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Help: 2000 freezing before "Starting Windows..." and in 2000 Setup

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Athlon4all

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I just flashed a BIOS that was for the retail version of MSI's MS-5185 (Super7), when I was using a OEM version of the mobo. Here's what's going on. The flash was successful, but at first when I was booting Windows 2000 I kept on getting a BSOD (KMODE_EXCEPTION_HANDLED), but after it doing that twice, it now isn't even getting to where it says "Starting Windows...", it's just a black screen (It's not a dual boot system so I don't press enter to select 2000). So I decided to start re-installation of 2000, but it's freezing now. It will get past "Setup is detecting your hardware...." and even get past where it says "Press F6 to load a SCSI or RAID driver" but then it freezes before it starts loading the drivers. Any suggestions. I've disabled ACPI in the BIOS, I've tried it with PnP OS on Yes and No. And no luck. Any suggestions? I'm gonna try going through the Hardware Detection phase of 98 Setup and if it fails then I'll just reflash to the BIOS that came with the board. Thanks for any suggestions!
 
Have you tried doing a step-wise start up?

If you can find a program in the start up that is causing the crash using stepwise, the next time you boot and it asks ,'Load <such and such> [y/n]? hit N of course and see if you can bypass that program. This also identifies the culprit program if it is in your Autoexec listings.

GL

 
Make sure that all of your bios setting are set to default, also might want to try turning off the internal and external caches. I know that will make the machine extremely slow but it may get you past the point you are at now.
 
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