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installing windows 2000 on a k7tpro2a

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opium

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The problem is whenever I try to do a clean install of windows it loads the drivers and when "starting windows..." i get a session5_initialization_failed stop error. I'm thinking its because of the ata 100, I tried disabeling udma in the bios and put all drives to pio4 but still no luck. I know the motherboard works because I have another drive with windows already loaded using a k7tpro and it runs fine, I want the do a clean install on the new faster drive because i need the older drive.
I searched the site and found some stuf on orangedelta but there is nothing on a clean install.
One more thing should I partition and format the drive before I install win2000 or let it do it itself, cause I tried both ways.

any ideas

thanks
 
that doesnt realy help bt thanks.

anone know what the message "unknow flash type" means, this apears right after the info screen at boot up (just before windows is suposed to begin loading)?
 
How about this question, should I partition and format the drive using win 98 startup disk and then install win2k or delete all partitions and let win2k partition the drive if thats possible?
thanks
 
I received the same error message when I changed my bios to the overclockers bios. I never did figure out why. I suspect it may have been a poor bios flash. I immediately went back to bios 2.0 and the problem disappeared.
 
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