Help! Windows 2000 install problem, very lost?

[bwb]

Hi guys, i am having a very weird problem I could use some help on
I wiped my hard drives out in order to reinstall everything with a blank slate. Now that I am trying to install it freezes when trying to detect hardware (windows 2000 when detecting hardware and windows me when booting the first time when it detects everything) but I have tried all sorts of different things like taking out everything, messing with bios settings etc, nothing is working.

The system:
AMD 1.2Ghz
Abit KT7a
First hard disk IBM 60GXP
Two other hard disks, matrox 14GB each
USB mouse
keyboard
Hauppauge TV card pci
Real Hollywood DVD card
10/100 network card
768MB of memory
Geforce 3 Visiontek graphics card

any ideas? I don't know what it could be!

thanks, ben

ps, it also seems to freeze during the part in windows 2000 when its converting the disk to ntfs?

 

[Nosferatu]

Is the install disk ok? Meaning scratches and stuff....
Did you try copying the I386 folder to the hard drive and installing it by that method instead of the cdrom?

 

[bwb]

Is the install disk ok? Meaning scratches and stuff....
Did you try copying the I386 folder to the hard drive and installing it by that method instead of the cdrom?

Ya its good, ive been using it for about a month for just mp3, but since its faster i decided to install the system files on it. Ya I tried that and had the same problem.

 

[Pederv]

Have you tried with one stick of memory? It's possible you have a bad stick.

 

[bwb]

ya i tried one stick i knew was good, the other two are out of another machine and they worked fine too in that one so i dont think that is the problem.

 

[obenton]

Likely hardware since it happens with two OSes. Check hard drive integrity. Sometimes problems with ATA66 controller - try on standard IDE33.

 

[sonar]

Back to basics. Install with just the needed Hardware, Muose,keyboard, 1 hard drive and CD-ROM and ReFdisk and Reformat the drive. Also double check the jumpers on the drive. If all goes well then add the Hardware 1 piece at a time and let W2K detect them, I am sure You will know when you get to the piece that is affecting the OS. Also set all your bios settings to default.

 

[bozo1]

What sonar said. I've seen similar problems when it tries to detect TV cards.