2000 PRO INSTALLATION ERROR

[RANDY]

WHILE UPGRADING FROM WIN 98 TO 2000 PRO THIS ERROR POPS UP:

WINNT32 caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 0187:bff8836d.
Registers:
EAX=c00300f0 CS=0187 EIP=bff8836d EFLGS=00010216
EBX=035e87e4 SS=018f ESP=035dfeac EBP=035e0024
ECX=00000003 DS=018f ESI=00000001 FS=995f
EDX=bff76859 ES=018f EDI=02003f98 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
53 56 57 8b 75 10 8b 38 33 db 85 f6 75 2d 8d b5
Stack dump:

THIS IS AN OLD COMPUTER: DELL DIMENSION 450mh PII 10G HD.

PLEASE HELP.
THANKS IN ADVANCE

 

[Dave Patrick]

Please loose the caps. IMO it's simply not worth the trouble, given that
you'll more than likely end up with an unstable OS with all the remnants/
corruption left behind from the upgrade. Best to blow it all away and go for
the clean install.

To do a clean install, either boot the CD-Rom or boot the Windows 2000 setup
disks. The set of four install disks can be created from your Win2k CD-rom;
change to the \bootdisk directory on the cd-rom and execute makeboot.exe
(from dos) or makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the prompts.

When you get to the point, delete the existing NTFS and or other partitions
found. After you delete the partition(s) abort the install, then again
restart the pc booting the CD-Rom or setup disks to avoid unexpected drive
letter assignments with your new install.

During Windows 2000 setup, at some point, will want to confirm the previous
operating system for the upgrade; at that point you'll simply insert the
qualified product install CD for it to verify. Then the install will
proceed.