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by labrat

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Customer has a Compaq and hard drive seems to have crashed. I replaced the WD 10gig HD with a WD 20gig HD (both IDE). New install of NT4 Server crashes during final stages of install. At "Set Time/Date" Same place each time. Gives BSOD with the following info

0x00090028, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x8012866e
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL***Address 8012866e has base at 80100000 ntoskrnl.exe
***GenuineIntel 6.7.3***irql:1f***SYSVER 0xf0000565

I have done hundreds of install/configs and have never seen a BSOD during install. What can this be? The only change to a formerly working system was the hard drive.

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by labrat

Sorry, I didn't find anything that helped at these sites. I feel it is some kind of IRQ or memory conflict but I can't figure out how changing the HD caused it.

by dmiles

Okay,what service pack are you installing the new drive under and does the BIOS detect the larger hard drive,try updating the BIOS
in the description beside the code you can locate the problem by last code number in line of bsod.

by labrat

No service pack--it is a fresh install of NT from a Microsoft CD. The BIOS detects the HD fine and the OS partitions and formats the drive OK during initial part of OS install. What code do you mean? I searched the Microsoft Knowledge base for 0x8012866e but it crashes my Netscape Browser (thanks Microsoft Support!).

by dmiles

I would suggest that you install WINNT service pack 4 and above this may be the problem you are facing with the system

by labrat

Thanks for your help Soulrider. Your answers didn't give me the fix but they gave me things to try. I have fixed the problem so I will give you the points since you are the only one giving me suggestions. I decided it wasn't related to the Time/Date screen but what was happening at that point in the installation--the network service was being started. Installed OS without networking fine; installed SP6a; tried to install networking and again got BSOD. AHA! Downloaded current NIC driver and installed from disk--no more problems! Again, thanks being there and tossing ideas out to me.

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