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by daniel.antony

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I am trying to upload Windows 2000 Advance Server on a AMD K6 II 450 Mhz Machine With 256MB RAM.
The problem is by the time it finishes the setup it give Kernel mode errors, this is not it every time I try to compelete the setup the machine gives diffrent kernel mode errors. Please guide.

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by dheupel

Without having exact error messages/codes, it is difficult to troubleshoot your issue. However, you may have a hardware device installed in the computer, that is not compatible with Windows 2K Advanced Server. You might want to inventory all the installed devices in the machine in question, and then visit the following site to check for hardware compatability:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/upgrade/compat/search/devices.asp

NOTE: There should be no spaces in the URL above.

Good luck!

by bruski2k

What kind of chipset is on your MB? Win2k doesn't work with VIA chipset.

I recently tried to install 2k Pro on a clients machine which had Super 7 MB with VIA chipset and AMD K6 II 400MHz. The setup program hung at startup of the reboot everytime.

MS has program for identifing potential hardware issues on their 2k web site. When I ran this program on above machine it identified a chipset issue, think it was USB related.

My machine has Soyo MB with SiS chipset, 500Mhz celeron and 2k works fine on it.

Looks like it's time to upgrade. Welcome to the wonderful world of MS bloatware.

by daniel.antony

well it was a via chipset. I have changed it, it just worked out fine. No hassles.

thanks to: bruski2k@yahoo.com

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