Papercup

Hi, hope someone can help. I have a machine that was a file server for an office, as well as being an internet gateway, mail server, print server, well, lots of things. It had a horrible cheap KT133 mainboard in which has died. I really don't want to re-install Windows (though i know i should) so I have bought a new Gigabyte mainboard, a KT133a one, hoping i could just power it up and it would boot, get slightly upset, then carry on. I am getting a STOP error just after the Windows 2000 boot screen, after the one with just the boot options, the actual 2000 Splash Screen. I get the first little cube in the line of cubes that appear, then the error. It doesn't like the IDE controller obviously (silly win2000 gets that far though so it found the hard drive OK). I have tried automatic fast repair, all options, with no change from the Win2000 CD. What now?

you are absolutely right and i know it, but i am going on holiday for a week, and havent time to do a clean install because this machine is the hub of the whole office and has tons of configuration to do after the OS has been installed. when i come back off holiday i will clean install it, but if i can just get it to boot into win2000 i can get it stable enuf to leave it for that little while i hate not clean installing it, but if it wasnt for these circumstances i would do it immediately tried the full repair already anyone else? cheers papercup

oh man i only just got SBS2000 in here on my 3rd machine! (its the server anyway, thought i had better play with exchange and that a bit....) anyone know why XP Pro takes an age (like 1-2 minutes) sitting at the 'applying personal settings' bit after you hit return to log on to the domain of SBS2000? just clean installed and its the same......tho outlook connects to exchange super quick now.....and everything else works.....just this logon issue i have two 2000pro workstations and they log on fine...... =============================================================== Server: 550 P3, BX, 512 crucial, 2x20gb maxtor udma100 5400rpm in software OS raid mirror for system drive ©. Plextor 24x10x40 burner. Promise Ultra100 TX2 PCI card with 1x40gb and 1x20gb Maxtors in software raid span (60Gb), 1x10gb quantum for backup (!). 2000 SBS, full active directory domain and exchange/ISA/ Norton AV Corp. Main Workstation/Games machine (my baby): 1000 P3, Asus TUSL2 815, 256 crucial, 1x20gb udma133 7200rpm Maxtor ©, Geforce 2 Pro, Win XP pro Spare workstation/gaming machine for mates when they come round: 533 P3, 256 Infineon, Geforce 256 SDR, 2000 Pro/98 SE Gateway machine: 333 Celeron, 128 unbranded PC133, 2000 Pro with USB ADSL modem and ICS/NAT enabled running Zonealarm for Domain

Hi Guys, I have recently been using the Promise Controller onboard my Asus A7V133 in its full use as a RAID controller. I have got my hands on 2 of the Dodgy Deskstars, the IBM DTLA-307030 75GXPs, the 30Gb 7200rpm ATA100 ones that won all those awards for being the fastest ever and then started making clunky clunky scrape scrape noises all over the world. I ran the HP firmware update on them and it said it had been a success, then I ran the IBM Drive Fitness Test and low-level formatted and ran full tests on both. They have not made a sound since, and perform very well. But I digress. I attached them to the board, both as master, both to their own channel. I ran XP from its CD and after a lot of poncing around with floppies chose one partition of 58.7Gb and had to make it NTFS (found out why a moment ago on another forum but that is another story still). I had to use the floppy that was provided with the motherboard CD (you copy the directory from the CD onto a floppy and put that in when you hit F6) so I only had the choice when prompted of either NT or 2000 driver. Obviously I chose the 2000. It installed normally (but quickly) and runs like a dream, extremely quickly and I can heartily recommend it. I remember when I ran one of these Deskstars (a 30, like these) in WinMe and 98 and I got Sandra scores around 23000. I also used to get about 17000 in 2000. I now get 32000 in XP. I would expect to get the same in 2000 with this stripe so I have effectively almost doubled my disk speeds in 2000/XP. A few things for those who have done the same: has anyone done this in 98 or ME? I would love to know Sandra speeds. Not that I would dream of going back to 9X, but just as a matter of interest. The other thing; every single time i reboot i get the little popup window that you get when you install new hardware. It says that 'Promise Filter Driver' has been stopped from loading as it would have made the system unstable. I am not worried about this as it isn't unstable, and it is in fact extremely fast, much quicker than a single drive (I used to run a single 15Gb Deskstar, same model). Anyone know which part of the Promise stuff is this 'filter driver'? Can i knobble its attempts at loading? Or get a new version? And last of all (I think): is there an XP version of the Promise driver for this mainboard? I can't find one on the Asus site, and Promise won't provide one as it is an oem onboard solution, nothing to do with them. I am guessing that would fix the 'filter driver' thing as well.... Please feel free to reply with any ideas you have, or your own results with promise onboard RAID in any version of Windoze, I would like this post to become a meeting of Promise RAID users; there doesn't seem to be a lot around for us....... cheers Papercup

i can now tell that Alecstaar is a Yank (as if i couldn't before).... He referred to a film called 'The Roadwarrior'. The film wasn't actually called that.....It was called Mad Max 2, and it was the sequel to the classic Mad Max. But Mad Max wasn't released in the States, so when they released the second over there they had to think of a name for you transatlantic bunch...so they called it after what Max was referred to by the Feral Kid (Emil Minty, if you are interested) in the film. www.madmaxmovies.com is a cool site; it turns out that the car actually lives in England now, at a museum for Film Cars (which would be worth a visit as they have tons of cool cars like James Bond's DB5, etc). The history of the car section is great, a real saga. I had Mad Max and Mad Max 2 on VHS, but when i visited Florida this a few months ago I bought the DVD of The Road Warrior, just so that it would be cool that I would be the only person with the differently-named release (as well as the title, the picture on the front is different). I haven't watched it yet, I hope it isn't cut as when they show it on TV over here they always chop a few bits out (like when the pick-up with the two men chained to the front runs into the back of the speeding juggernaut and you see the blood go up the back). I will be gutted if it is. I reckon Alecstaar knows the site; the picture of the Interceptor by the side of the road is from there, or maybe he found it elsewhere. Anyone who likes the second (or the first for you lot) should catch up with the original Mad Max. It is a great film, and shows Max when he was slightly less 'damaged goods' (and explains why he became that way). It is just as inventive in ways to kill scumbag leather-clad biker types, and personally I think that while it isn't as good a film overall (or just isn't a extreme as '2') its supporting characters are stronger. I am thinking of Bubba Zanetti, The Toecutter ('Light me, Bubba'), the Police Chief who seems to dress in leather even on his days off, and the best of the bunch, Goose. No-one makes films like the Aussies you know...... Anyway, back to work... Papercup, UK p.s. while the Black Interceptor is cool I woul still prefer one of the yellow interceptors, for just how groovy and seventies they look

yeah, i got that as well. I realised one day that i couldn't see any other machine on the lan so i turned off and swapped out the netwrk card (a 3com 3C905B) for a spare D-Link 530TX i had lying about and when i booted back in i got that same message, and it didn't go away for at least a week. In the end i think i turned off the 'but tell me about critical errors' tickbox as well. BTW, the D-Links are great, i use them in all my machines now. Papercup