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Install 4-in-1's & Windows Doesn't Start

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Inept

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Hey fellas, here's the deal:

I've tried 4-in-1 versions from 4.2x to the latest ones from viaarena.com. When I install the drivers and restart my computer, Windows crashes at the splash screen with the progress bar. No version of drivers seems to fix this problem. My setup is as follows:

MSI KT3 Ultra2 w/XP1600+ at 166x10 and 512MB PC2700
Windows 2000 Professional w/SP3 and DX8.1b
GeForce4 TI4200 w/Detonator 40.72.

Now, I've been having all manner of problems since switching to this mobo! I can't get my Direct3D working, so I start to play around with my drivers and uninstalling (with DirectX Buster) and reinstalling DX. Now I can't even install the 4-in-1's. This problem has survived 2 formats. I'm wondering whether the problem is SP3 for Win2K or perhaps the mobo? Those are really the only two things that have changed recently. I never had problems with this combination of drivers on my old setup which was otherwise the same but I was using SP2 and another mobo. I don't have any problems except the ones described, and these problems occur at all speeds including stock, etc.

I need some help, please!
 
Welcome to AnandTech, Inept🙂

You say you've tried with a fresh install? Were you OC'ing at the same time? If you were, reset your mobo back to stock settings, if your mobo has a newer bios I'd load it, re-format, do a fresh install of win2k, load the latest via 4-in-1's, then sp2, then your video drivers, then the rest of your device drivers with your sound card being last. Reboot in between each driver install. If all goes well, then try updating to sp3 or stay at sp2 ( I've had 2 comps refuse to run under 3, so I backed them off to sp2 and made sure that all the security patches were downloaded and installed ).
 
Thanky Rusty. Turns out it was the overclock. I had the board at 166MHz (but it's got a 1/5 divider...) to get PC2700 bandwidth out of my RAM instead of PC2100. Turns out the 4-in-1's weren't too happy with it, so I scaled it back to 133, started the system, restarted and popped it back up to 166MHz. Now everything's going well, SP3 included 🙂
 
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