TechFairie sought for Gateway E-3000/W2K advice

[DrBobby]

In an early May post, TechFairie asked about a Zip-Disk problem related to an installation of W2K on an E-3000 Gateway.

Tech Fairie: Were you ever able to install W2K successfully on a Gateway E-3000? We haven't been able to do so, even though:

(1) we have no zip disks (or other exotic devices) on these machines
(2) we have the newest BIOS
(3) we have 160 MB RAM

TechFairie or others with older Gateway boxes, I'd welcome your thoughts.

 

[tlcscousin]

You would have to do the HCL(hardware compatability list)
W2K runs differently then other OS's.W2K doed not use the BIOS for hardware. It finds the hardware for itself and uses drivers that are W2K compatible.If there is no compatible driver for a piece of hardware it wont install it.This probably explains the problem you are having one or more of you devices are not compatible so no load.
Microsoft has a site to test for W2K compatability and a list of supported devices.