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  #1  
Old April 5th 04, 12:59 PM
Kevin Lawton
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Default GA-7VRXP & Winodws 2000 no-go !

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.



  #2  
Old April 5th 04, 04:46 PM
John7
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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


PS: to protect yourself from spam, don't post your email address here
or insert something like REMOVE.



"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.




  #3  
Old April 5th 04, 05:13 PM
Kevin Lawton
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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
|
|
| PS: to protect yourself from spam, don't post your email address here
| or insert something like REMOVE.
|
|
|
| "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.


  #4  
Old April 5th 04, 11:27 PM
John7
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Hi Kevin,

Indeed, Matrox G400 and G450 are not demanding.
330W PSU seems sufficient.
If present in bios, Top Performance should be off.
(you may have to press CTRL+F1 in bios main menu first).
Have you tried running with one DIMM only (either one).
If DIMM's are OEM, try branded ones.
Create a MS WinDiag floppy (see MS KB) to have them checked
or try www.simmtester.com
Check out MS KB article 315396 (keeps you off the streets for a while)

HTH,
John7




"Kevin Lawton" wrote in message
...
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
|
|
| PS: to protect yourself from spam, don't post your email address here
| or insert something like REMOVE.
|
|
|
| "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.



  #5  
Old April 6th 04, 01:36 AM
Kevin Lawton
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Thanks again John.
Top performance is off in the BIOS.
I have started with defalt BIOS settings and disabled hardware I don't need
to start with - sound, LAN, USB, RAID.
I have tried various combinations of DIMMs - one, two or three - all branded
Samsung, Crucial or Exact. Various memory test software has passed them as
okay.
Had a look at the MS knowledge base article, but mostly it discusses
situations where Windows 2000 has booted up sucessfully on the machine once
before.
Also looked at the MS 'Windows 2000 Startup' newsgroup. Similar problems
have cropped up occasionally before, but never been properly explained or
resolved.
I am gradually coming to the conclusion that Windows 2000 and the GA-7VRXP
m/board don't get along - but have seen no reports to confirm or deny that
as yet. If so, then it would suggest that there is something on the m/board
which the default Windows 2000 drivers from the CD foul-up so badly wih that
the op system hangs - seems unlikely, but what else is left ? Other VIA
chipset m/boards I use are fine.
This would leave me with only two options - either buy a different m/board
which Windows 2000 will install and run on, or buy and install Windows XP in
the hope that it will work properly. I'm not really happy with either of
these options as I have two of these m/boards - I'm upgrading both of my
machines - and I don't really want the bloat and expense of Windows XP
compared to the relatively fast and lean Windows 2000 which has been very
reliable for about four years.
Thanks for your help so far - have you any idea what I can do next ?
Cheers,
Kevin.

John7 wrote:
| Hi Kevin,
|
| Indeed, Matrox G400 and G450 are not demanding.
| 330W PSU seems sufficient.
| If present in bios, Top Performance should be off.
| (you may have to press CTRL+F1 in bios main menu first).
| Have you tried running with one DIMM only (either one).
| If DIMM's are OEM, try branded ones.
| Create a MS WinDiag floppy (see MS KB) to have them checked
| or try www.simmtester.com
| Check out MS KB article 315396 (keeps you off the streets for a while)
|
| HTH,
| John7
|
| "Kevin Lawton" wrote in message
| ...
|| 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
|||
|||
||| PS: to protect yourself from spam, don't post your email address
||| here or insert something like REMOVE.
|||
|||
|||
||| "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.


  #6  
Old April 6th 04, 09:34 AM
John7
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Kevin,

I installed such a m/board at a customer with Win2K, runs flawless.
Try Safe Mode (with log file) and check 'ntbtlog.txt' for clues.
It is described in the MS article I mentioned before.

John7


"Kevin Lawton" wrote in message
...
Thanks again John.
Top performance is off in the BIOS.
I have started with defalt BIOS settings and disabled hardware I don't

need
to start with - sound, LAN, USB, RAID.
I have tried various combinations of DIMMs - one, two or three - all

branded
Samsung, Crucial or Exact. Various memory test software has passed them as
okay.
Had a look at the MS knowledge base article, but mostly it discusses
situations where Windows 2000 has booted up sucessfully on the machine

once
before.
Also looked at the MS 'Windows 2000 Startup' newsgroup. Similar problems
have cropped up occasionally before, but never been properly explained or
resolved.
I am gradually coming to the conclusion that Windows 2000 and the GA-7VRXP
m/board don't get along - but have seen no reports to confirm or deny that
as yet. If so, then it would suggest that there is something on the

m/board
which the default Windows 2000 drivers from the CD foul-up so badly wih

that
the op system hangs - seems unlikely, but what else is left ? Other VIA
chipset m/boards I use are fine.
This would leave me with only two options - either buy a different m/board
which Windows 2000 will install and run on, or buy and install Windows XP

in
the hope that it will work properly. I'm not really happy with either of
these options as I have two of these m/boards - I'm upgrading both of my
machines - and I don't really want the bloat and expense of Windows XP
compared to the relatively fast and lean Windows 2000 which has been very
reliable for about four years.
Thanks for your help so far - have you any idea what I can do next ?
Cheers,
Kevin.

John7 wrote:
| Hi Kevin,
|
| Indeed, Matrox G400 and G450 are not demanding.
| 330W PSU seems sufficient.
| If present in bios, Top Performance should be off.
| (you may have to press CTRL+F1 in bios main menu first).
| Have you tried running with one DIMM only (either one).
| If DIMM's are OEM, try branded ones.
| Create a MS WinDiag floppy (see MS KB) to have them checked
| or try www.simmtester.com
| Check out MS KB article 315396 (keeps you off the streets for a while)
|
| HTH,
| John7
|
| "Kevin Lawton" wrote in message
| ...
|| 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
|||
|||
||| PS: to protect yourself from spam, don't post your email address
||| here or insert something like REMOVE.
|||
|||
|||
||| "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.



  #7  
Old April 6th 04, 01:10 PM
Kevin Lawton
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John,
As soon as I encoutered this problem I tried safe mode - but I still get the
same problem, it says it is starting then hangs before I get a desktop up.
In fact I have tried starting in just about every mode available from the
'F8' menu - logged, command prompt, anything, and in every case the system
just hangs just at the point which I can best describe as 'really running
the operating system' as opposed to running in some sort of booting/loading
mode or version.
The bootlog file doesn't appear to be being written, so I think the point of
failure must be just before the bootlog is created. The MS articles just
don't seem to hit the point of failure I'm experiencing. In fact, judging by
the content of the MS knowledgebase articles and their newgroup, MS seem to
deny that a failuer can occur at this point - or at least that it is not a
problem in Windows as such.
If MS are to be believed, then I'm getting a hardware failure. I've tried
replacing just about every component in the system, in fact the only part I
haven't replaced is the processor - due to the cost. I was wondering whether
there was any way of making sure that this actually is a processor problem
before spending out on a replacement.
MS-DOS and DR-DOS both run fine, but they are only 16-bit real-mode. Windows
2000 hangs at some point in the boot sequence just before it 'gets
sophisticated' and brings up the desktop. I'm thinking that it is time to
try loading in something else - either some processor test software or
another op system.
Any further ideas along these lines - or do you think I'm chasing a 'red
herring' ?
Thanks for your help,
Kevn.

John7 wrote:
| Kevin,
|
| I installed such a m/board at a customer with Win2K, runs flawless.
| Try Safe Mode (with log file) and check 'ntbtlog.txt' for clues.
| It is described in the MS article I mentioned before.
|
| John7
|
| "Kevin Lawton" wrote in message
| ...
|| Thanks again John.
|| Top performance is off in the BIOS.
|| I have started with defalt BIOS settings and disabled hardware I
|| don't need to start with - sound, LAN, USB, RAID.
|| I have tried various combinations of DIMMs - one, two or three - all
|| branded Samsung, Crucial or Exact. Various memory test software has
|| passed them as okay.
|| Had a look at the MS knowledge base article, but mostly it discusses
|| situations where Windows 2000 has booted up sucessfully on the
|| machine once before.
|| Also looked at the MS 'Windows 2000 Startup' newsgroup. Similar
|| problems have cropped up occasionally before, but never been
|| properly explained or resolved.
|| I am gradually coming to the conclusion that Windows 2000 and the
|| GA-7VRXP m/board don't get along - but have seen no reports to
|| confirm or deny that as yet. If so, then it would suggest that there
|| is something on the m/board which the default Windows 2000 drivers
|| from the CD foul-up so badly wih that the op system hangs - seems
|| unlikely, but what else is left ? Other VIA chipset m/boards I use
|| are fine.
|| This would leave me with only two options - either buy a different
|| m/board which Windows 2000 will install and run on, or buy and
|| install Windows XP in the hope that it will work properly. I'm not
|| really happy with either of these options as I have two of these
|| m/boards - I'm upgrading both of my machines - and I don't really
|| want the bloat and expense of Windows XP compared to the relatively
|| fast and lean Windows 2000 which has been very reliable for about
|| four years.
|| Thanks for your help so far - have you any idea what I can do next ?
|| Cheers,
|| Kevin.
||
|| John7 wrote:
||| Hi Kevin,
|||
||| Indeed, Matrox G400 and G450 are not demanding.
||| 330W PSU seems sufficient.
||| If present in bios, Top Performance should be off.
||| (you may have to press CTRL+F1 in bios main menu first).
||| Have you tried running with one DIMM only (either one).
||| If DIMM's are OEM, try branded ones.
||| Create a MS WinDiag floppy (see MS KB) to have them checked
||| or try www.simmtester.com
||| Check out MS KB article 315396 (keeps you off the streets for a
||| while)
|||
||| HTH,
||| John7
|||
||| "Kevin Lawton" wrote in message
||| ...
|||| 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
|||||
|||||
||||| PS: to protect yourself from spam, don't post your email address
||||| here or insert something like REMOVE.
|||||
|||||
|||||
||||| "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.


  #8  
Old April 7th 04, 08:06 AM
Simon Elliott
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Kevin Lawton wrote:

all snipped

Kevin

I appreciate it's not much help to say this but my combination of
GA-7VRXP (Rev 1.1, I think) & Athlon 1600 works fine with W2K (and
W95). It can be done.

If I've followed the thread correctly you've tried changing memory, but
have you tried a different HDD?

--

Simon
  #9  
Old April 8th 04, 01:17 AM
Kevin Lawton
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The HD in question was clean to start with, as were some of the others I've
tried - so far 40, 60 & 80 Gb Seagate HDs. Same result on all of them. All
tried on another machine afterwards with no problems. I don't use any disk
manager software - modern BIOSes can see the whole of the drive fine as is.
If this was an MBR problem then it wouldn't boot as far as it does, I think.
I've tried slowing down the FSB speed, and also the memory speed, but still
no change.
Tried replacing the Matrox G400 AGP card with a Matrox Mystique PCI card
(and changed BIOS) but still no change - it boots as far as the 'Starting
Windows' bar completes and then hangs. In 'Safe Mode with Command Prompt' I
can see Mup.sys as the last file sucessfully loaded. I think this is the
famous 'muppet' problem !
Got myself a new PSU - a big beefy 550w job - and still no change.
So far, every piece of hardware except for the processor has been swapped
out.
Before buying another AMD XP2400 CPU I'd really like to make sure something
is wrong with the one I've got.
Does anyone know of any CPU testing/diagnostic software which I could
download and run from a floppy ?
TIA
Kevin.

John7 wrote:
| Kevin,
|
| Maybe Simon has a point ...
| Is this HD brand new or was there another OS before?
| Was any Disk Manager software installed before ?
| This software survives even fdisk and format !
| Try Win98 fdisk /mbr to restore a clean bootsector.
| Try harddisk checkers / diagnostics to check the disk surface.
| The first drive sectors are essential for stable OS installation.
| As a last resort, run the low level formatter from the drive mfg.
|
| Some other thoughts ...
| I've seen PSU's that appear fine but collapse as soon as more power
| is to delivered (e.g. when PC goes into graphics mode). Now the
| m/board is outside the case, can't you hook it up to a friend's PSU?
|
| Try running your CPU at a lower Front Side Bus Speed, best is 100MHz.
| If Windows boots, run 'cpuid.exe' by www.h-oda.com to check if the CPU
| is what it pretents to be. Background: there are falsified re-labeled
| CPU's around (like 2000XP -- 2400XP, so in essence running
| overclocked)
|
| I hope we find at least something here! :-)
|
| John7
|
| "Simon Elliott" wrote in message
| ...
|| Kevin Lawton wrote:
||
||| all snipped
|||
|| Kevin
||
|| I appreciate it's not much help to say this but my combination of
|| GA-7VRXP (Rev 1.1, I think) & Athlon 1600 works fine with W2K (and
|| W95). It can be done.
||
|| If I've followed the thread correctly you've tried changing memory,
|| but have you tried a different HDD?
||
|| --
||
|| Simon


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Old April 8th 04, 09:42 AM
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Hi Kevin,

Never heard about the 'Muppet problem', but one is never to old to learn.

I found this solution for you:
----------------------------------
Start the Recovery console or..
Start the computer with the boot disks or Windows CDROM
After the Welcome to Setup dialog box appears, press R to repair, and then
press C to start Recovery console.
Choose install Windows and log on as Administrator.

At the command prompt type "disable Mup.sys"

"MUP stands for "Multiple UNC Provider" which assists Windows in locating
resources when more than one redirector is on a machine such as "Microsoft
Client for Microsoft Networks" and the "Novell Client for Novell Netware".
When a connection to a server is requested it does not know if the request
is to a Novell server or an NT server. It will start looking for the server
with the primary protocol on the primary requestor and then continue looking
for the server on each protocol bound to each redirector until the server is
found."

Restart the computer and all should be well.
---------------------------

I am curious about your results !

HTH,
John7



"Kevin Lawton" wrote in message
...
The HD in question was clean to start with, as were some of the others

I've
tried - so far 40, 60 & 80 Gb Seagate HDs. Same result on all of them. All
tried on another machine afterwards with no problems. I don't use any disk
manager software - modern BIOSes can see the whole of the drive fine as

is.
If this was an MBR problem then it wouldn't boot as far as it does, I

think.
I've tried slowing down the FSB speed, and also the memory speed, but

still
no change.
Tried replacing the Matrox G400 AGP card with a Matrox Mystique PCI card
(and changed BIOS) but still no change - it boots as far as the 'Starting
Windows' bar completes and then hangs. In 'Safe Mode with Command Prompt'

I
can see Mup.sys as the last file sucessfully loaded. I think this is the
famous 'muppet' problem !
Got myself a new PSU - a big beefy 550w job - and still no change.
So far, every piece of hardware except for the processor has been swapped
out.
Before buying another AMD XP2400 CPU I'd really like to make sure

something
is wrong with the one I've got.
Does anyone know of any CPU testing/diagnostic software which I could
download and run from a floppy ?
TIA
Kevin.

John7 wrote:
| Kevin,
|
| Maybe Simon has a point ...
| Is this HD brand new or was there another OS before?
| Was any Disk Manager software installed before ?
| This software survives even fdisk and format !
| Try Win98 fdisk /mbr to restore a clean bootsector.
| Try harddisk checkers / diagnostics to check the disk surface.
| The first drive sectors are essential for stable OS installation.
| As a last resort, run the low level formatter from the drive mfg.
|
| Some other thoughts ...
| I've seen PSU's that appear fine but collapse as soon as more power
| is to delivered (e.g. when PC goes into graphics mode). Now the
| m/board is outside the case, can't you hook it up to a friend's PSU?
|
| Try running your CPU at a lower Front Side Bus Speed, best is 100MHz.
| If Windows boots, run 'cpuid.exe' by www.h-oda.com to check if the CPU
| is what it pretents to be. Background: there are falsified re-labeled
| CPU's around (like 2000XP -- 2400XP, so in essence running
| overclocked)
|
| I hope we find at least something here! :-)
|
| John7
|
| "Simon Elliott" wrote in message
| ...
|| Kevin Lawton wrote:
||
||| all snipped
|||
|| Kevin
||
|| I appreciate it's not much help to say this but my combination of
|| GA-7VRXP (Rev 1.1, I think) & Athlon 1600 works fine with W2K (and
|| W95). It can be done.
||
|| If I've followed the thread correctly you've tried changing memory,
|| but have you tried a different HDD?
||
|| --
||
|| Simon



 




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