captain winters 0 Posted October 9, 2000 hi there guys i have a problem or better yet my nephew had a problem His system - p2 350 - qdi mainboard ( via mobo ) - 64 mb ram ( yea i know this isnt quit enough for win2k ) - 48 speed creative cdrom drive - hp 8100 cd burner - seagate 13.4 gig harddrive - soundblaster 128 pci now here is the problem win2k installs just fine and runs fine also but whenever he turns off the computer ( through win2k offcourse ) and he turns it back on win2k will fail too boot at the splash screen of win2k ( shutdown works proparly ) the only way too get win2k going again is too clear his bios setup ( you know with the jumper thingie ) and then all of a suddon win2k will boot again This is strange and if anybody knows a sollution please do so because this is just plain weird p.s win2k is installed as an standard pc not acpi system ------------------ revence is a dish best served cold Share this post Link to post
JediBaron 0 Posted October 9, 2000 It definately sounds like a BIOS problem. Go to the manufacturer online and make sure you have the newest BIOS for your mb. Share this post Link to post
captain winters 0 Posted October 10, 2000 sorry no luck didnt help ------------------ revence is a dish best served cold Share this post Link to post
felix 0 Posted October 10, 2000 And space my friend, is very cold place. -- Kahn: Star Trek II (The Wrath of Kahn) Sorry, no advice from me but I had to finish that quote. ------------------ We must draw a line, this far and no farther. Share this post Link to post
Bursar 0 Posted October 10, 2000 Quote: sorry no luck didnt help Does this mean you already had the latest BIOS or that flashing it didn't help. Even if the latest version on the website is the same as the one you are currently using, it'd be worth re-flashing it anyway. Do you get any STOP errors when Windows boots, can you use the F8 key to go in in Safe Mode? Can you do a logged boot, and then clear the BIOS, boot into Windows and read the log to see if you can find what is failing? After you clear teh BIOS and get back into Windows, is there anything in the System Event Log? Share this post Link to post
captain winters 0 Posted October 10, 2000 hey guys i have found the problem the voodoo banshee was causing the boot problem because win2k and win98 both froze when the drivers for the voodoo banshee where loaded ------------------ revence is a dish best served cold Share this post Link to post
GHackmann 0 Posted October 10, 2000 Quote: Originally posted by captain winters:hey guys i have found the problem the voodoo banshee was causing the boot problem because win2k and win98 both froze when the drivers for the voodoo banshee where loaded A 3dfx product that causes system crashes, you say? Never heard of those! Seriously though, you might want to try making sure that the card isn't sharing IRQs with other cards. That might involve moving around or even removing some of your PCI cards, and your video card too if it's a PCI video card. Share this post Link to post
captain winters 0 Posted October 11, 2000 well i am positive that it was the creative voodoo banshee which was causing the freeze because now my nephew is using an ati rage pro 3d and his system runs like a train no lockups anymore ------------------ revence is a dish best served cold Share this post Link to post
someone_nt 0 Posted October 11, 2000 Did you try?: -ASIGN IRQ FOR VGA---->ON -EXTERNAL CACHE_-------->OFFF -PNP OS--------------->OFF Share this post Link to post
captain winters 0 Posted October 11, 2000 yes i tried that already believe me the voodoo banshee caused the problem ------------------ revence is a dish best served cold Share this post Link to post
