Windows 2000 Update Services

[Guest]

I am a VAR and have assembled many win2000 workstations in the past. I have
two new machines on the bench, {Intel 915PCYL mainboard, intel P4-530J
Processor (3.06Ghz with HT), DDR2 512Mb Memory, 80Gb Seagate SATA Hard drive
and an ATI X300se Video PCIX) my problem is I cannot get any updates from the
windows Update site. The I.E6.0 freezes (Hangs) and will not go anywhere. I
had manually installed IE6 as initailly IE5 came with the OEM copy. It has
SP4 installed from the Windows 2000 OEM CD. I have also installed Java. If
you have any idea, because I am stumped. Both machines are doing the exact
same thing. Could it be something to do with Intel's Hyperthreading
Technology and Windows 2000 ?¿?¿? Just so you are aware, I can do pretty
much anything else on the web, download, play java, macromedia ... etc. I
would appreciate any thoughts !!!

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

Windows 2000 doesn't support HT. You should disable HT in the BIOS.

/neo

 

[Ghostrider]

I am a VAR and have assembled many win2000 workstations in the past. I have
two new machines on the bench, {Intel 915PCYL mainboard, intel P4-530J
Processor (3.06Ghz with HT), DDR2 512Mb Memory, 80Gb Seagate SATA Hard drive
and an ATI X300se Video PCIX) my problem is I cannot get any updates from the
windows Update site. The I.E6.0 freezes (Hangs) and will not go anywhere. I
had manually installed IE6 as initailly IE5 came with the OEM copy. It has
SP4 installed from the Windows 2000 OEM CD. I have also installed Java. If
you have any idea, because I am stumped. Both machines are doing the exact
same thing. Could it be something to do with Intel's Hyperthreading
Technology and Windows 2000 ?¿?¿? Just so you are aware, I can do pretty
much anything else on the web, download, play java, macromedia ... etc. I
would appreciate any thoughts !!!

Don't have an explanation and also equally uncertain of who
provided this tip, but use this URL:

https://updates.microsoft.com/

It will make Version 6 of the Windows Update engine work and
not stall.

Re: Hyperthreading - The official Microsoft line is that
Windows 2000 does ont support hyperthreading but one peek at
the performance graph in Task Manager indicates otherwise.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

its not just a microsoft thing. intel has
http://www.intel.com/support/processors/sb/CS-017343.htm.

 

[Guest]

Thank you, for your responses. I will turn off HT however I think there are
some areas of Win2000 that do support HT and do well by it. Chris