Does anyone visit Highly Technical?

[MichaelD]

Shameless, but I need help...this'll get locked quick....

 

[CSoup]

That question you have is not a HT type question. GH is the place.

128 meg sticks come in both double and single sided versions.
Interleaving possibilities will depend on the arrangement of the memory since different boards have a different number of banks on a side.

 

[PsychoAndy]

only when i'm going to OT from HD and accidentally scroll to the wrong forum

 

[CSoup]

can your gf boot into the system even with these errors? sound like you might be getting corrupted system files. She is not by any chance running a promise controller is she?

 

[MichaelD]

THANK YOU! It was in GH...nobody responded, so I moved it...and nobody responded.

The HD is a single HD on the HPT370 RAID controller. It's a fresh install of W2K. It installs and as long as you "restart" as opposed to "shutdown" and then hit power, it's fine. I get a System32/config/..... error. BSOD. I'm wondering if it's b/c I have 4-way enabled.

 

[Shack70]

no

 

[nirgis]

I visit HT all the time, but do not post often

 

[MichaelD]

*Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh* Helllooooo? I need the innnnnnnnnfo....

 

[CSoup]

<< THANK YOU! It was in GH...nobody responded, so I moved it...and nobody responded.

The HD is a single HD on the HPT370 RAID controller. It's a fresh install of W2K. It installs and as long as you "restart" as opposed to "shutdown" and then hit power, it's fine. I get a System32/config/..... error. BSOD. I'm wondering if it's b/c I have 4-way enabled. >>



Ok, I think I know what it is. I don't think it is your memory. I have never used a highpoint controller, but believe they suffer from the same problem as the promise controllers. There is a bug that causes a problem with these controllers under win2k. What happens is that when you shutdown, all the data is not flushed to the harddisk before the power is turned off. The result is corrupted system files. Supposedly this was fixed by in SP2. I would recommend upgrading to SP2 and then installing the latest highpoint drivers. You might have to use the system for a while to see if it is fixed since the corruption does not happen on all shutdowns. Another solution is to use the onboard IDE controllers instead.

 

[Yzzim]

I visit HT sometimes. It's an interesting read, though I don't understand most of it.

 

[MichaelD]

Thanks very much, CSoup. My version of W2K is SP2. I installed W2K successfully (three times) on my old system, which is the exact same mobo...but w/a different bios though.

Isn't there some kind of HD latency patch....I need to go look over at Via. Thanks. Anything else you can contribute is greatly appreciated!

 

[CSoup]

<< Thanks very much, CSoup. My version of W2K is SP2. I installed W2K successfully (three times) on my old system, which is the exact same mobo...but w/a different bios though.

Isn't there some kind of HD latency patch....I need to go look over at Via. Thanks. Anything else you can contribute is greatly appreciated! >>



If you are not using raid then try putting the drive on the chipset's IDE port and reinstalling windows and see if that works. That is what I ended up doing on my system. Now I just have my CD drive hooked up to the promise controller. My hard drive is placed on the builtin IDE controller and has worked fine since. I used to have to reinstall w2k every week or so.

Also, if your system is the same mobo and works then try getting both systems as similar as possible (same bios, and drivers) maybe that will work also. But I think the easiest route if you are not using the raid is to just use the VIA IDE instead of the highpoint one.

 

[MichaelD]

Yeah, but there's also a CDR and a CDRW that I want to keep on separate channels for obvious reasons. How about this: install W2K with the HD on the regualr IDE channel. Once its up and running, just move the HD to the HPT controller?

 

[CSoup]

<< Yeah, but there's also a CDR and a CDRW that I want to keep on separate channels for obvious reasons. How about this: install W2K with the HD on the regualr IDE channel. Once its up and running, just move the HD to the HPT controller? >>



The corruption on shutdown happens when the drive is on the HPT controller, so that would not help if that is the problem. Is your problem that you can't even install w2k or is it that it will install, but sometimes gets messed up after it is shutdown?

If it is a can't install problem then that is due to you not having the drivers for the hpt controller during installation. What you need to do in this case is to make a driver disk. It should have an oem.inf file in it then during the w2k install there should be a message like press f6 if you have a scsi controller or something like that. You need to press that key and it should later ask for the driver disk.

Anyways, you have 4 channels, so I don't see a problem with putting the HD on the primary internal IDE port. You can still put the CDR and CDRW on different channels.

 

[MichaelD]

W2K installs. It accepts the HPT drivers (hit F6) just fine. It's RESTARTING the PC after W2K is loaded that is the problem.

It's got to be a bios or a memory thing...I have the same mobo, with the same HDs on the same controller. I will take the system down to one stick of memory and the video card tonight. It's gonna be a long night. Thanks for your help.

 

[CSoup]

Ok, I guess the problem I am describing is different. It only happens if you shutdown the computer not restart. Also, it does not happen right after the install, but after a few days of use. It has the same symptom though. When you turn the machine on after the corruption happens, you get a message
systemroot\winnt\system32\config\system\... can't be found or is corrupted.
Apparently the problem still has not been fixed by microsoft or the raid controller people fully as some people using XP also report the problem.

One other variable you might want to look at is that the highpoint bios version and driver versions are tied together and mixing versions may also cause problems.

 

[MichaelD]

I'm flashing the bios to a 11 Nov version that includes the latest highpoint drivers....I wonder how to load them come W2K install time, though?

 

[Keego]

I never visit HT. it strains my IQ.