Win 2000 Pro installation

[barbara]

Installing Windows 2000 Professional on a cleanly
formatted partition (Win98 on the other partition) and
setup hangs on the "Installing Devices" screen (keyboard
and mouse). There is a warning that the screen may
flicker for a few seconds and until that happens the
mouse cursor moves, after the flicker everything
freezes. Help?!

 

[jimmy]

before i suggest for you to do anything, i wanted to know
if you've installed any hardware on your computer, such as
RAM or anything like that.

 

[Jetro]

Some piece of your hardware isn't compatible with W2k. Query it with HCL;
Disable/remove all but video adapter, try different video, finish setup, and
add hardware one-by-one.

 

[barbara]

No I haven't installed any new hardware - it's a Pentium
3 machine.

 

[barbara]

Thanks, will try that. Do you think it's the monitor or
the screen card? Or could it be the mouse or keyboard?

 

[Jetro]

Mainly setup freezes when it's trying to detect an incompatible video
adapter, and sometimes supercharged USB k/b or mouse could be the reason as
well.

 

[Barbara]

Thanks - should I try another screen card then?