DuhWhat
08-23-2000, 09:36 AM
Overview: Hard drive and/or Win2K problems
OK... this is what I have...
Athlon T-Bird 900Mhz
Asus A7V without audio but with ATA/100
512 MB of 133Mhz memory (2x256) from Mushkin
Maxtor ATA/100 30.7GB, 7200 RPM
ATI Expert 2000, 32MB, AGP
Intel NIC 10/100
CL SB128, CL 52X CD ROM, NEC 100MB zip
Windows 2000 with SP1
300W PS - (I think Athlon approved I forget)
I had this machine up and running just fine after flashing the bios back to version 1.002 and even had the drive working on ATA/100. The machine was moved and through a series of misfortunate events, I had to reinstall the OS. Ever since then the machine periodly crashes (at least once a day.) In the process it destroys the user profile.
I don't know if I should have this in a software forum, cause I get the feeling that is the problem. Every time the machine crashes it is a problem with the ATAPI.sys file. I've noticed from the logs that there is a "Task Scheduler Service" that starts within 2 minutes prior to the ATAPI crash, but I can't find anything in the Scheduled Tasks window that shows anything running.
I've tried dozens of things including moving the hard drive from PRIMARY ATA/100 to PRIMARY ATA/66. (The CD-ROM and zip are on SECONDARY ATA/66.) The only things I haven't tried are installing the VIA Busmastering and IDE controllers. Right now I am waiting for the system to finish CHKDSK and then I am going to try that.
Any suggestions? If this doesn't work I am tempted to put NT on the machine and try again. I just don't want to have to re-partition and reformat the drive and reinstall all the software again. The main problem seems to be that some mysterious process runs which causes problems with the hard drive. After crashing and rebooting, profiles are lost, performance is slower than a P5-100 and in general just totally sucks. I have a Athlon 550 running Win2K on a Gigabyte board which is substaintially faster (and more stable) than this machine.
Any help would be appreciated. If nothing else, anyone having problems with Win2K and Asus A7V can contact me. I've read enough messages the past week that I'm seeing them in my sleep. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
Thanks....
OK... this is what I have...
Athlon T-Bird 900Mhz
Asus A7V without audio but with ATA/100
512 MB of 133Mhz memory (2x256) from Mushkin
Maxtor ATA/100 30.7GB, 7200 RPM
ATI Expert 2000, 32MB, AGP
Intel NIC 10/100
CL SB128, CL 52X CD ROM, NEC 100MB zip
Windows 2000 with SP1
300W PS - (I think Athlon approved I forget)
I had this machine up and running just fine after flashing the bios back to version 1.002 and even had the drive working on ATA/100. The machine was moved and through a series of misfortunate events, I had to reinstall the OS. Ever since then the machine periodly crashes (at least once a day.) In the process it destroys the user profile.
I don't know if I should have this in a software forum, cause I get the feeling that is the problem. Every time the machine crashes it is a problem with the ATAPI.sys file. I've noticed from the logs that there is a "Task Scheduler Service" that starts within 2 minutes prior to the ATAPI crash, but I can't find anything in the Scheduled Tasks window that shows anything running.
I've tried dozens of things including moving the hard drive from PRIMARY ATA/100 to PRIMARY ATA/66. (The CD-ROM and zip are on SECONDARY ATA/66.) The only things I haven't tried are installing the VIA Busmastering and IDE controllers. Right now I am waiting for the system to finish CHKDSK and then I am going to try that.
Any suggestions? If this doesn't work I am tempted to put NT on the machine and try again. I just don't want to have to re-partition and reformat the drive and reinstall all the software again. The main problem seems to be that some mysterious process runs which causes problems with the hard drive. After crashing and rebooting, profiles are lost, performance is slower than a P5-100 and in general just totally sucks. I have a Athlon 550 running Win2K on a Gigabyte board which is substaintially faster (and more stable) than this machine.
Any help would be appreciated. If nothing else, anyone having problems with Win2K and Asus A7V can contact me. I've read enough messages the past week that I'm seeing them in my sleep. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
Thanks....