Although this is somewhat Windows 200 related, I posted in this forum too because I have a feeling, the PCI slots/Motherboard might be related to the problem. Here's the situation:
I just built a new Athlon 1.2 system with an A7A266 Motherboard. I was downloading Service Pack 2 when it suddenly stopped, I could still interact with it but I couldn't close any windows (even with End Task), it gave a message the it was either being debugged or something else...
Had to reboot, then at the black screen when windows loads, it froze. Safe boot doesn't work either, tracked the loading procedure, freezes when it loads the config.
I then tried to reinstall, got a blue screen after booting all 4 floppies, STOP error in pci.sys, it was the newly added NIC that was hanging it.
So basically, is there some sort of issue with PCI cards with this Motherboard. How can I avoid these failures? And will an emergency repair disk help me restore the windows installation (didn't have one made)
I think without the NIC, it would be stable, but I only ran it without the NIC for a few minutes.
Thanks in advance
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I just built a new Athlon 1.2 system with an A7A266 Motherboard. I was downloading Service Pack 2 when it suddenly stopped, I could still interact with it but I couldn't close any windows (even with End Task), it gave a message the it was either being debugged or something else...
Had to reboot, then at the black screen when windows loads, it froze. Safe boot doesn't work either, tracked the loading procedure, freezes when it loads the config.
I then tried to reinstall, got a blue screen after booting all 4 floppies, STOP error in pci.sys, it was the newly added NIC that was hanging it.
So basically, is there some sort of issue with PCI cards with this Motherboard. How can I avoid these failures? And will an emergency repair disk help me restore the windows installation (didn't have one made)
I think without the NIC, it would be stable, but I only ran it without the NIC for a few minutes.
Thanks in advance
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