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Are notebook installs 'different' for W2K setups? Lots of problems w/
installing on Dell Latitude
I've got a Latitude C600 that has always worked fine w/ it's original
W2K.
It had gotten so junked up over the years decided to WIPE it and start
fresh. Now it has been nothing but problems trying to get W2K to run
stable on it.
I can usually get the basic install to work w/ no special options for
a while seemingly flawlessly. But the problem always starts with
applying patches, updates or SP4 or with undocking or redocking it.
W/ SP4 it seems to 'lose' files - during install it will say some file
say 'foo.dll' doesn't exist and I hit retry. Still not there. But in
the install the 'foo.dl_' always exists. THis is an unrecoverable
error and occurs randomly every time I try to apply SP4 (either via
online or via a downloaded SP4).
On the other hand if I leave just the basic W2K w/o ANY patches or SPs
applied it seems pretty stable. For a while... but sooner or later,
often right after a dock or undock - it goes into an infinite loop
when booting. As soon as the OS boots and before the login screen
appears it puts up an error and says 'system is shotting down, save
data' and counts off 60 seconds (I can do nothing - I'm not even
logged in). It will do this boot up and shot down over and over
infinitely. It will not boot into safe mode or simply command prompt
and again I'm stuck having to do a re-install.
I've installed lots of W2Ks on various desktops and they've always
gone relatively smoothly. This is the first time I've ever set up a
notebook. I've downloaded the various Dell drivers and tried applying
them right after the basic W2K install (some won't catch 22 says they
can only be installed AFTER SP has been applied!).
So are there any 'best practices' or 'tricks' or 'strategies' or
'gotchas' someone might suggest when trying to setup W2K on a notebook
like the Dell Latitude C600?
thanks,
installing on Dell Latitude
I've got a Latitude C600 that has always worked fine w/ it's original
W2K.
It had gotten so junked up over the years decided to WIPE it and start
fresh. Now it has been nothing but problems trying to get W2K to run
stable on it.
I can usually get the basic install to work w/ no special options for
a while seemingly flawlessly. But the problem always starts with
applying patches, updates or SP4 or with undocking or redocking it.
W/ SP4 it seems to 'lose' files - during install it will say some file
say 'foo.dll' doesn't exist and I hit retry. Still not there. But in
the install the 'foo.dl_' always exists. THis is an unrecoverable
error and occurs randomly every time I try to apply SP4 (either via
online or via a downloaded SP4).
On the other hand if I leave just the basic W2K w/o ANY patches or SPs
applied it seems pretty stable. For a while... but sooner or later,
often right after a dock or undock - it goes into an infinite loop
when booting. As soon as the OS boots and before the login screen
appears it puts up an error and says 'system is shotting down, save
data' and counts off 60 seconds (I can do nothing - I'm not even
logged in). It will do this boot up and shot down over and over
infinitely. It will not boot into safe mode or simply command prompt
and again I'm stuck having to do a re-install.
I've installed lots of W2Ks on various desktops and they've always
gone relatively smoothly. This is the first time I've ever set up a
notebook. I've downloaded the various Dell drivers and tried applying
them right after the basic W2K install (some won't catch 22 says they
can only be installed AFTER SP has been applied!).
So are there any 'best practices' or 'tricks' or 'strategies' or
'gotchas' someone might suggest when trying to setup W2K on a notebook
like the Dell Latitude C600?
thanks,