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Looked everywhere on INTEL page and I just keep getting in circles arround this site:
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scr...e=Windows*+2000&lang=eng&strOSs=19&submit=Go!
Anyway this is the board Im looking drivers for Windows 2000 SP4+hotfixes
EP-61BXA-M EPOX Slot 1 Intel 440BX

Usually I would just use the native windows drivers but they are fubar and also I have no AGP support. When there're disk activities the mouse just lages accross the screen.
And DMA is enabled

PC specs:
PII 400
192RAM
3d RAGE PRO AGP 2x
40GB IBM 7200RPM HDD Deathstar
 
See if this link has the driver you need, its a really old and rare version but has support for Win2000 :D

good luck

oldmx
 
Sweet. Gonna try them friday, when I get to my GF's computer :)

Any1 knows why I just keep getting in circles when trying to DL download drivers from INTEL site?
 
OldMX said:
See if this link has the driver you need, its a really old and rare version but has support for Win2000 :D

good luck

oldmx
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Tried to install it but the INSTLLAER says that the correct INF updates are already installed.
What else should I do? Since mouse still stutters when there are disk activities(lunching Firefox) and I still don't have AGP SUPPORT. Should I also install drivers for graphic card(ATI 3d RAGE PRO AGP 2x 8mb)? And ATM DX7 is installed, should I upgrade it?
 
That sounds more like a faulty Northbridge to me. The company I work for a lot of our older Compaq Deskpros are BX chipset and we use the native drivers in 2K and don't have any of those problems.

When you say no AGP support are you talking that an AGP video card in the board doesn't POST or won't load drivers in Windows?
 
it could just be long term loss of short term memory, but i had many bx boards from an intel and a qdi to an abit bh6, be6, bf6, be6-2, be6-2 v2, asus p2b, p3b, and several soyo boards and i dont ever remember using a chipset driver.
 
The_Mage18 said:
That sounds more like a faulty Northbridge to me. The company I work for a lot of our older Compaq Deskpros are BX chipset and we use the native drivers in 2K and don't have any of those problems.

When you say no AGP support are you talking that an AGP video card in the board doesn't POST or won't load drivers in Windows?
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DXDIAG says there's no AGP SUPPORT although I an AGP card is present.
Could it be because the GPU is using native Win2k drivers?
 
vanilla_guerilla said:
it could just be long term loss of short term memory, but i had many bx boards from an intel and a qdi to an abit bh6, be6, bf6, be6-2, be6-2 v2, asus p2b, p3b, and several soyo boards and i dont ever remember using a chipset driver.
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What do U mean by LONG TERM LOSS OF SHORT TERM MEMORY?
 
bigdaddy said:
DXDIAG says there's no AGP SUPPORT although I an AGP card is present.
Could it be because the GPU is using native Win2k drivers?
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Depends on the card. Can you install newer drivers for the card? If you have any resolution higher than 640x480 at 16 colors you have SOME kind of driver loaded and working via AGP communication. Only XP can do any resolution and/or color depth without an actual driver loaded.
 
Interesting, I never used chipset drivers for my old BX6r2 on Win98 or 2k.

The drivers that came with the OS were compatible.
 
The_Mage18 said:
Depends on the card. Can you install newer drivers for the card? If you have any resolution higher than 640x480 at 16 colors you have SOME kind of driver loaded and working via AGP communication. Only XP can do any resolution and/or color depth without an actual driver loaded.
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Currently ATI 3d RAGE PRO AGP 2x driver is installed which is the native Win2k drivers. And I can sellect resolution as high as my monitor supports. But AGP still is not available in DXDIAG?
 
Can't say that I really recall installing the chipset drivers for any LX / BX board either. Try playing around with something like BartPE to see if you still get the mouse stuttering thing running it. On second thought, it might take longer to load Bart on your machine that it'll take to burn it. Does it do the same thing in safe mode?

And yes, I would put the actual ATI drivers on the machine if ATI has a version that is more recent than the ones that MS is prroviding. Keep in mind that the video drivers that MS puts out are what is needed to MINIMALLY run Windows safely (think workstation environment). No real 3d support (D3D or otherwise). OTOH, if you aren't doing any gaming, then it probably isn't really necessary. At one point in the past, I forgot to install the ATI drivers for a card and wondered why I was getting two frames a second in Tribes.
 
Have you thought about may 'upgrading' the Vid Card itself... that Rage is a pretty sad card at best (and yes I have the right to say that as my old Rage II is sitting on my desk above my monitor)...

You may find that a $20 Geforce 2 will solve this issue...
 
The machine is working fine now. It was so slugish and the mouse stuter because both NIC cards were set to automaticly determine speed. And now I've set them manually to 100MB/s FULL DUPLEX and the sistem is very responsive now.
Any1 know why this would make the sistem so slugish?
 
Could have been poor drivers or a low quality switch. We have some devices at work that won't work on auto-negotiate but work fine if the port is set to 100/Full.
 
None of that. Since the same NIC's am using at home with same drivers. And also there's no switch. Apperantly there were some incopatibilities with the mother board and NIC's.
Thank god its fixed now
 
bigdaddy said:
The machine is working fine now. It was so slugish and the mouse stuter because both NIC cards were set to automaticly determine speed. And now I've set them manually to 100MB/s FULL DUPLEX and the sistem is very responsive now.
Any1 know why this would make the sistem so slugish?
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Because they are sharing the same I/O resources. Win2k was the first OS to work in this condition, but it was very sluggish doing so and only in ACPI mode where the OS created virtual IRQ's and I/O addresses to get around poor hardware configurations.

Had you moved the NIC's to different slots and experimented turning off system devices not in use, you might have resolved the issue that way as well. I would still suggest disable parallel and serial ports within system bios, that is, as long as they are not actively being used.
 
BBA said:
Because they are sharing the same I/O resources. Win2k was the first OS to work in this condition, but it was very sluggish doing so and only in ACPI mode where the OS created virtual IRQ's and I/O addresses to get around poor hardware configurations.

Had you moved the NIC's to different slots and experimented turning off system devices not in use, you might have resolved the issue that way as well. I would still suggest disable parallel and serial ports within system bios, that is, as long as they are not actively being used.
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Yes, I know all of this. That's way ACPI is disabled on that machine, and also I have put NIC's in those slots so they don't share IRQs and also USB,SERIAL are disabled for even more free IRQs only LPT is enabled.. But I still had that problem, until I manually put the cards to 100MB/s.
 
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