Windows 2000 arrived!!!!

[jman01pa]

Yahoo! I recieved my copy of Windows 2000 today. As promised by Microsoft. I was one of the first 1000 winners. Am i the first on Sysopt to recieve there copy? I wish everyone else good luck.


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[jad1097]

Cool! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[chipbgt]

I got mine today, loaded it up and waiting to find some drivers so i can run it full time http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif when is the release date?

[Amarok]

The official release for the retail version is the 17th of Feb. The OEM version release was the 24 of Jan.

sheesh king typo strikes again......

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[jad1097]

What version does it say 5.00.2195?
You are going to love it.

That was quick!

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[chipbgt]

Im not in it right now, but it call all nice and shrink wrapped and in the retail box. so whatever version the retail is, thats what we got.

[Fuzzy Z]

What is it like? Big differneces?

[tjl123]

Hey how did you guys get your win 2000
where did you winit at?

[wyvrn]

You can win it at Microsofts web site for filling out a very short survey and giving personal information. I forgot the url sorry, but you should be able to find it with a search. Well, my co-worker got one but I did not, oh well 1/2 aint bad.

[jman01pa]

Here you go!
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/sneakpreview/

This should let you enter. OOps! It ended Feb 4th. At least you can see all the lucky people who one. They are all listed including myself. I have to wait til this weekend to load it up. Wish me well.


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[CujoRbd]

congrats to jman for receiving his copy...

and to TJ, you haven't got yours yet because (like me) you probably won in the third round of the contest... jman had one in the first and he is just now receiving his, so you may have awhile to wait yet...


anywayz...

darn typing errors...


anywayz...



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[seti]

Tisk Tisk

I would sujest you delete all that CujoRbd.

[jad1097]

CujoRbd
E-mail me as I may also like to do that.


Socalgal already deleted it.



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[Brangwen]

I received my free Win2K today (02/11/00). I'm going to install this weekend. I'll let you all know how it goes, especially regarding compatibility issues!

Brangwen

[jad1097]

Thanks for nothing!

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[pickel]

So did the IDES of March.........
Just got my copy of "P C World" march issue
Read all about it. Maybe Millenium for me.
Now that I feel like I have Win 98 halfway figured out and working OK. If it ain't broke don't fix it. Oh, the peace of mind...

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[Underclocked]

If anyone won one of those and really doesn't want to mess with it, I'm offering $100 for a sealed legit W2K Pro. I've already missed three deals at that price or less and tried hard (maybe too hard http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif ) to win one.

[Bonehead]

Don't cheere too early kids cause you will notice that still many games won't run on it (especially D3D games) just like with NT4. Though Win2000 will make some parts of your system perform better (not on all fronts), +100 on cpu (not fpu) benchmark and +100 with Memory fpu benchmark under Sisoft Sandra (with PIII @ 558)

Some usefull links:

http://www.3dwin2000.de/ http://www.ntcompatible.cjb.net/

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[Brangwen]

Thanks for your suggestions, links, etcetera. I may be posting for advice this weekend using my wife's machine. Wish me luck. I'm goin' in . . .

Sir Brangwen

ps: The Ides of March . . . Timing is everything? Hope not always!


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[FlameOut]

my buddy got his copy (2 days ago I think?), and was to scared to install it till he hears some reviews, and although he didn't actually give me his copy, I figured I'd try it out for him on my computer.

It is nice, but I can't see me paying $217 for it, and I can't get my BellAtlantic DSL account to work on it (I'm glad I can still boot into 98).

It is nice if you have networked computers in your house that share the internet. That was very simple to set up.

I called BellAtlantic about the DSL problem and they know nothing at all about their software working with Win2000. I think the guy thought I was lying when I told him I was running it.

The bellatl software says I don't have a network card installed,a nd I have 2 of them!
Anyone have any ideas on how I might get it working?

[SalaTar]

2000 is cool but as you see I ran the betas, Rc1,2,3's and went back to NT4 serv.pack 6 on my server..give it a year or 2 till the new one comes out and I may try it again...

Until then We'll give away Linux box's.


SalaTar
Admin at www.mrcs.net (http://www.mrcs.net)

[jman01pa]

I loaded my Windows 2000 today and the install was easy and quick. All my hardware was detected except for the network card and the NT-4.0 drivers worked on it. Configuring the internet was cake too. I have my Hp 7200e cd burner on this system and am curious if the NT drivers will work here. Anyone know? Should NT 4.0 drivers work on most hardware in win 2000?

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[Underclocked]

I have had very little luck with NT4 drivers in 2K. Burners and scanners are special problems. You may get your burner going by using the information in several of the threads here and in Operating Systems.

[ytay]

i have been running the final version since Dec. 18th,99 and the only thing it didnt recognie was my HP3300 scanner, it says the proper driver are installed but the HP software is incompatible http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

[BBA]

jman01pa


What HP drivers are you talking about?

If you mean the PiiX4 ide driver, that is from Intel and W2K has better ones built in...don't screw with it, it will all work, just load EasyCD Creator 4 and be happy ( DirectCD does not work with W2K though )

If you are talking about the Adaptec ASPI driver, don't worry with that either.

[jman01pa]

Thanks BBA!

Thats a big relief to me since my primary use of my second system is for burning and downloading! I already know dowloading works excellent.

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