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Amy Montgomery
I was recently trying to switch parts between two IBM
Thinkpad laptops (600E/600X), and everything went fine
until I was trying to switch the hard drives on the two
machines. When I switched the hard drives, I started
having issues with the 600E laptop. It was in 640x480
mode (the screen supports 1024x768) - however, this was
resolved later on when I did a BIOS check. Before I did
this step, however, I had uninstalled four things in
Device Manager that were showing up as conflicts (thinking
that they had been duplicated from the previous hard
drive). Since that time, I have had problems starting the
computer, and it is constantly cycling - I have not had a
successful entrance into Windows 2000 Professsional since
that time. Here is what is happening:
It acts normal until just before it enters Windows.
About 90% through the final bar before entering Windows,
it starts a disk check of the harddrive, and that always
comes out ok.
After the disk check, it triggers the BSOD with Video
Driver Failed to Initialize - but the BSOD only stays on
screen for about a second before the computer starts to
restart the computer and start the whole process over.
(It took me about 6 cycles before I was able to get that
much information to identify it!) Also on that screen I
was able to catch that it was doing a full memory dump.
Nothing will get me out of this loop.
Here are the steps I've tried to get out of this loop:
1) I have tried getting in through safe mode. This does
not work.
2) I have tried Last Known Good Configuration. No change.
3) Enable VGA mode - still doesn't work.
4) I have tried EVERY safe mode option on the F8 screen -
nothing will get me in.
5) Tried to see if bypassing the normal boot process by
insterting the Windows 2000 Professional CD into the
drive - the drive lights up, but nothing happens, it still
goes through the same cycle.
6) Ran a BIOS test - only thing that came up was errors
with the memory card, however the memory was the original
memory that came with the laptop.
Does anyone have ANY solution on how to get past this? I
can't seem to find any way to install new or repair the
old as it will not trigger past the normal setup
procedure. Also - the order in the BIOS load up shows the
CD as first in the path, but it is not changing the method
of start up in reality.
Thanks in advance.
Thinkpad laptops (600E/600X), and everything went fine
until I was trying to switch the hard drives on the two
machines. When I switched the hard drives, I started
having issues with the 600E laptop. It was in 640x480
mode (the screen supports 1024x768) - however, this was
resolved later on when I did a BIOS check. Before I did
this step, however, I had uninstalled four things in
Device Manager that were showing up as conflicts (thinking
that they had been duplicated from the previous hard
drive). Since that time, I have had problems starting the
computer, and it is constantly cycling - I have not had a
successful entrance into Windows 2000 Professsional since
that time. Here is what is happening:
It acts normal until just before it enters Windows.
About 90% through the final bar before entering Windows,
it starts a disk check of the harddrive, and that always
comes out ok.
After the disk check, it triggers the BSOD with Video
Driver Failed to Initialize - but the BSOD only stays on
screen for about a second before the computer starts to
restart the computer and start the whole process over.
(It took me about 6 cycles before I was able to get that
much information to identify it!) Also on that screen I
was able to catch that it was doing a full memory dump.
Nothing will get me out of this loop.
Here are the steps I've tried to get out of this loop:
1) I have tried getting in through safe mode. This does
not work.
2) I have tried Last Known Good Configuration. No change.
3) Enable VGA mode - still doesn't work.
4) I have tried EVERY safe mode option on the F8 screen -
nothing will get me in.
5) Tried to see if bypassing the normal boot process by
insterting the Windows 2000 Professional CD into the
drive - the drive lights up, but nothing happens, it still
goes through the same cycle.
6) Ran a BIOS test - only thing that came up was errors
with the memory card, however the memory was the original
memory that came with the laptop.
Does anyone have ANY solution on how to get past this? I
can't seem to find any way to install new or repair the
old as it will not trigger past the normal setup
procedure. Also - the order in the BIOS load up shows the
CD as first in the path, but it is not changing the method
of start up in reality.
Thanks in advance.