Re: Starting Windows 2000 hangs on new install.
From: Kevin Lawton (kepla_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 04/24/04
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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 10:08:17 +0000 (UTC)
DL <> wrote:
| Sorry missed the line about mobo;
No worries, mate, it was early on in the thread. ;-)
| With mobo switches on auto, Boots/Runs OK with Duran. - yes?
Oh yes, yes, yes. I can even play around with the FSB and multiplier
switches and overclock the Duron 650 up to 897 MHz and it still works fine.
Solid processor, that Duron.
| Matrox drivers installed for win2k? - yes?
Well, no they weren't. Matrox cards do the standard VESA modes properly so
they are fine with Windows 'generic VGA card' drivers. I have now tried
installing the latest Matrox drivers and guess what ? - no change.
| Change the cpu, restart, enter the bios and check settings, eg cpu.
I've tried this, with the settings on auto and with the settings forcing the
correct FSB and multiplier. I've even tried underclocking the XP2400 a bit.
Still no change - works fine in Windows Me and hangs at Windows 2000
startup.
| If OK reboot from win2k installation disk ( you may have to enable
| boot from cd in bios) and repair.
Tried this and of course the repair installation hangs after the 'Starting
Windows' progress bar again. Had to swap back to the Duron 650 to get that
to finish again.
| Other than that you appear to have covered everything.
That's what I thought, but there is still a problem. The way things are
going I might be better off using this PC as landfill and 'cover everything'
with concrete !
| Good luck
I think I need more than luck - I need a miracle. At least, I could do with
some decent diagnostics out of Windows 2000. I don't really want to have to
spend the rest of my life trying to edit video on a Duron 650.
Thanks for the help.
Kevin.
| "Kevin Lawton" <> wrote in message
| news:c61h6v$r0f$1@titan.btinternet.com...
|| Sorry- I though that was known. The motherboard is a Gigabyte
|| GA-7VRXP (I have tried two samples) Rev1.1, as staed in my original
|| post which is still at the foot of this thread. Originally I left
|| the m/board switches for FSB and multiplier in the 'auto' setting,
|| as was the memory bus clock. Since then I've tried slowing things
|| down from 133 MHz to 100 MHz on the FSB (effectively 266 -> 200 due
|| to DDR), and from 166 MHz to 133 MHz then 100 MHz on the memory bus
|| clock (DDR = 333 -> 266 -> 200). Same result every time - problem
|| persists.
|| M/board BIOS is 'F12', which is the latest on the Gigabyte web site.
|| Not too sure what else I can adjust without doing damage.
|| Kevin.
||
|| DL <> wrote:
||| If I understand correctly;
||| Using Duran, win2k installed and booted correctly
||| With XP2400 it wouldnt boot ( Win98 is I believe slightly more
||| hardware 'fault' tolerant)
||| If this is the case might suggest a mobo setting, with this cpu, or
||| possibly bios update required.
||| What is the mobo?
|||
||| "Kevin Lawton" <kepla@btinternet.com> wrote in message
||| news:c60fh8$dc7$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
|||| I'm on about as mininal as the system can go anyway, the only card
|||| being the Matrix G400 graphics card.
|||| I've tried swapping every system component individually for a
|||| replacement - except for the processor (expensive !). The same
|||| result every time - the system hangs when the 'Starting Windows'
|||| progress bar completes. With a fresh install, this is as far as I
|||| can get - the install
|||| hasn't completed sufficiently to give me any 'recovery' options.
|||| I did try swapping out the XP2400 processor for an old Duron 650 -
|||| and it worked fine ! Problem with that is that the Duron 650
|||| doesn't give enough performance for the video editing I'm planning
|||| to do.
|||| After the system was fully working with the Duron 650 I went back
|||| to the XP2400 and the problem re-emerged just the same. I also
|||| tried installing Windows Me and that runs on the XP2400 fine, so
|||| I'm not inclined to blame the processor.
|||| Could there be something which Windows 2000 is doing with the
|||| XP2400 which doesn't happen with a different processor or op
|||| system ?
|||| I'm really confused with this - any help gratefully appreciated.
|||| Kevin.
||||
|||| DL <dl@spoofmail.com> wrote:
||||| Tried installing to min sys, Monitor, KeyB, mouse,cd - no cards,
||||| extra hardware
||||| and or with a single DDR?
|||||
||||| "Kevin Lawton" <kepla@btinternet.com> wrote in message
||||| news:15bf201c41b60$b9c8a000$a601280a@phx.gbl...
|||||| I've just installed Windows 2000 onto a new machine and it
|||||| hangs indefinitely when the 'Starting Windows' progress bar
|||||| completes. No error messages or re-boots - it just hangs.
|||||| Machine spec:
|||||| AMD XP2400 processor,
|||||| Gigabyte GA-7VRXP m/board,
|||||| 2 x 256 Mb DDR PC2700 RAM,
|||||| 330w PSU,
|||||| Seagate 60 Gb HDD.
|||||| The m/board, memory and HDD have been swapped-out with no
|||||| change in result. The system can boot into DOS, from either
|||||| floppy or HD fine.
|||||| I think I might have seen similar problems reported before,
|||||| but don't recall seeing any solution.
|||||| Please help.
|||||| Regards,
|||||| Kevin.
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