SuperMicro 370SWD continually reboots after install of W2K or XP

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Frank

I have a SuperMicro 370SWD mother board with Windows 98. When I do any of
the following: a) upgrade to XP Home, b) fresh install of XP Home or, c)
fresh install of W2K Pro I get the following problem...

The install files get installed onto the hard drive during first part of
install, the system reboots for the first time, I see the msinfo.ini menu,
(i.e. Windows XP Professional), then the system immediatly reboots. I get
to the same point and it reboots again. The results are idential for a), b)
and c) above.

I did call the vendor and they think it sould work OK for at least Windows
2000, but it does not. Can anyone shed any light as to why this might be
happening?

Frank
 
Hi, Frank.

msinfo.ini?

I've been running Win2K and WinXP for four years and I have no such file on
my HD at all. And Google never heard of it!

I've installed Win2K and WinXP many times and have never seen "the
msinfo.ini menu, (i.e. Windows XP Professional)".

HOW are you installing WinXP? Are you booting from the WinXP CD-ROM? Or
are you booting into Win98 and trying to do the upgrade or clean install
from there (with all the old 16-bit stuff already loaded - and possibly some
utility supplied by SuperMicro)?

RC
 
oops, I meant boot.ini.

Frank

R. C. White said:
Hi, Frank.

msinfo.ini?

I've been running Win2K and WinXP for four years and I have no such file on
my HD at all. And Google never heard of it!

I've installed Win2K and WinXP many times and have never seen "the
msinfo.ini menu, (i.e. Windows XP Professional)".

HOW are you installing WinXP? Are you booting from the WinXP CD-ROM? Or
are you booting into Win98 and trying to do the upgrade or clean install
from there (with all the old 16-bit stuff already loaded - and possibly some
utility supplied by SuperMicro)?

RC
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a),
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Hi, Frank.

OK. That makes more sense.

Boot.ini (as you know) is the file that holds the locations of each of the
Windows installations in your computer. It's a simple text file, but it has
the Hidden, System and Read-only attributes, so you have to deal with those
to see or edit the file. It's ALWAYS in the Root of the "system partition",
so it is almost always C:\boot.ini. Please post a copy of C:\boot.ini in
your next post here.

Also, please answer the question(s) I asked earlier:
HOW are you installing WinXP? Are you booting from the WinXP CD-ROM? Or
are you booting into Win98 and trying to do the upgrade or clean install
from there (with all the old 16-bit stuff already loaded - and possibly some
utility supplied by SuperMicro)?
Click to expand...

Also, are you letting WinXP Setup partition and/or format your hard drive?
As NTFS? Any other details that you care to include (how many HDs; how big;
how partitioned, etc.) might keep us from looking down some blind alley.

RC
 
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