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Thanks, Zord.
What a coincidence ! Oddly enough, once this is working okay, this machine
will be having a Matrox Rainbow Runner installed alongside the G400 for
doing video capture. I like Matrox cards - usually no issues. Also, like
yourself, I have Win2K running on a range of machines from a Pentium MMX 200
upwards.
Didn't know anything about the 'F6' thing. I usually just let Win2K start
off with its default drivers on a 'minimal build' and then start adding
extra bits and drivers once something is working.
The 60 Gb Seagate is the only HD in the system at the moment, conected to
the primary 'ordinary' IDE channel (I didn't want to complicate things yet).
The promise RAID channels are 'switched off' in the BIOS, though I've tried
that setting different ways (no change). I've also tried having sound, LAN
and USB switched of in the BIOS to keep it all as simple as possible. Once
Win2K is up and running it is easy enough to enable things one-at-a-time
later.
I hadn't previosly considered a potentially faulty processor. It works okay
in DOS, but of course that is real mode only. I'd like to exhaust all other
options before going to the expense of buying a replacement for it.
Following the processor train of thought, maybe I could download a free copy
of a different op system which uses protected mode and try that ? A recent
distro of Linux, like RedHat or Mandrake, springs to mind. What do you
think - any other ideas ?
Thanks for your help,
Kevin.
Alien Zord <> wrote:
| "Kevin Lawton" <> wrote in message
| news:c4rhno$l0f$2@sparta.btinternet.com...
|| Please, can somebody help me with this ?
|| Gigabyte GA-7VRXP + AMD XP2400 + 2 x 256 Mb DDR2700.
|| The above runs various versions of DOS, from either floppy or hard
|| drive (60 Gb Seagate), fine - no problem at all.
|| If I try to install Windows 2000 it all seems to be going well until
|| I get to the point where it should be 'Starting to run Windows for
|| the first time' - and it just hangs - forever
🙂
|| I have tried building a fresh install on a Duron 1200 and then
|| swapping the hard drive over - same problem: hangs after the
|| 'starting Windows' progress stripe has completed.
|| I've tried swapping both memory and motherboard (both GA-7VRXP
|| Rev1.1) and still the same problem.
|| This is driving me crazy !
|| Does anyone have any ideas on what I should try next ?
|| Any help would be very gratefully appreciated.
||
||
| I have a dedicated audio and video capture machine here based on
| Shuttle AK38N mobo, KT333 chipset, same as your VRXP, Matrox G400
| Marvel (does mjpeg hardware compression, i.e. easy to edit, and
| removes Macrovision protection from VHS tapes), XP 2600+ and 512MB
| RAM. Runs Win2k perfectly. I also do 200+ Win2k installs annually
| (industrial PCs) and succeeded in getting it to run on anything from
| P233 notebook upwards.
|
| 1) No need to use FDISK to "prep" a drive for NT class OS
| installation, use the built-in facility
|
| 2) ntldr starts loading the OS in 16 bit 'real' mode indicated by the
| white bar running left to right. At that point it switches to 32 bit
| 'protected' mode and starts loading 32 bit drivers (blue bar running
| across). It seems that your system halts at that point. How is your
| HDD connected? Primary, secondary IDE, Promise port? If Promise port,
| is the drive configured correctly as a single drive RAID array? And
| did you hit F6 and had the appropriate drivers prepared on a floppy
| at the beginning of install?
|
| 3) Only other option is that your processor is faulty, halts when
| switching to 'protected'. mode.
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