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 22:44:00 +0000 (UTC)
DL <> wrote:
| I've changed mobo's and cpu's on many Win2K setups the only one I had
| trouble with was a1.3Duron, and that was an heat problem, even using
| OTT coolers - never got to the bottom of it!!
|
| When I mentioned entering the bios I meant was the new cpu being
| correctly identified
Yes - the BIOS identifies both the Duron 650 and the XP2400 correctly. In
the Windows Me installation which works with either processor (I swap HDs) I
have a few utilities which can run system identification and benchmarking -
everything shows up correctly with all of them. What I don't have is any
software to fully test out a CPU. I can identify it, burn it in and
benchmark it - but not fully test it, the whole works - all instructions,
caches, pipelines, everything. I think that this would have to be my next
step short of actually buying another XP2400 (ouch - my poor wallet). I
guess there isn't a special way you have to install Windows 2000 on an XP
processor because of the SSE instructions, is there ?
TIA
Kevin.
| "Kevin Lawton" <> wrote in message
| news:c6deah$s2r$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
|| DL <> wrote:
||| Sorry missed the line about mobo;
|| No worries, mate, it was early on in the thread. ;-)
||| With mobo switches on auto, Boots/Runs OK with Duran. - yes?
|| Oh yes, yes, yes. I can even play around with the FSB and multiplier
|| switches and overclock the Duron 650 up to 897 MHz and it still
|| works fine. Solid processor, that Duron.
||| Matrox drivers installed for win2k? - yes?
|| Well, no they weren't. Matrox cards do the standard VESA modes
|| properly so they are fine with Windows 'generic VGA card' drivers. I
|| have now tried installing the latest Matrox drivers and guess what ?
|| - no change.
||| Change the cpu, restart, enter the bios and check settings, eg cpu.
|| I've tried this, with the settings on auto and with the settings
|| forcing the correct FSB and multiplier. I've even tried
|| underclocking the XP2400 a bit. Still no change - works fine in
|| Windows Me and hangs at Windows 2000 startup.
||| If OK reboot from win2k installation disk ( you may have to enable
||| boot from cd in bios) and repair.
|| Tried this and of course the repair installation hangs after the
|| 'Starting Windows' progress bar again. Had to swap back to the Duron
|| 650 to get that to finish again.
||| Other than that you appear to have covered everything.
|| That's what I thought, but there is still a problem. The way things
|| are going I might be better off using this PC as landfill and 'cover
|| everything' with concrete !
||| Good luck
|| I think I need more than luck - I need a miracle. At least, I could
|| do with some decent diagnostics out of Windows 2000. I don't really
|| want to have to spend the rest of my life trying to edit video on a
|| Duron 650.
|| Thanks for the help.
|| Kevin.
||
||| "Kevin Lawton" <> wrote in message
||| news:c61h6v$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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