Win XP Pro

I use XP Pro and ACAD 2000 on my personal machine at home.
I haven't run into any problems. Large dwg. files,
Accurender, ArchT, Facade....no problems and very fast loads
and renderings.

machine--AMD Athalon 1.2gh, running a 266 FSB with
1 gig. of memory. 32mg Hercules Prophet video card.

Running ACAD on this system, in comparison, would be like
ACAD on a 286 and then upgrading to a Pentium 133.

XP Pro and ACAD 2000 are great together...ACAD is up and
loaded BEFORE you can release your finger, from mouse, after
the double click.

 

I am having trouble installing autocad 2000 to my computer. I am running xp pro on my system and i meet all the requirements for autocad 2000. The error that comes up when I try to install is "... wrong operating system.... only for NT, 95, 98..." I think this is weird because my friend had no problem installing autocad on his xp pro and obviously u dont either. I did a clean installation of xp pro as well, not an upgrade. Do you know what the problem is? Please help ur reply would be greatly appreciated. thank you

leechu@onid.orst.edu

 

[avhell]

I had the same problem installing win xp pro and acad2000. THe problem is that acad is not made to run on xp pro. that is the bad news. the good news is that there is an easy fix. winxp has what is known as compatibility mode. when you insert your acad2k install cd, run the compatibility wizard on the entire cd drive, then install like normal. voila. problem fixed