to hell and back (the XPerience)

[davepoet]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by emr:
<strong>davepoet,

I have had the same problem with Ati Rage Pro cards on W2k. No idea why it does this but when you try to install the drivers it comes up with the same message as you are getting then the install app closes. Very annoying.

I would be interested to hear what Ati say about this if you ever get a response.

Ewan</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I e-mailed ATI but have yet to hear a response from them.

I was running an ATI XPert98 (PCI 16MB) on Win 2K without any problems.

I have my current card working with both the retail drivers from the CD as well as the referrence drivers and they both install fine. But who doesnt want to use newest drivers?

I will let you know when/if I ever hear back from them!

[gxavier]

XP Pro is the best. I upgraded from 2k Pro and I have never been happier. One of the most noticible advances is just plain and simple, the startup time. Win2k loads slow as hell. WinXP loads faster than an Apple IIe. Its great.

Ive never had any problems...whatsoever.

If Xp is being gay on you....its your hardware. not m$.

[CodeDragon]

I've just gone over to XP Pro from a dual boot 98/2k system, and it's growing on me. I've had no applications crash on me so far, and it's behaved itself really well with all my hardware, which I previously had problems with under 2K.

The only thing that I didn't like about XP was the UI, because I don't like people making arbitrary changes to the way I work, but again, it's growing on me. It's certainly a lot easier to get to the programs I want now.

All in all, I'd say that there isn't much point upgrading from 2K, providing that your 2K install is stable (which mine wasn't).

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