Installation: After setup copies files Windows locks up during first boot

[Rob Gubler]

I've recently purchased new hardware, and during the
installation process I chose to delete the partition that
Windows 2000 was previously installed on so it would be a
clean install.

Hardware:

Motherboard: Albatron, Intel PX865PE Pro
Processor: 2.6GHZ Pentium 4 with hyper threads
Video: Radeon 9600 XT AGP
RAM: 2 Corsair 400MHZ(PC3200) 512 Meg Chips (1 Gig
total)
Hard disk: Samsung 80 Gig



As expected, after Windows Setup completes copying the
files successfully, the setup program informs me it is
going to reboot the computer and that I should remove any
floppy disks.

When it reboots, Windows 2000 locks up almost immediately
after the BIOS completes execution. It will get as far as
the start-up screen where it displays the progress bar.
It seems to vary on how far it get at this point. I don't
get any error messages -- Windows just locks up and stops
responding (Control-Alt-Delete doesn't work).

I've tried booting it into "Safe Mode." Here's the output:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT\System32
\mtoskrnl.exe
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT\System32\hal.dll
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT\System32
\BOOTVID.DLL
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT\system32
\config\system
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT\system32
\c_1252.nls
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT\system32
\c_437.nls
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT\system32
\l_inil.nls
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT\FONTS\vgaoem.fon

It will never get farther than this point. Sometimes it
won't even get this far. I've noticed that once it has
locked up the read/write led on my hard drive is lit up.

Any suggestions?

Regards,

Rob

 

[\(JD\)]

Sounds like hardware or some setting in your BIOS is preventing boot.

(JD)