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Yep - the drivers need to be installed first (if you are saying that you installed XP using the regular Intel controller and want to switch it over to the ATA66 controller). Otherwise, you need a disk containing the hpt drivers and run a repair install after moving the hard drive to the ata66 controller. In my case, I installed XP clean and, like in Win2k, had the driver disk and pressed F6 after the first reboot so that I could choose to install the hpt drivers. ------------------ Shrink ------------------------------------------- "If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward." ------------------------------------------- PIII 650@850; BE6-II Mobo with 384 mb PC133 ram; 40GB WD Caviar, 20 gig Quantum KX, 8 gig Quantum CR; Ricoh 7060a burner; Aopen 52X CDRom; ATAPI Zip 100; SBlive Value; Realtech NIC; All In Wonder Radeon AGP; a bunch of USB Stuff (keyboard, mouse, scanner, hubs, blah blah); Windows 2000 Pro SP1; and a partridge in a pear tree.

I have a BE6-II and version 1.23 worked as did the 1.26 hpt366 drivers. Have fun. ------------------ Shrink ------------------------------------------- "If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward." ------------------------------------------- PIII 650@850; BE6-II Mobo with 384 mb PC133 ram; 40GB WD Caviar, 20 gig Quantum KX, 8 gig Quantum CR; Ricoh 7060a burner; Aopen 52X CDRom; ATAPI Zip 100; SBlive Value; Realtech NIC; All In Wonder Radeon AGP; a bunch of USB Stuff (keyboard, mouse, scanner, hubs, blah blah); Windows 2000 Pro SP1; and a partridge in a pear tree.

Get your motherboard manual and see how to reset your cmos (involves shorting a jumper on your motherboard - FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS IN YOUR MANUAL). If you can reset your cmos, that **might** allow you to boot. If not, see if you can get your hands on an isa graphics card and you **might** be able to boot with that (enough for the monitor to light up). In the meantime, on another computer, make a CLEAN boot disk (no autoexec.bat or config.sys - just the io.sys, command.com and whatever the other file is), copy the bios flash utility onto it along with the bios file. Create an autoexec.bat file that has the commands for flashing your bios (check the mobo manufacturer's site for this info). For example: AWDFLASH.EXE <bios file name> /py /sn /cd /cp /cc (that line is from the batch file that comes with the awdflash utility from abit. If you have an award bios it may work for you as well. In the meantime, while you are messing with this, call MSI and have them send you a new bios chip in case you don't get it working. Good luck:-( ------------------ Shrink ------------------------------------------- "If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward." ------------------------------------------- PIII 650@850; BE6-II Mobo with 384 mb PC133 ram; 40GB WD Caviar, 20 gig Quantum KX, 8 gig Quantum CR; Ricoh 7060a burner; Aopen 52X CDRom; ATAPI Zip 100; SBlive Value; Realtech NIC; All In Wonder Radeon AGP; a bunch of USB Stuff (keyboard, mouse, scanner, hubs, blah blah); Windows 2000 Pro SP1; and a partridge in a pear tree.

ACPI should work fine on your board. Just for the heck of it, pull one of the video cards. Download the archive again in case you have a bad archive. Make sure that your temp dir is cleaned out. Download Startup Control Panel at http://www.mlin.net/files/StartupCPL.zip and make sure that you have disabled any unnecessary programs running in the background, reboot when you have done this. After you have done those things (or ideally one at a time), post back what happened. ------------------ Shrink ------------------------------------------- "If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward." ------------------------------------------- PIII 650@850; BE6-II Mobo with 384 mb PC133 ram; 40GB WD Caviar, 20 gig Quantum KX, 8 gig Quantum CR; Ricoh 7060a burner; Aopen 52X CDRom; ATAPI Zip 100; SBlive Value; Realtech NIC; All In Wonder Radeon AGP; a bunch of USB Stuff (keyboard, mouse, scanner, hubs, blah blah); Windows 2000 Pro SP1; and a partridge in a pear tree. [This message has been edited by Shrink (edited 02 April 2001).]

rdk - you can use a bootdisk as was recommended but if you install Win2k and converted the partitions or hard disks to NTFS then you are SOL. You would need to get a trial of ntfsdos from sysinternals.com to be able to access an ntfs partition from dos. Have you tried booting with the Win2k cd to repair? What is the actual problem that you are having that causes you to want to access a Win2k install from DOS? ------------------ -------------------------------- Shrink "If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward." PIII 650@850; BE6-II Mobo with 384 mb PC133 ram; 40GB WD Caviar, 20 gig Quantum KX, 8 gig Quantum CR; Ricoh 7060a burner; Aopen 52X CDRom; ATAPI Zip 100; SBlive Value; Realtech NIC; All In Wonder Radeon AGP; a bunch of USB Stuff (keyboard, mouse, scanner, hubs, blah blah); Windows 2000 Pro SP1; and a partridge in a pear tree.

As was pointed out, ntcompatible probably gets more traffic than sysopt.com. Additionally, when Win2k gets messed up, it is often REALLY messed up and harder to troubleshoot. It is a more stable OS than Win9x but there is a great deal more complexity to it, so there are more things to tweak. Additionally, the OS is really only a couple years old and a lot of companies are still lagging on releasing mature drivers. On the other hand, the Win9x kernel is 6 years old and companies have had a longer time to work out the bugs and develop drivers. All that aside, if you have a fairly generic system (not on the bleeding edge technology-wise) you are likely to have a more stable Win2k install than if you have Win9x installed. ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 384 mb PC133 ram 40GB WD Caviar, 20 gig Quantum KX, 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value All In Wonder Radeon ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro SP1

Enterprise Edition = no serial # to provide. They are both the same in all other ways. ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 320 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value All In Wonder Radeon 32MB ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail

Anyone seen this (in Beta2 Pro): AMLI: ACPI BIOS is attempting to read from an illegal IO port address (0x71), which lies in the 0x70 - 0x71 protected address range. This machine has suffered a fatal error and needs to be shutdown as quickly as possible. Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance. I get that every time my system boots. Any idea, other than disabling ACPI, how to get rid of it? TIA ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 320 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value All In Wonder Radeon 32MB ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail

Hey folks - how is the login screen bypassed in Beta2 XP Pro so that it automatically logs in the default user without having to enter a password (such as in Win2k)? TIA ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 320 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value All In Wonder Radeon 32MB ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail

Thanks, Four and Twenty - so there is nothing built-in to the OS (as in the case of Windows 2000) to automatically login the user? If not, I guess the only option is to use tweakui :-( Shrink

Whistler and Blackcomb are the name of 2 ski resorts outside of Vancouver, British Columbia:-) Shrink

Win2k and XP can use well in excess of 256mb of ram (up to a terabyte or some ridiculously high number <g> ). ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 320 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value All In Wonder Radeon 32MB ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail

Well that just plan scares the crap out of me! 8) Shrink

Do a clean install of Windows 2000. Shrink

Thanks for the reply. I normally use Ghost but I need a larger hd to hold the ghosted ntfs partition <g>. I have found that Ghost's ability to burn to and read from my burner (Ricoh 7060a) is not terribly reliable, otherwise I would just be doing that. I will investigate how to transfer the rescue disks to cd but had hoped that someone else had already done it:-) Shrink

Do you know of any way of creating a rescue disk set and burning it to a bootable cd?? I absolutely hate floppies and would very much like to have the full rescue available via bootable cd. TIA ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 320 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value All In Wonder Radeon 32MB ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail

Do yourself a favour before you attract too much unwanted attention with the frantic all caps postings: try to sound a little less anxious:-) http://www.3dchipset.com/beta/nvidia/list.html That link contains a list of all the beta NVidia reference drivers. ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 320 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value All In Wonder Radeon 32MB ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail

The Longest Yard :-) Shrink

Cool Hand Luke :-) The line was said by Strother Martin Jr. (I always thought it sounded like Jack Nicholson). Shrink [This message has been edited by Shrink (edited 16 January 2001).]

Then don't answer them if you don't think that you can do so in a helpful and respectful way. Otherwise, ignore them as I do and the poster will eventually get around to finding the search function. Shrink

There is a difference between "insults" and constructive criticism or feedback. FWIW, I agree with you that the insults are counterproductive. OTOH, I see the bulk of the insults being thrown by you, JD. Instead of acting wounded when criticism is levied at you, I strongly urge you to exercise a little more respect and humility. Shrink [This message has been edited by Shrink (edited 15 January 2001).]

LOL - yep! I remember that it took me around 6 months to discover that these UBB boards even HAD a search function:-) Shrink

"hahaha.. 1) This forum is full of experts and that is what my point was 2) Most of this posts were done in the same thread, but i'm still well verse in computers 3) You made yourself look like a big idiot...my name isn't John Dulmage give me a break... " <sigh> Unless you were just doing a parody of yourself, I think you just proved my point:-) EddiE314 - no offense meant. Shrink [This message has been edited by Shrink (edited 15 January 2001).]

John - IMHO a good point was made, regardless of whether or not it agreed with you. Unless a crack is created (which undoubtedly will be done) or Whistler is blocked from "phoning home", this new "feature" will be a pain for folks who have acquired the operating system through w*rez channels. Don't you think it may be time to practice a little humility and tolerance for the opinions of others <g>? ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 320 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value All In Wonder Radeon 32MB ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail [This message has been edited by Shrink (edited 15 January 2001).]

What experts???? I am not sure that the number of posts qualifies one as an expert, especially when, for a few forum members, many of those posts were gained through posting to idiotically long threads designed to increase posting stats. I have been sitting back these weeks becoming increasingly dismayed by the direction in which this board is turning when newbies are being flamed or insulted and when you are responding to anyone who voices an opinion different from yours as an ignoramus. Just a reminder that this is the ntcompatible.com forum, not the John Dulmage forum:-) ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 650@850 BE6-II Mobo with 320 mb ram 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value All In Wonder Radeon 32MB ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail [This message has been edited by Shrink (edited 15 January 2001).]