Will my premier 6.0 work wt Windows 2000 sp4?

Question

I'm using lotsa old stuff. Yeah i know i'm a cheap looser...whatever.
I had been using Windows 2000 sp2 wt premier 6.0 for several years wt a Pinnacle video capture card and an EVGA video display card. Then everything stopped working and some techie made me do a complete recovery and everything but it turned out it was just my EVGA card that died.
So now I got a new low level EVGA card and everythings semi-ok except now premier 6.0 and windows media player won't work (freezes up). The only way I can solve this is to move my hardware acceleration slider  down by one notch (the setting wheres its like, "use this notch you you got mouse pointer problems etc). So it solves my premier 6.0 & WMP problems but now I'm not getting full hardware acceleration on a brand new graphics card. EVGA tells me i need to upgrade my windows 2000 from service pack 2 to service pack 4. Sooooo, my question is:
If I upgrade my windows 2000 from sp2 to sp4 will this cause any problem in the functionality of my Premier 6.0?
PS: i'm using FAT32 file system.
Thank you thank you thank you in advance,
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Answer 1

I would guess that SP4 won't be any problem, however it will very likely not address your need to turn Hardware Acceleration down. That is very likely an issue with your newer card and your older software.It's common to have to do this, even with newer hardware and software. It's often a driver issue, so you might have luck getting the latest driver for your card - start at the mfgr's Web site.
Another guess is that because both Pr6 and your version of WMP used DirectShow you have that issue. With about PrPro1 (I think), Adobe moved from using DirectShow to their own display engine. Not sure when WMP changed. It could be that SP4 will have an updated DirectShow, but I doubt that it'll make much difference - regardless stil get the latest video driver for your card.
Now I could be confusing NT4 and Win2K, but was SP4 the last Service Pack? For some reason, I thought that I had SP5. Iike I said, I am probably confusing NT4 with Win2K.
I would also update my Audio card/chips driver, while I was at it. SP's and updates can render Audio and Video drivers obsolete in a heartbeat.
Though you have a Restore Point (you used it when the vid-card died), I'd do another, just before you go to SP4. If all works fine, I'd do another, before updating the Audio and Video drivers - never hurts to play safe.
Last comment: do not recall with which version of Windows the Convert utility was introduced - may have been XP. I'd look into using Convert, if possible, to change from FAT-32 to NTSF. Unlike re-formatting, Convert will do the conversion and leave your data untouched. Check that out. It's used from a CMD line prompt string, so check the help files for the exact syntax of your version, if you have it. Just typing "convert/?" from a CMD prompt should bring it up - note the quotation marks are just to show what the string would be - do not use the quotation marks.
Good luck, and please report how it goes. Sometimes with older versions of programs, it's hard to find info. However, I had to research Pr6.5 and was amazed at all of the info I could locate. There are still a lot of reviews on the Internet. Unfortunately for me, I really was looking how Pr6.5 files worked in PrPro2.0 and no one had ever tested that. By reading between the lines on some Adobe white papers, I got a fair idea, but had to try it to know. BTW - they work fine and these were Mac Pr6.5 to PC PrPro2.0. Perfect on Import, after I assigned the proper file extension to the Mac Project files.
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