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can't install Win2000

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by alex

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The other day I was trying to install Win2000 on computer with MSI m/b, 128Mb RAM, PIII 450.
Everything was going fine: I used default settings, network config, etc. But during copying process, which follows network config, system rebooted and installation restarted again.
I tried different CDs, changed BIOS to "Safe" settings. Nothing helps.

Any ideas? Anybody, please help.

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by parbo

I had a similar problem last week but with a AMd K6-2 mbd. Right after specifying the network options the system restarted the install and brought me back to supplying Name & Org, PID etc. This happened a few times until I hard booted the system.
What I usually do if i get a failure like that is load the drive on a different system (make sure to copy the I386 folder to the hdd and start the install from here)and try it in the problem system. It's PnP so it should load everything on startup. Maybe this can help to circumvent the problem. The other route is to load the bare minimum hardware in the system and see if you can load it from there, If it loads add hardware one at a time. Or try a BIOS upgrade if one is available.

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