Windows 2000 Professional BSOD/reboots at the drop of a hat!

[Pikey 0]

Ok, a popular topic this one I know, but Windows 2000 Pro just keeps crashing! I suspect it doesn't like my hardware (hell, I don't greatly like my hardware) but all devices comply with the HCL except for one unknown quantity: the motherboard.

First off, it installed fine, detected and installed all hardware; great, no probs. About 30 minutes into a virgin Win2000 session and BANG!, the computer rebooted. This happened several more times before I disabled the auto-reboot option and was rewarded instead with the BSOD familiar to all.

This yielded the following bugcheck info:

Stop 0x0000000A or IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL blah blah blah....However this was one Stop message amongst others including good old Stop 0x00000050 PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA and so on. It also generates errors frequently whilst using Internet Explorer, Event Viewer has reported errors with "Server" and "Perfctrs" amongst others, and all in all things are in a bloody mess.

System specs are as follows:

Pentium II 350

128MB PC100 SDRAM

SiS 6326 AGP Video

SoundBlaster PCI 128

10.2GB Maxtor HDD and....(oh dear) a generic PCChips M747 systemboard with an outdated BIOS that I believe to be the culprit. This came with an onboard SoundPro that quickly died hence the 128. However everything apart from said board is on the Win2000 HCL, and by outdated I mean the board only supports APM, which is currently disabled under Win2000.

Soooo, Windows 2000 is a terrific OS but simply too volatile to use realistically, but I want to nail the culprit. This exact same system configuration presented no trouble at all under the previous Windows 98 installation. Oh, and by the way, this was a clean install onto a freshly formatted disk.

Another curio. Win2000 prompts a lot of disk activity when it boots - it takes about 5 minutes to fully settle down from the desktop. I installed it onto my old Seagate drive and it was nowhere near as active. It also seemed a lot stabler, but I haven't tested this installation to any great extent.

Any ideas about the Stop messages/BIOS/motherboard etc?

Help!

[Pikey 0]

I presume then that I am beyond redemption here!

Oh well....Windows 2000 I hereby consign you to the earth, encased in your jewel case shroud, ashes to ashes etc.

Back to Windows 98 for me then!

[Fozz 0]

Hey there.

I just saw your post and your resigned followup!

I know how you feel...I love 2000 and it just used to crap out on me all the time.

 

The reason I am mailing you is to get you to check out this post: http://www.ntcompatible.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/002595.html

 

In it is explains that a lot of Win2K probs seem to be related to a bad VIA driver.

Now, I am not sure if your "dodgy" mobo has a VIA chip...but if so then check his out!

I installed this update and it has helped.

Take care!

 

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Asus K7V - Athlon 750 (not o/c'd), CL TNT2U, SBLive.

[theefool 0]

It seems this is the be all end all post that you are pasting here. Either that, or I'm missing something here.