Windows 2000 Install hangs on older IBM Netvista

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Can anyone provide any help / advice?

The situation:
#1) an older Netvista PIII, and the little sticker on the case says it was
designed for Win 2k. It was taken home from the office where they were
giving it away.
#2) The computer may have had a problem, but nobody knows. The disk drive
was reformatted before it left the building.
#3) I'm trying to install a copy of Windows 2000 Pro clean install, no
upgrade, and after the computer reboots for the second time, just as it is
booting up the Windows 2000 logo displays (right after it gives you a chance
to hit F8) the machine hangs; even the gradient blue / light blue / white
bar, which typically scrolls along the bottom, is frozen. The machine won't
respond to any keyboard commands, all I can do is power off and on.
#4) When I hit F8 and try to boot in safe mode, the computer freezes on the
"Starting Windows..." screen
#5) I replaced the hard disk and tried to install again, and got the exact
same result (not a disk drive problem)
#6) From the IBM website, I downloaded and ran the "Enhanced Diagnostics
program - bootable diskette (Version 2.0.1458)" and everything came back
clean
#7) Just for the hell of it, I downloaded from IBM website the "Intel(R)
Ultra ATA storage driver for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (version 2.2.2)", put
it on a floppy, and loaded it from the Windows 2000 setup screen after
pressing F6. It made no difference.
#8) The formatting is fat-32, but I tried it also with ntfs and it doesn't
make any difference

Any ideas on what to try? Is there an error log somewhere? Anybody seen
this before?

Thank you,

Matt


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