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pointdablame:

what do you mean you are "using" the p4 aux power cable. That should only be used in a P4 motherboard, there should be nowhere to plug that into an AMD mobo.  Also, it sounds like you may have a problem in the actual IDE channels if you've gone through all this.  Try resetting your CMOS on the mobo by unplugging the battery and using the reset jumper (if applicable). This is just something that came to mind, but I don't honestly think it'll do much.  You may also wanna see what options you have with returning your mobo for another one. I personally have dealt with ECS a few times, and they were very flaky. And I've heard bad things about these 2800+ Pro chips that are actually like Duron 1.4's or some such. If you have an actual AthlonXP 2800+ disregard that, but if not, its even more reason to see if its a mobo problem.

Edgedamage:


--- Quote from: pmc on March 30, 2004, 12:31:11 pm ---Consider this:

When asked to reboot, eject the CD and remove it. Enter the BIOS before the reboot and verify the HD is only device to boot from. Disable all other HDs. Exit & Save settings. Reboot.

You'll either boot off the partial W2K install or the machine will hang-up or error indicating that something's wrong with the BIOS settings, the drive, the partition, or the install. Either way, you'll know.

As per someone else's comment, run FDISK or PartitionMagic or something and verify that the partition is properly set and active. Then again, W2K shouldn't install without straightening that out for you.

--- End quote ---

Man you hit the nail on the head. I did what you said and the comp restarted and win started the installation process and stopped and asked for the cd. In fact this responce is from the now working comp. Also I know it sound funny to have a AMD motherboard that uses the p-4 aux power connector. But the board has the connector and the little book says to use it. Again thank you EVERYONE who helped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

pmc:

Glad to help. Been through that kind of thing a few times myself.

Make sure you reset you BIOS settings back to normal now. And you'll probably still want to upgrade that power supply. If you add another hard drive and a CDR and DVD and a USB device or three you'll start to get see some interesting behavior.  ;)

- pmc

Edgedamage:

Thing that bugs me is I have installed win2kpro on 8 diffrent machines and this one was the only one that did not want the cd in the drive during the full install. That's what sent me for a loop. As for adding extras this comps only use is for my vertical cocktail cab.

StephenH:

I would check the controller and the BIOS, as well as the master/slave jumpers.

 Additionally, I would make sure the drive is formatted with FAT32 or NTFS.  

You may want to try a boot disk with fdisk and see if there are any non-windows paritions on it, and if so delete them (note: data will be lost when you do this, btut it sounds like you are installing clean anyway).



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