Updated Windows 2000 Installation Notes

Here are a few things that you will want to know before installing the NT driver for the WavePRO and Wave/4 hardware.

*For some reason Windows 2000 does not think that the Wave PRO is a plug and play device (which it most certainly is!). To work around this, you will need to make a change within your system's BIOS. The BIOS is usually entered by holding down the Delete (DEL) key upon startup. You may need to refer to your motherboard or computer manual for further instructions if you are not familiar with the BIOS. Once in your BIOS, go to your ‘PnP/PCI’ Setup, and set ‘Plug and Play OS Installed’ to NO.

*Due to how Windows 2000 addresses a specific Windows NT 4.0-compatible driver callback that our driver uses, this driver will only load on PC's configured as 'Standard PC' in Windows 2000. The only thing that should change when doing this on a single processor PC is how the power management works and how the IRQs are initially assigned. 

When configured as 'Standard PC' in a dual processor computer, you will only be utilizing a single processor. This is why this driver does not support dual processor PC's under 2000, but does under Windows NT 4.0.

To change your compute type to 'Standard PC', you will need to go to:

-the Windows 'Start' menu-> 'Settings'-> 'Control Panel', and then double-click 'System' button.

-click the 'Hardware' tab, and then click the 'Device Manager' tab.

-open up the device listing 'Computer', and double-click on the device icon.

-click the 'Driver' tab, and choose 'Update Driver'.

-click the 'next' button to start the upgrade wizard.

-click the radio button 'show all hardware of this device class' and select 'Standard PC'.

-click next.

-the hardware wizard should now complete and ask you to reboot.

-next time Windows loads, your PC should be configured as 'Standard PC'.

Note: When changing your device type, Windows might re-detect some or all of your hardware and reinstall it. Before changing your computer type to Standard PC we strongly recommend having all of your necessary driver files available.