viper 0 Posted August 31, 1999 Hello everybody, I tried to install W2000 Beta3 2000 on my PC. I have a Tyan 1590S (VIA),SB AWE64, ELSA III, 128 MB, 8 GB - HD. After the installation I receive the message [uNACCESSABLE BOOT DEVICE.......]...... . I have the latest BIOS. But when I disconnect the CD-ROM W2000 load & works fine. I tested 6 different CD-ROM but it was always the same. Share this post Link to post
euankirkhope 0 Posted August 31, 1999 There are known problems with Via MP3 and UDMA66 so check with your motherboard manufacturer for a bios update to either fix or disable it. It is most likely the recent bios updates have enabled ATA66 on the Via chipset. Personally, I have a via mp3 board, but no such problems, except i have to take everything out the computer because something hangs it during setup. However after installing w2k and putting everything back in everything’s relatively fine. In your case first disable Ultra DMA (temporally) and never put other devices on the same IDE channel if UDMA is enabled (bad experiences), also if you have lilo from linux installed get rid of it by doing from dos "fdisk /mbr". This will remove the NT boot manager also, so you'll have to reinstall, or use bootpart to fix it... www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm Good luck! [This message has been edited by euankirkhope (edited August 31, 1999).] Share this post Link to post
