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by ajobrien

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As a network administrator, I have installed Windows 2000 SP2 on all of our servers and workstations (a total of 84 computers). All has been fine until I installed it on my home computers. After the installation completes, I get a BSOD on startup "Inaccessable Boot Device". I can not boot into safe mode but I can reinstall Windows without any problems except that SP2 is gone. All my settings and docs. are OK. I have checked system resources, drivers, ect and can't find any reasonable explanation. Any ideas???

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by b.scott1

This happened on my box as well. Only thing I found was that I had a PCI modem that worked fine until I put SP2 in and then I got the same error. I eventually took out all but mandatory hardware (hard drive, CD-ROM) and reloaded to where everything worked fine. Then I just started adding hardware one at a time and rebooting tosee where the culprit was. Never did get an answer from Microsoft as to why SP2 would cause that and the modem manufacturer was even less help.

by maddiuex

Would help to know what type of machine you have, I know HP, has an issue and a fix, And I agree with the above. , If you have a scci drive, you may need to update your scci drivers?

Hope this helps?

by ajobrien

My computer is a PIII 550mhz w/256mb SDRAM, built by me. Someone I know told me that this happened to him also and suggested it might be caused by NAV. Once he uninstalled Norton, reinstalled SP2 he had no more problem and was able to reinstall Norton with no problems. I tried it and still crashed. Your both right. I should strip this thing down to minimum and try it again but I have just been too lazy.

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