inaccesible boot device on first start during 98se>2k upgrade

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Thu Feb 06, 2003 10:15 pm

well. its always something

tried to upgrade this (from a fresh lite install of 98 and 98se) and keep getting inaccesible boot device bsod

two motherboards in a row in the same case - 98se runs fine

ran the upgrade from the 2k CD like always??

this is a msi 645 ultra/1.6a which has run win 2k in the same case - the only difference is the ps and the hd, which is a freshly formatted 20 gig maxtor

any ideas welcome

Judg3 · Post by **Judg3** » Fri Feb 07, 2003 3:12 am

heh, that's a BSOD I've seen way to many times - using a RAID card or PCI IDE card? Usually thats the culprit. If it's not, then maybe 2k doesn't know what your onboard IDE driver is, and you'll have to go to the makers website and DL em. But we always used RAID, etc, and if I didn't hit F6 during the install setup to "Install 3rd party drivers" then it would BSOD on me with that error.

Well, I also go it upon a reboot with a bad NIC setup (2 NICs, port aggregation), but I doubt thats the case.

Dunno if that helps, but thats about the only way to get that during setup, non-standard/3rd party controller cards

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Fri Feb 07, 2003 7:34 am

standard on board ide controller - maybe i'll try switching ide connectors on the mobo and replace the cable- i had some issues with this mobo before which i could never isolate

the hd was formated under win98 but i don't see how that would make a difference - i'll try a different hd as well

grrr

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Fri Feb 07, 2003 2:33 pm

replaced cable and used a different hdd - same result

in boot win2k sez ..scsi device not found - then bluescreens

odd that it did this on two different mobos - maybe a problem with the win2k disk

i'll try it on an amd build, and it that doesn't work go to wally mart and buy lindows boxes!!!!

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Sun Feb 09, 2003 7:06 am

as a last resort tried XP pro which loaded ok, but sloooow and buggy as hell

this was to be a kids box and a lot of their stuff won't run on xp

- reader rabbit type stuff

first time using XP at home - how do you spell slow - have current drivers, sp1, etc.

onboard sounf (ac97 on msi 645 ultra-c) had horrebdous conflicts and would lock system

stuck in a cmedia card which is better and sound is ok in plain xp but try to use any other progs keep getting slowdowns, distortions, etc. will try musical pci slots

puter is basicaly unusable because it is so slow - only have 256 mb ram - could that make it so slow? i have a lappy with xp home that is 3x faster

this may get stuck under the counter as a folding box until i have the time to figure it out,

i'll benchmark it and see if the cpu is actually running at 2.0

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sun Feb 09, 2003 9:08 am

If it's slow and buggy I'd blame the old install rather than XP. Also XP requires a minimum of 500 Mhz and 256Mb.

You really can't expect things to run right when upgrading a non-functinal or buggy existing Windows install.

Sounds like it's time for a clean install.

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Sun Feb 09, 2003 10:38 pm

FP as ususal you were on the mark

went back and scrubbed both hd's

installed very quickly on 1800+ tbird nforce2/256 system (30 mins) - still looks silly though

took about 2 hours+ on the p4 1.6a/256mb system - something seriously wrong there - if i have time i will try and figure out tomorrow or this week