Forcing to install Win98 drivers in Win2000?

Is it possible? I have an old Toshiba laptop that I was able to install Windows 2000 on, but it can't detect the video. The drivers for it were only made up to Windows 98, and when I try to use it, 2000 refuses, saying it's not for it. Is there a way to force it to use the drivers?

>>1
nope. windows 98 drivers aren't compatible with windows 2000. forget it.

Install linux, problem solved, good luck. :(

It might not even be capable of running 2k, mine barely is...

Argh...that sucks. What about NT drivers? There are also drivers for NT4.0 and 3.5. I have tried them, but they won't detect. Is there some way they could work?

>>3
How old is yours? This one's a 120mhz with 48mb of RAM. Surprisingly, minus the display issue, it actually works very well. I'd go a step further and see if XP could even install on it but the hard drive is only 1gb.

nt drivers might work.

>>4
W2K ran really slow on my 333MHz with 128Mb of RAM.  Certainly usable though, but the 2 minute or more boot was not fun.

Get a Linux.

>>6
Disable useless services, don't use resident antiviruses, get rid of all the system tray bullshit, etc. I've ran it fine on 64 MB.

>>7
I did, before that it was worse.

>>1
Okay, there's virtually no chance of forcing Win2K to recognize and use Win98 drivers in the event that it refuses (likes yours).

The good news is that there is a better than even chance that the manufacturer of the video chipset also published a Win2K version of the driver that you can download from said maunfacturer's website.

About two years ago, my rabbi's WinMe system was fucked up.  I didn't have the disc for it so I just nuked the drive and did a clean install of Win98.  The problem was that the OEM disc for Win98 didn't have most of the drivers for his hardware which was a pre-built piece of Hewlett-Packard junk.  So I took the damn thing apart and wrote down the model numbers printed on the chips and typed them up in a search engine.

The video chip in this case turned out to be fairly common model made by IBM (easy enough), but the audio chip was some weird thing made by an outfit that forced everyone to register in order to download a driver that I had a funny feeling wasn't going to be easily located on that labyrinthian website of theirs... a bit more searching and I finally located the driver on archive site hosted in what I think was a suburb of Hong Kong.

The moral of this story is:
THE DRIVERS ARE PROBABLY OUT THERE SOMEWHERE!!

driverguide.com

username driver2
password : I forgot, but registerings easy, I think its driver tho. :/

Hmm...might not be so easy with a laptop as I'd have to take it apart. Thanks for the advice though. I appreciate it.

ya, 98 drivers won't work. the NT drivers probably will though. i doubt 2000 has the drivers built in or else it would've already and successfully automatically installed it

Why not install NT 4.0 ? I used it from 1998 to 2001. It was stable. OpenGL worked like a charm also, so I could do some fragging in quake1 and 2. Mozilla was functional also.

I am running linux now though.

>>13
NT 4.0 doesn't support USB.

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