BE6-II rev2 - can't install Win2k
Jon Ralls
here...
BE6-II-rev2
Samsung 8GB drive on IDE1
CD-ROM on IDE2
3com 3C905TX on PCI 4
I first tried Win2k install with other cards in including a
SCSI controller. Keep getting blue-screen error after Setup
disk 4:
c0000221 Unknown Hard Error
\systemRoot\System32\ntdll.dll
(plus all sorts of stuff about hardware that assumes you've
got W2k installed already!)
Tried using the [F6] and installing the latest Highpoint
driver - won't accept it.
Tried taking all the other cards out - same problems.
Tried disabling the ATA/66 in the BIOS - same problems.
What the hell do I try now?!
Jon
thesystem
IDE4 = ata66
IDE3 = ata66
IDE2 = udma33
IDE1 = udma33
connect the harddrive to ide3 use the 80 wire cable make sure you have it
connected correctly (black to motherboard)
if i remember correctly
connect the cdrom to ide1
then use the F6 option while installing Win2K
note: if you have the cdrom and harddive connected to the same cable get it
off of there
aslo is the samsung drive an ata/66 drive ..?
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Jon Ralls
thesystem wrote:
> are you sure it's on IDE1 and not IDE3
Yes. However, will try your suggestion, since what is says in the manual about
installing drivers using IDE 1 then moving the drive to IDE3 later hasn't
worked...
> connect the harddrive to ide3 use the 80 wire cable make sure you have it
> connected correctly (black to motherboard)
> if i remember correctly
No - it's BLUE to motherboard. Checked manual & machine... OK
>
> connect the cdrom to ide1
Have done.
>
> then use the F6 option while installing Win2K
Yep.
> note: if you have the cdrom and harddive connected to the same cable get it
> off of there
No probs - know that one!
>
> aslo is the samsung drive an ata/66 drive ..?
>
Yep -- it's been working fine under Win98 - well, as well as could be
expected... ;-)
OK -- long pause while we go through 4 install floppies and the driver disk for
the umpteenth time...
(Incidentally - the supposed Win2k file 370RAID_1.11.0512_Win2K.zip I just
downloaded from the Highpoint website has drivers in it for NT (or at least
have NT in their names) and specify paths to subdirectory \2k in TXTSETUP.OEM
No wonder W2k couldn't find what it wanted. Have reconstructed a driver disk by
subsituting the new files from the previous revision (370raid_103b_2k.zip) in
the correct directories on a copy of the original floppy that came with the
board, which at least got the drivers to install. Would have been nice of them
to tell us...)
Bu**** - still getting the blue screen....
A thought -- could this be anything to do with my HD partitioning / formatting?
I've got the following:
ext2 - LINUX 292 MB
FAT C: WINDOZE 1906 MB < convert to NTFS later
NTFS D: PROGRAMS 1906 MB
NTFS E: USER 1906 MB
FAT F: SCRATCH 2047 MB < partial Win98 backup
Could Win2k be objecting to the ext2 partition?! Or something...
back to Partition Magic for a moment...
Nope - all looks good there - first FAT partition is Active...
I give up. Time for some sleep -- if anybody has any brainwaves while I'm
sleeping...
:-)
Jon
TomG
did you have a copy of the drivers unzipped and copied to a floppy?
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TomG
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Thomas Geery
Network+ certified
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