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From the way you describe it it seems that there's something in your system W2k is not willing to play with or at least not yet. The easiest work around is to remove anything you do not need for the setup. Just go with the bare minimum and once you're able to load it start adding parts to it untill it locks again during boot up. That of course will be the culprit. Do you have any ISA cards in the system that need to be configured for PNP. Have you set the BIOS to PNP. NT was loaded previously so most likely that is disabled. If Power management is enabled try disabling it or reverse.

Comment to answers is always greatly appreciated. Helps in supplying a solution if you what happend or if anything changed at all.
Thanks for your time Paul

I took a look at the BIOS settings and confirmed that the BIOS and ISA cards were set to PNP. Still the same result. One interesting not is that NT 4.0 installs fine. From NT 4.0 I ran the chkupgrade batch file from Professional CD and the resultsindicated that no incompatibilites existed. I am still stuck!!!

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