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need help with device drivers and APIs
Hi all, I am trying to recycle an old laptop into a useful PIM device, but I am having trouble with drivers and APIs. The hardware won't support 2000 or XP so I am left with 98, ME or NT4. NT4 runs on the hardware, but it is slow and is missing APIs needed by some of the modern PIM software. 98SE doesn't recognize the video controller but I have managed [with problems] to use an old 3.11 vga driver. ME doesn't recognize either the disk or video controllers ... as with 98 I can get it to use the 3.11 vga driver, but disk ops run in dos compatibility mode. [One has to wonder why progressively newer operating systems support progressively fewer existing devices. I know support is a popularity contest, but judging from a survey of anguished postings in the newsgroups, the devices in question are found in many laptops which, but for lack of device support, could run the new OSes quite acceptably.] So questions: Is it possible to use NT drivers in ME? And if so, how can I identify which NT files are necessary and convince ME to use them? If it is not possible to use NT drivers in ME, is there some better source for applying some of the newer APIs to NT4 other than progressively installing new IE, Outlook, Media Player, DirectX, etc. versions until the problem software works? Thanks for any advice, George -- for email reply remove "/" from address |
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