Direct X on Windows 2000

[steveo 0]

Hi All

 

does anyone have any ideas on how to reinstall direct X on windows 2000 without reinstalling the whole O/S from scratch. The reason I ask is the Direct X has become corrupted on my Win2000 computer and applications that use it now fail to work. I have tried various methods of reinstalling it to no avail. Bear in mind that Win 2000 requires a specific version of Direct X for it and that a win2000 version of direct X is not available for download.

[farphle 0]

Have you tried running the built in diags? Start-Run-dxdiag. That may give you some help.

[Cozman 0]

Try looking at http://www.win2knews.com.

I saw something like DX7 and, moreover, is an interesting place to look at...

[slkh 0]

Hi Steveo,

 

I think we can't rebuild the DirectX if it is corrupted on Windows 2000.

 

I think there is only one solution, reinstall everything from scratch again (If reinstalling Windows 2K on top of it is what you have tried before)

 

Secondly, you can do it by extracting the CAB file manually and placed them in the correct directory and apply the registry to it (Which I think is almost impossible for us to do it)

 

Thirdly, Microsoft Assistance !!

[EddiE314 0]

Well, Thirdly won't work, Microsoft Assistance? Thats an oxymoron if i ever did hear one. Just reinstall win2k overtop of itself, DirectX8 will be out in a little while so just hold tight.

[slkh 0]

Well, installing it to a new directory will definitely solve the problem clean.

 

Microsoft Assistance is virtually non-existence. Trying to call their technical support is really a joke. I seriously think that I knew much much more than the technical support who answered my phone.

[EddiE314 0]

Yeah, if you can navigate your way around: "Please perss 1 for blah blah.." there's like 500 of those things, i think you win like $1000 if you can get through the maze of button presses, and the "1" live rep. tell you that you've won.

[CyRUS64 0]

I've tried e-mailing them. All they do is refer you to a different e-mail address, then you e-mail the new e-mail address, and they just refer you back to the first.

In the end you just give up trying.

$1000 isnt enough!

[Spastic Computer Guru 0]

The best way to get assistance from MS tech support is to go to the MS Knowledge base, that is where they derive all there answers from any way.

[Etrigan 0]

http://web3.baymont.com/win2k/win2kworld/download_files/dx7w2k-retail.rar

http://web3.baymont.com/win2k/win2kworld/download_files/dx7w2k-retail.r00