I discovered the other day I needed to install Windows 2000 in order to be able to use the firewire and digital video capabilities of my camcorder. So I did. Only then did I discover that the network card in the machine wasn't supported by the normal drivers. Nor was it supported by any of the three different close-to-right Intel drivers I tried, except one which allowed a few K to be transferred on any connection before dying. So I replaced the network card with one I ripped out of another machine. This network card was also unsupported. So I gutted another machine, and was surprised to find that a Realtek 8019 was supported. Still, I hated Win2K 12 times before it was even installed, and another 18 before I'd got the drivers to work. Also, I recommend that anyone installing Win2K backup their files and do a from-scratch install rather than letting it do an upgrade. I'm pretty sure I would have only hated it 20 times if I'd done that. On the up side, the firewire connection does work, though bizarrely it won't capture images as smaller than 640x480. I suppose any good software will handle it.
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