Well I finally decided to step up to a SCSI drive, but am having some problems installing windows 2000 with the new components, I have a A7V133a board(athlon 900), Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller, IBM 10k 18.2 ultra 160 drive. Other components include a VooDoo3 video card, sound blaster pci128 sound and a 10/100 NIC. I also have a creative 52x cd-rom and a sony 8x cd-burner.
My problem is this, I go to install windows 2000 by booting from the cd, set up starts normally, and setup does see the the SCSI drive. I then go ahead and set up a partition, format it and proceed to install. Everytime setup runs and gets stuck at the "copying files" section of set up.
First what happens is an error will come up saying windows cannot copy some file, So I tell windows to try and recopy the file, no luck. So in desperation I tell it to skip the file and continue. This happens about 4 times with abotu 4 different files and then ends up with a BSOD. Then files it has trouble copying are different each time, and the BSOD is different each time (usually memory_management or irq_not_equal_to or ptb_pointers_corrupted) so after going through this a few time I figure that the windows CD is either scratched or messed up in one way or another(looks fine and I have had no trouble with it in the past).
So I then tried to load my windows 2000 Server on the system(trying to isolate the problem). Same thing!! now I know for sure there is nothing wrong with this 2000 Server disk. I then try to load Windows 2000 Advanced server(just to see if I can get anything to load on it) same thing, trouble copying files and BSOD. I doubt all 3 disks have all gone bad on me at the same time..lol
Well at this point im grabbing at straws, and thinking it may be my cd-rom that has gone south on me. I set up the Bios to boot from the CD Burner. Same damm thing!!! With all 3 disk!!!! So I have tried 3 different OS's and 2 different CDROM drives!!
So I said what the hell and plugged up my IDE IBM drive and tried to load the old way and the same freakin thing happened. I even tried to load Linux, all it did was abort installation. I did however have the SCSI controller in through all of this and am beginning to feel the problem has to do with having the controller in the pci slot? tommorow I will pull the controller and try an IDE install and see what happens, I am pretty much just asking for advice for some different thigs I can try to get this thing to load an OS. any ideas would be appreciated!!
Oh, the boards bios is 1005a, and i have 256 megs Micron ram and a 300 watt PS, I suspect bios configuration may have somthing to do with it, but im not sure what settings would be causing the problems?? Also I am, going to attempt to install windows 98 (getting the disk tonight) just to see if that will load.
I would really like to get my new parts going, as I suspect this thig should run pretty good with the SCSI drive, any Ideas would be appreciated!
My problem is this, I go to install windows 2000 by booting from the cd, set up starts normally, and setup does see the the SCSI drive. I then go ahead and set up a partition, format it and proceed to install. Everytime setup runs and gets stuck at the "copying files" section of set up.
First what happens is an error will come up saying windows cannot copy some file, So I tell windows to try and recopy the file, no luck. So in desperation I tell it to skip the file and continue. This happens about 4 times with abotu 4 different files and then ends up with a BSOD. Then files it has trouble copying are different each time, and the BSOD is different each time (usually memory_management or irq_not_equal_to or ptb_pointers_corrupted) so after going through this a few time I figure that the windows CD is either scratched or messed up in one way or another(looks fine and I have had no trouble with it in the past).
So I then tried to load my windows 2000 Server on the system(trying to isolate the problem). Same thing!! now I know for sure there is nothing wrong with this 2000 Server disk. I then try to load Windows 2000 Advanced server(just to see if I can get anything to load on it) same thing, trouble copying files and BSOD. I doubt all 3 disks have all gone bad on me at the same time..lol
Well at this point im grabbing at straws, and thinking it may be my cd-rom that has gone south on me. I set up the Bios to boot from the CD Burner. Same damm thing!!! With all 3 disk!!!! So I have tried 3 different OS's and 2 different CDROM drives!!
So I said what the hell and plugged up my IDE IBM drive and tried to load the old way and the same freakin thing happened. I even tried to load Linux, all it did was abort installation. I did however have the SCSI controller in through all of this and am beginning to feel the problem has to do with having the controller in the pci slot? tommorow I will pull the controller and try an IDE install and see what happens, I am pretty much just asking for advice for some different thigs I can try to get this thing to load an OS. any ideas would be appreciated!!
Oh, the boards bios is 1005a, and i have 256 megs Micron ram and a 300 watt PS, I suspect bios configuration may have somthing to do with it, but im not sure what settings would be causing the problems?? Also I am, going to attempt to install windows 98 (getting the disk tonight) just to see if that will load.
I would really like to get my new parts going, as I suspect this thig should run pretty good with the SCSI drive, any Ideas would be appreciated!
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