[win2kforum] Re: w2k Installation Issues
- From: "Mordy Gross" <mordygross@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <win2kforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:38:28 -0500
Did you try rebboting, then restarting win2k? The detect process writes a
log, anything that doesn't work the first time is ommited the next time.
Some times I would get the blue screen while detecting hardware, and I would
reboot, let Win2k run (not setup from the CD, setup on the harddrive) and I
wouldn't have a rpoblem the second time around. Win2k tries to run differant
configs by the machine to detect hardware. Some configs will crash the
machine.
-----Original Message-----
From: win2kforum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:win2kforum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Richard Smith
Sent: Mon, March 26, 2001 2:14 AM
To: win2kforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [win2kforum] Re: w2k Installation Issues
Thanks L.W.Kramer & Justin, here's some more info!
I don't have any on-board devices at all. There are none - I have no
on-board anything!
I don't use IDE so it's switched off in the BIOS - this is an exclusively
SCSI machine. But I did try using an IDE hard drive and CD-ROM at one time
to see if that could have been the issue.
And I did leave the machine sitting idle on the splash screen with the
progress meter at 51% for about 8 hours one time. No change!
Keyboard sounds interesting - I'm using a PS/2 keyboard which was
originally shipped with an HP UNIX machine, so that may be an issue.
Plug 'n' play is a real nightmare for me, I just hate it. A real advantage
of NT is that you don't get PnP so you never get the machine hanging
because it's too stupid to sort out IRQs and stuff like that. This mobo
seems pretty good, and AMD authorize it for the K6-2 processors, but
getting Microsoft to acknowledge anything that isn't Intel makes getting
help a real issue!
Any more help really welcome!
Richard
At 02:00 AM 3/26/01, you wrote:
>Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:06:15 -0800
>From: "L.W. Kramer" <lwkramer@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [win2kforum] Re: w2k Installation Issues
>
>
>We have seen this symptom on a variety of older Mobo's - There are a few
>things to
>try, assuming that the bios permits -
>
>- dink around with ACPI and APM features. Some mobo's claiming ACPI
>compliance were actually made while the standards were being finalized -
>we've had a few that had to go back for hardware mods (a couple of surface
>mount resistors have to be changed - see ASUS.com for instance).
>
>- check plug and play settings and try again. Modify them and try again.
>It's worth a few re-boots. Some BIOSes don't really make it clear what a
>given setting changes.
>
>- swap keyboards and/or mice. No kidding - have seen this work a few times.
>Maybe I'm superstitious, but the hang on the splash screen with the
>progress meter just at 51% has often (in my experience) been related to a
>keyboard or keyboard controller issue.
>
>- disable onboard devices if you have such, and try again: soundcards in
>particular, but sometimes if you have an old 'generic' pci video to swap in
>for an on-board video, it can get you through it so that you can examine
>the issue from a running but 'base-mode' system.
>
>- set the IDE controllers to their stupidest mode, temporarily.
>
>It's damn frustrating.
>
>
> >Richard how long do you wait while the slider appears stuck? I have heard
on
> >more than one occasion when detecting hardware that Win2k installs can
take
> >quite a while at a certain point during the install.
> >On an older system that I had it took nearly 20 minutes just sitting at
that
> >point. I went away and came back and it had continued.
> >
> >
> >-Justin
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: win2kforum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >[mailto:win2kforum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Richard Smith
> >Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 11:26 AM
> >To: win2kforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [win2kforum] w2k Installation Issues
> >
> >
> >
> >Hi Guys,
> >
> >I've asked this befors, but one more time won't hurt......
> >
> >Trying to upgrade my NT4sp6a Server machine to W2k Server I run into all
> >manner of troubles. Mainly, the installer goes OK until it gets to the
> >setting up hardware screen, where the slider moves about halfway along
then
> >freezes. Nothing I've tried will make any difference.
> >Briefly, the machine is AMD K6-2 500MHz on a Gigabyte GA-5AX motherboard
> >(latest BIOS), 512Mb PC133 RAM (3 sticks - 256, 128, 128), 9Gb IBM SCSI
> >drive, 2 Adaptec SCSI adapters, Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM and HP SCSI CD-RW,
> >Matrox video card, HP 4mm SCSI tape drive.
> >I've tried swapping any number of components to no avail, I did think it
> >was the Gigabyte but our NT expert at work says he's running W2k on his
> >GA-5AA motherboard so I maybe think there's something else. I've heard
from
> >a couple other guys having the same trouble with similar spec systems.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >TIA!
> >
> >Richard
> >
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