pugnex 0 Posted October 22, 2000 My system is a k6-2 400, 64mg ram, biostar motherboard based on ali chipset, viper 770, mx300 soundcard and an old generic lan card. I have tried installing by booting the cd, it loads all the drivers it needs and such but it just hard locks when it says setup is starting windows 2000. I even tried installing win98, installing win2k as an upgrade, it verifies that all my hardware is supported, and locks up in the exact same place!!!! HELP! I wanna use this as a Demise or UT server! Share this post Link to post
Ge0ph 0 Posted October 22, 2000 Is it locked up or are you just not waiting long enough? On one install I did it took almost 20 minutes to get past that point, and that was on a low memory machine like yours. Try it again and this time just walk away for a while (a long while). Share this post Link to post
pugnex 0 Posted October 22, 2000 When I tried pushing the power button nothing happened, so I assumed it locked up. Share this post Link to post
DosFreak 2 Posted October 23, 2000 Have you installed the latest bios? Installed using Non-ACPI? Taken out all hardware? Share this post Link to post
pugnex 0 Posted October 23, 2000 Yes it does have the latest bios. I did not try removing any of the hardware. I received the machine from my dad who previously had win2k on it, but it would not boot for some reason, it would just go to a black screen and sit there forever, so I formatted to install again, and it won't install. I don't get it. I think i'll just take the ram from that machine and put it in mine Share this post Link to post
DosFreak 2 Posted October 23, 2000 It's probably the AGP driver. Install again and when it gets to the blank screen, reboot. Press F8 when it tells ya to and boot into safe mode. If VGA mode pops up come back and I'll tell ya what to do next. Share this post Link to post
Arin 0 Posted October 23, 2000 I have the same exact problem. I also have a biostar mobo. I never found a solution after months and months and months of trying. The only temp solution for me was to put my hd in another persons computer, install windows, and then when it wants you to restart for the first time, put your hd back in your machine with the win2k cd in your drive and everything from there on will work. I think it is some problem that biostar had because they will not update their mobos bios and that really ticks me off! Best bet is to try and sell your mobo, btw, mine is for sale. ------------------ Athalon 500 196mb Ram 3D prophet ddr-dvi geforce SB Live! sound card. biostar m7mka mobo 20 gig maxtor and 3.5 gig fireball 32x tosheba, and adaptec scsi mitsuia cdr 2x4x ms internet keyboard pro ms intellimouse explorer 640k DSL on wintell modem with linksys dsl router 100mbit dlink nic w/wol Share this post Link to post
