Are motherboards open to any Microsoft OS 1

[lagg]

Is it possible to load any version of windows O/S onto a motherboard. I'm using a Winfast 760GXK8MC motherboard. This says on the box designed for Xp

 

[G0AOZ]

You'll probably find you can load most operating systems, but the problem will arise when the system requests drivers for the on-board devices like video, LAN port, sound chip etc. There may or may not be suitable drivers included on the CD that will be supplied with the motherboard. If not, it's worth checking the motherboard manufacturer's website.

Hope that helps...

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[johnbullas]

Windows XP 64Bit won't like a motherboard that doesn't have a 64 processor in it, Windows 95/98 won't like lots of USB doodads.

Designed for XP means just that but it would be probably as good with Windows 2000.. below XP you might find drivers don't exist for the components on the board

The question must be asked.. can you be more specific why you ask the question????

Memory is pretty cheap now so so trying to get speed by using a lower spec OS needing less resident memory might be the reason? OR you are trying to run software written for older OS's????

I personally have an old windows 98Se Dell Latitude laptop (256mb ram, 4 gb drive, slow processor 700mhz) only for use as an interface via COM1 with a crash investigation accelerometer as the DOS software (SIMRET) will have none of this Windows compatibility mode .... unless someone knows a shed load about it .... my XP laptop(1.4 ghz w/2GB DDR2 RAM 80GB drive doesn't even have a serial port!!)

John

 

[lagg]

The reason why I asked was when I attempted to load Win 2000 on the HD, the installation crashed every time. There was no problem installing XP

 

[addy]

Could it be a corrupt copy of Win 2000 by any chance?

 

[G0AOZ]

At what point during the W2K installation did it crash?

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[maxthedork]

Did you check the Microsoft Hardware Catalog for compatibility? Not all hardware is compatible with all Microsoft operating systems.

 

[kmcferrin]

What version of Windows 2000 were you installing? SP1, SP2, SP3, or SP4? Certain hardware features were not supported in the original release of Windows 2000, but were supported via later service packs. If you don't have a Windows 2000 SP4 CD, you might try creating a Windows 2000 CD that is slipstreamed to SP4 and install from that.