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by grogues

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Does anybody know why i seem unable to load w2000 pro on my computer.
Everything goes fine until i get past the 2nd reboot in the checking hardware bar phase and about halfway through it stops moving then the screen goes black with the cursor in the top left corner.
All my hardware is generic unexotic stuff(seagate 10gb h'drive, cd-rom and floppy) so i think the only thing could be the msi k7t pro 2-a motherboard.
Tried everything to no avail. Updated all the drivers etc,etc.

Any clues would be greatly appreciated.

p.s. Tried 2 different w2000 pro disks and 1 w2000 server. Have loaded nt4.0 with no problems.

Cheers.
Grogues

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by cg it

huum I dont' believe it's the MSI K7T 266 Pro 2 motherboard as my computer has the same board [I've got the RU though] and I'm running W2K.
Question: how did you setup the hard drive before install? or did you let Windows do it? If you let windowsdo it [disable the boot sector write protection in the BIOS] it may be that it's tried to write to the boot sector and with the BIOS protection enabled, it can't, [though you would see a BIOS popup message indicating a boot sector write attempt.]
Try setting up your HDD first [with FAT32] and then load W2K keeping the FAT32 file system. After install, you can use the convert c:/FS:NTFS command to make the file system NTFS. [

by bndp

Have you checked the HCL for your hardware? Are you doing a fresh install? Have you formatted your partition to FAT first? Have you ever had another operating system on it? Try looking into these things.. Hope this works. Brandi

by pocono

Try running the checkupgrade option...also, check the Hardware Compatability List on microsoft's website...you could have an incompatability problem...Peace...

by pocono

Also, if you are upgrading from NT4, you will need Service pack 4 installed....hope this helps...

by bohicam1

I've had a similar problem with my board. Go into the bios (can't remember where) and disable the midi port, it usually takes IRQ 10, it may be conflicting with another hardware device.
Good luck!

Mike

by tyson44

had the same problem... go into the 2000 cd and make the boot disks.. and load from there.. it should get u going..

by fdlockridge

I believe this is a video problem. I will explain...During the second reboot during the install, windows checks/configure your hardware with the OS. The screen flickers and then stops responding? If this is correct change video cards and try again.

by john.m1

I had the same thing and boy did it make me mad,,, the eventual answer was the Cheap memory that i was using (it was new and it is now functioning in a non-2000-non-ntfs system)

i had this on 3 systems and seemed to cure it when i upped the ram from 128 to 256 but believe me the problem only was 'Cured' when i bought in some 'Kingston' memory the answer is use branded ram everytime, i am still not sure if it was W2000 or NTFS to blame but ram is your answer.

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