Re: Installation DIES

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From: David Southern (perfection97_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:36:02 -0400

Run a good hardware diagnostic on your dimmension.

I've seen them come straight from dell with bad memory and also bad hard
disks.

Either one could cause you headaches all the way through.

Don't depend on dell's tools.... they are no where near comprehensive.

If you don't have one see if someone might have an old copy of forfront
troubleshooter or the like.

Test the Memory Extensively..... More often than not I have found this to
be the route evil in any system.

Check your BIOS/CMOS settings and make sure you have the fail safes loaded.
You can tweak the system after you have it up if it's a performance issue
causeing the install to fail. Some Dell's were shipped with the
"performance" settings which will make some systems unstable.

Oh.... one more thing..... check your processor fans..... simple I know....
but you would be surprised at what a little heat will do.... 

--
David Southern [CITPG]
Carolina IT Professionals Group - Membership has it's advantages!
www.carolinaIT.org
"Alex" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1cae001c42223$2c0f3390$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello All,
> I am trying to do a clean install a SBS 2000 on a Dell
> Dimmension 4550 with a P4 2.66, two brand new and
> unformatted (except for low-level, factory formatting)
> Seagate "ultra ATA" 80 G Hard Drives.
> I reboot to my bootable media, CD Drive and it begins to
> copy the windows installation files at which point it
> dies, shuts off and does not restart, when I manually
> restart, it starts the process over and dies at random and
> increasing stages of the copying, until finally it died
> at "starting windows 2000" and it has died at that stage
> ever since.
> I took the box off the UPS thinking it might be a function
> of the UPS, and I plugged it straight into the wall (which
> is a huge risk in place where the proffesional sports
> teams are named after lightning and storms... you get the
> point).
> Anyway, has anyone ever encounterd this problem during
> install, I am about two weeks behind in my deployment.
> Thank you all for your attention.
> Alex
>

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