David: Count me in the unlucky 25%!
W2K pro installed just fine, didn't find anything it didn't like except all my printers, my video card, and my network card (but in fairness it said it would provide drivers for some of them although I know these are temporary drivers), updated my system, rebooted the computer, went into the startup screen and then...BSOD! "Your ACPI-compliant BIOS is not ACPI compliant. Press F7 during your text mode install, and the installer will silently install Windows 2000 in non-ACPI mode." When do you press F7? Why, right at the intuitive part, where it asks you if you have diskettes containing drivers for any other devices. Since the response to pressing F7 is "silence", you get to go through the entire forty-minute install again (after restoring your NT 4.0 partition first) before you find out if it worked.
Meanwhile, on the ASUS website, I learned that all I need to do to fix my motherboard is to unsolder one little surface-mount resistor and move it to another pair of holes. Microsoft didn't include a soldering iron in the box, but fortunately I've got a few anyway. Meanwhile, I'm off to try the F7 adventure right now.
I mean to tell you, I was and remain extraordinarily P.O.'d. Talk about amateur hour.
--QS |
