I am having a problem migrating my version of Alpha Four (Version 3.0 Single User after all available patches applied) from Windows 98 2ed. to Windows 2000 Pro, a problem I believe has been expressed by others in this message board.
My version of A4 worked without problems or complaints under Windows 98 (after previous migrations from Windows 3.1 through Windows 95). I backed up my complete Windows 98 system to an external hard drive, then did a clean install of Windows 2000 Pro to my C drive. No problems there. I brought back the A4 files from the external hard drive to my C drive, and configured the necessary MS DOS shortcut to run the program under Windows 2000 Pro.
Attempting to run the program yields the following message : "LAN Error - Adapter Malfunction - Please Reboot".
I tried the suggestions outlined by other users on various threads on this board, ie. run devmgmt.msc to identify and uninstall phantom adapters, protocols etc. without success.
My questions: Has anyone solved this problem? If so, what did you do? If not, got any more suggestions, insights, recommendations, etc. In any event, I am curious as to what could be causing this problem.
As a last resort, and if I can find my original installation disks, I can try to reinstall A4 from scratch and see if Windows 2000 Pro will recognize and run the program differently.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
My version of A4 worked without problems or complaints under Windows 98 (after previous migrations from Windows 3.1 through Windows 95). I backed up my complete Windows 98 system to an external hard drive, then did a clean install of Windows 2000 Pro to my C drive. No problems there. I brought back the A4 files from the external hard drive to my C drive, and configured the necessary MS DOS shortcut to run the program under Windows 2000 Pro.
Attempting to run the program yields the following message : "LAN Error - Adapter Malfunction - Please Reboot".
I tried the suggestions outlined by other users on various threads on this board, ie. run devmgmt.msc to identify and uninstall phantom adapters, protocols etc. without success.
My questions: Has anyone solved this problem? If so, what did you do? If not, got any more suggestions, insights, recommendations, etc. In any event, I am curious as to what could be causing this problem.
As a last resort, and if I can find my original installation disks, I can try to reinstall A4 from scratch and see if Windows 2000 Pro will recognize and run the program differently.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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