoft certified hardware. Windows XP comes with the default "Safely Remove Hardware" utility similar to Bay Manager; therefore, additional utility application is not required.

ATI’s standard Catalyst driver stream supports the MCE operating system. Most recent display drivers for Windows XP Media Center Edition are located from the Drivers & Software site.

I'm unable to upgrade my Windows 2000 evaluation version to the full edition using a Windows 2000 upgrade CD.

In Windows 2000 all domain controllers are equal and through a process known as multi-master replication changes are replicated to all domain controllers in the domain. However in keeping with George Orwell's Animal Farm some Domain Controllers are more equal than others.

Windows 2000 was released into stores February 17, 2000. Some computer manufacturers were selling computers preinstalled with Win 2000 in January, however.

Windows 2000 Server/Advanced Server is the server edition of Windows 2000, which is designed to serve small- to mid-sized businesses and workgroups. Server supports up to 4GB of physical RAM and up to 4 processors per computer. Advanced Server supports up to 8GB of RAM and 8 processors per computer. Windows 2000 Datacenter Server is designed for large businesses and computer clusters.

Yes, Service Pack 1, Asteroid, was released July 31, 2000. Visit our Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 Page for more information.

GB hard disk with a minimum of 1 GB of free space. (Additional free hard disk space is required if you are installing over a network.) GB hard disk with a minimum of 1.0 GB free space. (Additional free hard disk space is required if you are installing over a network.) GB hard disk with a minimum of 1.0 GB free space. (Additional free hard disk space is required if you are installing over a network.) gigabyte (GB) hard disk with a minimum of 1 GB free space.

If you must upgrade today, choose NT5 on two conditions: You should have 32MB of RAM and your hardware, software and peripherals must support NT. Otherwise, choose Win98--particularly for games. If you can delay an upgrade decision until later this year, choose Win2000 on two conditions: You should have 64MB of RAM and a 166MHz processor, and your hardware, software and peripherals must support it. Otherwise, choose Win98.

The features in Windows 2000 are great. Check out our features page for the full list of new features on Windows 2000 Professional and the features page for Windows 2000 Server.

Microsoft Windows 2000 is now very suitable for gaming with recently released games, especially ones from Microsoft. However, Microsoft has been releasing compatiblity updates on their website to fix issues with some older games. There may be some very early games (especially DOS) that will not work on Windows 2000.

Yes, however the requirements for Windows 2000 are great. At minimum you would need 32 MB of Ram, 64 MB recommended.

You can configure your computer to start Windows 2000, Windows NT, and either Windows 95 or Windows 98. However, you cannot configure a computer to multiple boot Windows 95 and Windows 98. Both Windows 95 and Windows 98 use the same boot file. Therefore, multiple booting Windows 95 and Windows 98 at the same time is not supported. Your installations are less prone to problems if you install Windows 95 or Windows 98 before you install Windows NT and Windows 2000.

This new program is specifically designed to address the demanding requirements of enterprise customers and will include a joint support team with server vendors for single-point-of-contact support, rigorous system testing and qualification focused on the entire system vs. individual components, coordinated maintenance and change control for hardware and software updates, and new Microsoft Certified Support Center (MCSC) for Datacenter requirements.

The MCSE on Windows 2000 credential is appropriate for IT professionals who work in the typically complex computing environment of medium-to-large organizations. We recommend that an MCSE on Windows 2000 have at least one year of experience implementing and administering a server operating system.

The Metafile format, also referred to as Picture (one of two standard Windows graphics formats used in Clipboard and disk file representations of graphs; file name extension *.wmf) stores a picture as a set of descriptions or definitions of all components of the graph and their attributes (e.g., segments of lines, colors and patterns of those lines, specific fill patterns, text and text attributes, etc.).

MS WindowsTM 2000 RC-2 and later ships with a driver for the BayStack 660 Wireless LAN PC Card. See the Windows 2000 Issues page for further details, including how to enable the use of this driver for BayStack 650 PC Cards. Note: This driver is an 802.11 mode driver ONLY, Netwave mode cards (i.e. the Xircom CNW, Netwave AirSurfer and AirSurfer Plus (in Netwave mode) cards) are not supported on this OS.

A No. The IPSG USB flash drive is natively supported in Windows ME, 2000, and XP. Drivers are not required.

Development for WaveLAN Legacy products such as the WaveLAN/PCMCIA and WaveLAN/EAM or WaveLAN/ISA adapters was closed in 1998. Therefore no further development will take place for these products. Although the Windows versions of these tools will work fine under Win 95, Win 98, Win 98 SE, use of these tools under Windows 2000 has not been tested and will not be supported. Using these tools under Windows 2000 will be at own risk to the user.

Windows 2000 running on laptops detects whenever the network cable is unplugged. It blocks access to the network card, thus preventing FLEXlm to obtain the ethernet id. If a license is bound to the ethernet id, the license cannot be used anymore, until the network cable is plugged in again. This detection of unplugging the network cable can be deactivated, by running the following registry file: relocation error: ./lmgrd: symbol errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file lib.so.

Definitely go for Windows XP for the simple reason that it is designed for both the business & consumer thus is more adept at games playing.