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02-07-2005, 05:24 PM | Topic Starter |
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maddening failure to install any OS.
I'm trying to set up a new computer for my father and am having a dickens of a time with the OS install.
Here are the particulars. Motherboard - Soyo SY-P4RC350 Processor - Intel Celeron D 320, 2.4 GHz, 533 FSB, 265Kb L2 Cache Hard Drive - Western Digital 200Gb, 7200 RPM, 8 Mb Cache DVD-RW Drive - Digital Max 16x DVD Dual Drive Video Card - ATI Radeon 9100 Pro [on board] ------------ATI All in Wonder Radeon 8500DV [AGP] - this is the one I'm using. OS - Windows 2000 CD boot, CD install [later tried XP Pro to similar luck] I should also mention that he bought a cheapie case with an Austin 300W ATX power supply. I initially thought that might be the problem, so I swapped in my own Q-Max 350W power supply. No better luck there either. ----- Anyways to the problem. I use the WD bootable CD to partition the HD to the 137 GB limit the OS has until you install SP3-4. I then restart with the Win2K bootable CD. It goes through it's initial file xfer and goes to "starting windows 2000." I get the initial pages about accepting the EULA and what partition I want to install the OS on just fine. Then it starts installing files [the blue DOS screen with the yellow progress meter]. Then around the time it's copying 'digimon.dll" it starts saying the read failed. Then the read failures come hot and heavy, until I get a different blue screen with a 'DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL' error, a bunch of reference #s and an instruction to check bios, disable new hardware, etc. I've tried; changing power supply unplugging chassis fans and taking case sides off instead [to lessen power supply load] changing from AGP card video to onboard video changing IDE cables [several times] putting both DVD and HD on the same primary IDE cable. futtering with master/slave and cable select in most all iterations. swapping out my dad's DVD writer for my own Liteon 811S. Letting W2k format/partition the drive instead of the WD software. Each time, I get the same problem. Also, I used my own XP Pro installation CD instead. It would either [at around the same point in the installation process], restart the system right in the middle of file xfer, or come up with a 'xxxx file corrupt' message screen. Also, on the off chance the CDs actually both crapped out at the same time, I successfully installed both OSes on a clean HD I have in my own ASUS P4-2.4G system. I'm usually pretty good at applying the scientific method to diagnosing computer problems, but I'm out of ideas. Anyone have a direction I should go? As I write, I came up with another avenue. Perhaps I shouldn't designate that the OS will be W2K SP3-4 when the WD software partitions. Since I'm installing W2K pre-SP4, then adding on with SP4 afterwards. I'll reassemble the other PC and let you know if that works. Otherwise, I welcome all input. Thanks in advance. |
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02-07-2005, 05:43 PM | #2 |
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Have you tried putting the "clean HD" from your 2.4G system into the 'puter in question? There might be a write problem on the WD HD.
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02-07-2005, 06:07 PM | #4 |
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Tried partitioning without the SP3-4 box ticked, and got shut down even faster. After the 'ENTER' to setup W2K, it immediately goes to
** STOP" 0x00000050 (0xE105E1A0,0x00000001, 0x80469E1B,0x00000001) PAGE_DEFAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA ** Address 80469E1B base at 80400000, DateStamp 3975dfdf - ntoskrnl.exe |
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02-07-2005, 06:09 PM | #5 | |
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This HD is holding the OS I'm posting from right now. I'm asceer't that putting my good HD into that devil system will kill it too. |
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02-07-2005, 06:22 PM | #6 |
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Try swapping out your memory.
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Have you been through the bios with a fine toothed comb? Restored bios defaults for grins? |
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02-08-2005, 12:07 PM | #8 |
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Don't know if you're still having problems but it sounds like a hard drive problem to me. As Phobia suggested, try another hard drive in the PC. If it works, make sure you get a warranty replacement from WD.
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So it's down to the the MOBO, IDE interface or the memory. I've changed everything but the MOBO and memory. I've changed the power supply, HD, IDE cables, video card, CD/DVD drive. I've gone through the Bios with a fine toothed comb and everything appears kosher. I haven't done a Bios clear and reset yet, but will when I get a little more energy. One thing that was strange. First off, there is no place in the Bios to disable onboard video, but I assume that happens automatically when the AGP slot is filled. Second, when I went to the onboard video [Radeon 9200], when the errors started showing up, the video when wonky too. Just a plain blue screen with random blacked out squares. The MOBO is brand new. The memory is a brand new pair of 512MB PC-3200 DIMMs. |
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Try what Morphius said regarding the memory but I'd be surprised if the memory is the problem. |
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In course of discovering this, I took out the second DIMM, to run with just 512MB. OS installed fine. Then I put the second DIMM back in. The system kept restarting. Took both out, and put the DIMM from the second seat into the primary seat alone. OS started fine. Went to put the DIMM [originally from the primary seat] back into the secondary seat and the retaining clip popped off the MOBO into my hand. Gingerly, I replaced the retaining clip and shoved the DIMM into the seat [with authority!!!]. Now things look kosher. |
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Glad you got it resolved, those problems are frustrating.
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Sometimes if they have 4 slots you will need to populate slot 1 and slot 3 leaving 2 and 4 open. Outside of that I would say send back the mainboard, you have a bad memory slot. |
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Problem solved.......
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