Thanks, John.
BIOS virus protection is OFF.
Have tried various BIOS settings for stability and not 'pushing my luck'
with speed.
The only graphics cards I have available at the moment are all Matrox ones -
G400 and G450 - hardly the most demanding. I could buy a cheap one tomorrow
if it would help (suggestions ?).
330w power supply. Only one HD is the system so far, no CDRW or DVD yet,
SCSI card and drives not installed yet.
Could go out and buy a 500w PSU tomorrow if that is the problem, but
wouldn't have thought it was necessary.
XP2400 + GA-7VRXP + 512 Mb DDR + G400 + 60 Gb HD + floppy. That's it so far.
Anything else I could try before I have to throw money at this problem ?
Thanks,
Kevin.

John7 wrote:
| Hi Kevin,
|
| Turn virus / bootsector protection off in BIOS until install finished.
| It seems the lockup occurs when the videocard is about to go into
| graphics mode.
| First, try defensive settings in BIOS.
| Second, try swapping the card.
| When graphic mode turns on, the card draws more current.
| What is the wattage of your power supply?
| You'll need at least 300W, better 350W.
| Tell us more about your system.
|
| Installing windows on another mainboard, then swapping harddrive
| to other mainboard won't work.
|
| HTH,
| John7
|
|
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| "Kevin Lawton" wrote in message
| ...
|| Please, can somebody help me with this ?
|| Gigabyte GA-7VRXP + AMD XP2400 + 2 x 256 Mb DDR2700.
|| The above runs various versions of DOS, from either floppy or hard
|| drive (60 Gb Seagate), fine - no problem at all.
|| If I try to install Windows 2000 it all seems to be going well until
|| I get to the point where it should be 'Starting to run Windows for
|| the first time' - and it just hangs - forever :-)
|| I have tried building a fresh install on a Duron 1200 and then
|| swapping the hard drive over - same problem: hangs after the
|| 'starting Windows' progress stripe has completed.
|| I've tried swapping both memory and motherboard (both GA-7VRXP
|| Rev1.1) and still the same problem.
|| This is driving me crazy !
|| Does anyone have any ideas on what I should try next ?
|| Any help would be very gratefully appreciated.
|| TIA,
|| Kevin.