Win2K Professional giving all new BSOD!!!

[Pollux]

I tried installing Win2K Professional and i had an error. i was trying to install it as another OS instead of upgrading. Everything goes fine until i reboot and i choose Win 2000 Pro from the boot menu. it takes me to a setup screen where it loads and says Starting Windows 2000. However it then goes to a blue screen of death that says Inaccesible_Boot_Device!?!? I'd love insight.

-Abit BP-6 with dual cel 400's@594
-20.4 UATA HDD partitioned into two 10 gigs - i'm trying to install win2k on the D: partition
-Creative Labs Riva TNT2 Ultra
-Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! Platinum
-Creative Labs PC-DVD with dxr3
-Philips CD-RW 404
-Netgear 10/100 NIC


thanks to anybody who could help!
-pollux

[Chaostician]

Umm... I hate say this but I had the same problem with a "Beta" version. Try Fdisk/MBR and reboot, if that fails then Debug, Fdisk, Format and reinstall. Thats what I ended up doing... BTW-It works great if you use the NTFS instead of Fat32.

-My $.02, good luck.

[Pollux]

thanks for the reply Chaostician, but i'm not quite sure what you mean.

what do you mean Fdisk/MBR?
i know of Fdisk, and i have two partitions, one set to active.

And when you say format and reinstall do you mean reformat the entire hard drive because i'd hate to have to reinstall everything on win 98. i wanted to the dual boot going.

i know that the second partition (D http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif that i'm trying to install to is FAT32, is there anyway to change this?
thanks again
-pollux

[Mntsnow]

Are you trying to use a ATA66 controller? If so you will need to experiment with the different bios and drivers that the controller has avaliable. It took me half a day to get win2K rc2 to boot from the ATA66 controller. I ended up using the 1.21 bios and the 1.20 drivers both are avaliable from www.bp6.com (http://www.bp6.com) (sorry for going out on a limb here but you didnt give us any system configuration spec other than a BP6 and 20 gig drive so I a$$umed that you are using the 66 controller)

Mntsnow

[Chaostician]

Sorry for being a little vauge there...

Try and boot to disk w/ FDisk on it. At the prompt type "Fdisk/mbr" That will remove the MasterBootRecord (the recod of how to boot into an OS) and reboot. It should boot into windows; then try the install again.

I had no luck getting it to Dual Boot w/ Win98 on 2 partitions, and had to Debug my hard drive and start from scratch.

If the Fdisk/mbr does not work you will have to run a debug script (Kills partitions) and re-Fdisk, format and install clean with Win98 then upgrade to Win2k.

If anyone else has had exp. w/ this prob please add your $0.2 because mine is more like $0.01 and pocket lint.

-Chaostician

[reddog4629]

Chaostician-How to/what's this debug script u talk about that kills partitions? Sounds like something I need to use on an old IBM HD that has C: all screwed up but can access d,e, and f partitions in W95.

[This message has been edited by reddog4629 (edited 01-18-2000).]

[psyklone]

i have a pretty good library of different debug scripts, all tried, tested, and some edited by me (and then retested of course! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif) if you're interested you can mail me nojive@usa.net

[Pollux]

MntSnow!!!
Thanks a bundle, i did exactly what you said, and as of right now i'm typing on Win2k. A bunch of my drivers don't work, but i didn't expect them too.

HOWEVER-
now another problem. i get to the dual boot option screen and i choose windows 98. i see it go through the boot stuff (loading McAfee and whatever) and right as it would enter windows 98 it restarts. arghhh. I know that all of the info is still there because i can access that partition from my win2k os. i really would love to solve this. any guesses? thanks again mntsnow!
-pollux

[Mntsnow]

Well I would guess that your rebooting problem with Win98 is a instablity problem with your overclocking. I have found that booting Win98 with several "TSR" programs is harder on the cpu and ram than booting NT (win2K in this application). I would first suggest seeing if you can boot into Win98 when you are not clocked...If you can just to make sure you dont have files that are messed up run a SFC and then start working up the clocking again http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Mntsnow

[Pollux]

What is an SFC?
thanks again for the help
-pollux

[Pollux]

arghhhh... no dice mntsnow. reset everything to default factory settings and still no boot into win98. I'm also having a lot of problems with installing software on win2k. Quake 3 won't load as well as some other programs. thanks for your continued assistance.
-pollux

[Mntsnow]

Sorry...SFC (system file checker) you just type SFC in the "run" line (click on start button...click on RUN...Type SFC and hit enter http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif ) It will take a few minutes to run thru all the system files and if it finds any missing, corrupt or newer versions it will give you the option of either restoring the original, replace or ignore.

Mntsnow

[Pollux]

oh geez...
i re-fdisked... reformatted and completely reinstalled win98. Everything's working great. i get all the drivers reinstalled and i'm rebooting after doing this and i see the first win98 screen and then BLAM! restart. over and over again

so i get into win98 through safe mode. do sfc and find that setupx.dll is wrong. i replace it, restart and once again nothing. i re-enter safe mode, run sfc and this time nothing is wrong. so here i am, completely starting over and it won't let me get into win98 except in safe mode. any suggestions? thanks
-pollux

[Mntsnow]

Possablity that you might have a bad stick of memory? Is it rebooting even when running at the stock cpu speed?

Mntsnow

[Pollux]

It is rebooting even when i have it at the stock speed. I'll give the ram a try, but it did this when i had win2k on it as well. it would boot to win2k, but not to 98. darnit
-pollux http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

[Pollux]

ok, another advancement. if i do start->run->msconfig->diagnostic startup and then run step by step confirmation and don't process the autoexec.bat file the computer starts?!?! i'm no expert so i'm just trying to provide all of you experts with all the data i can http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
-pollux

[Mntsnow]

Go in to the dos mode and then type "EDIT" (with out the "" marks) and then navigate to the the file and see what is in the file. Usually a win9x autoexec.bat will be empty. (wait I see you have the SB platinum so it might be loading the DOS drivers and such) If you can handle it rename your autoexec.bat and then create a new one that is totally empty and try rebooting and see if you can get into windows..(you will lose your DOS sound support at this moment but can workaround that if this solves your problem)

Mntsnow

[Pollux]

Alright, i renamed my autoexec.bat and created a new one with nothing in it and set the start up to normal and nothing, same thing if i have the startup set to diagnostic. the only way i've gotten it to start is by setting it to diagnostic startup (config, autoexec) and skipping the autoexec. Even when i rename the autoexec.bat to autoexecbackup.bat and create a new empty autoexec.bat, the commands from the original autoexec are once again in the new supposedly empty file. Thanks a bundle for your continued help mntsnow!
-pollux

[Mntsnow]

Well at this point I would suggest checking to see what is loading in the Config.sys file as something from their must be loading http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif (normally it's not this rough to load win98!

Mntsnow

[Pollux]

Mntsnow... once again you were right. I went through and enabled the config.sys and autoexec.bat line by line until it worked. everything worked up until the last line of the config.sys- "DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE"

i enabled all of the other startup files (system.ini,win.ini,startup group items) and it boots fine. now i just have to fix this problem (cross my fingers). thanks a bundle again
-pollux

[Mntsnow]

Glad to be of help! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Mntsnow