W2K Setup & Reboot Problems

[Andy]

I had big problems installing W2K. After got a blue screen
with a "IRQL" or "KMODE" error. By trial and error I got
it installed. This was after I removed 256MB of memory,
leaving 256MB in the system. But, the system boots
successfully about 1 time in 5. Having set the "/sos"
switch in boot.ini, I see that it completes checking the
drives, then it just reboots without an error message. If
it does boot, it might reboot during normal operation.

I swapped the memory modules and get similar problems. I
even tried someone elses memory modules; same problem.

The system is a A7V8X M/B, with ATHLON 2200+ CPU and
Samsung or Infineon memory.

Have updated the BIOS and tried older BIOS versions.

Any ideas how to troubleshoot this?

 

[Leonard Severt [MSFT]]

I had big problems installing W2K. After got a blue screen
with a "IRQL" or "KMODE" error. By trial and error I got
it installed. This was after I removed 256MB of memory,
leaving 256MB in the system. But, the system boots
successfully about 1 time in 5. Having set the "/sos"
switch in boot.ini, I see that it completes checking the
drives, then it just reboots without an error message. If
it does boot, it might reboot during normal operation.

I swapped the memory modules and get similar problems. I
even tried someone elses memory modules; same problem.

The system is a A7V8X M/B, with ATHLON 2200+ CPU and
Samsung or Infineon memory.

Have updated the BIOS and tried older BIOS versions.

Any ideas how to troubleshoot this?

Pull all PCI cards you can. What OS was you running before? How did you do
the install? Has this system every worked correctly?

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team

 

[Andy]

-----Original Message-----


Pull all PCI cards you can. What OS was you running before? How did you do
the install? Has this system every worked correctly?

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team

Leonard,

All PCI cards pulled. Tried a PCI graphics card instead of
an AGP graphics card; no change. HD newly formatted.

Have turned off "automatic reboot on failure". Blue screen
at boot says problems loading registry or alternative. As
mentioned, sometimes system will boot okay.

Andy

 

[Leonard Severt [MSFT]]

Leonard,

All PCI cards pulled. Tried a PCI graphics card instead of
an AGP graphics card; no change. HD newly formatted.

Have turned off "automatic reboot on failure". Blue screen
at boot says problems loading registry or alternative. As
mentioned, sometimes system will boot okay.

Andy

Well sounds like it is core hardware problem then. Not really a good way
to determine what. Could be memory, processor or motherboard or even
something like the power supply. Only thing you can do is try different
components.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team