I sort of feel like a jerk for asking for help without contributing to this forum before, but I'm truly at wits end with this problem. I've been running a very solid setup for the past few years that includes an Athlon 2500+ (Barton), Asus A7N8X Deluxe, 1GB Corsair RAM, Chaintech GeForce FX5200, and a couple WD IDE drives. Recently I decided I need more HDD space, so I purchased a WD 160GB SATA drive from Newegg to act as my system drive.
I had to enable the SATA controller via the jumper on the motherboard, as I had never used it before. Used the latest SATA driver from Asus' website with the Windows 2000 install (F6 and whatnot). Everything seemed to be going fine, Win2k installed fine. Problems abound! After getting into Windows and installing device drivers I met the Beelzebub of BSODs, the Windows Stop error (0x0000000A or IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL), upon restarting (just after the Windows logo bootup screen with the scrolling bar).
Now, after reinstalling Win2k twice, installing WinXP twice, and even trying a friend's copy of Win2k3 Server (as well as updating my BIOS to 1008, trying several different versions each of the nForce2/GeForce/SATA drivers in different combinations), I've realized that my video card drivers are the ones that are sparking the problems. Windows will operate fine lacking the GeForce drivers and with every other device driver installed (aside from the fact that I'm not using any hardware accelerated video). But the restart after the video drivers are installed, I start getting The Stop Error and can't get back into Windows without booting to safe mode or using the "Use the Last Best Known Config" option.
Now, I've tried disabling every integrated device in my BIOS but my USB controller and I still get the error, so I don't believe it's an IRQ issue, despite the IRQL_NOT... in the error message. I've resat the video card several times, so I don't believe that's the problem. About the only tactics I have yet to try are installing a different video card (not available to me at the moment), trying the SATA/video card in another computer (also not available), or booting back into Windows with my IDE drives and SATA disabled. The latter I'm 90% positive will work (just because I feel there's a conflict between the SATA and video), but is an unacceptable final solution since my SATA drive will have gone to waste.
Sorry for the book and the multiple parenthesis (habit), but there you have it. Any help or insight would obviously be greatly appreciated.
I had to enable the SATA controller via the jumper on the motherboard, as I had never used it before. Used the latest SATA driver from Asus' website with the Windows 2000 install (F6 and whatnot). Everything seemed to be going fine, Win2k installed fine. Problems abound! After getting into Windows and installing device drivers I met the Beelzebub of BSODs, the Windows Stop error (0x0000000A or IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL), upon restarting (just after the Windows logo bootup screen with the scrolling bar).
Now, after reinstalling Win2k twice, installing WinXP twice, and even trying a friend's copy of Win2k3 Server (as well as updating my BIOS to 1008, trying several different versions each of the nForce2/GeForce/SATA drivers in different combinations), I've realized that my video card drivers are the ones that are sparking the problems. Windows will operate fine lacking the GeForce drivers and with every other device driver installed (aside from the fact that I'm not using any hardware accelerated video). But the restart after the video drivers are installed, I start getting The Stop Error and can't get back into Windows without booting to safe mode or using the "Use the Last Best Known Config" option.
Now, I've tried disabling every integrated device in my BIOS but my USB controller and I still get the error, so I don't believe it's an IRQ issue, despite the IRQL_NOT... in the error message. I've resat the video card several times, so I don't believe that's the problem. About the only tactics I have yet to try are installing a different video card (not available to me at the moment), trying the SATA/video card in another computer (also not available), or booting back into Windows with my IDE drives and SATA disabled. The latter I'm 90% positive will work (just because I feel there's a conflict between the SATA and video), but is an unacceptable final solution since my SATA drive will have gone to waste.
Sorry for the book and the multiple parenthesis (habit), but there you have it. Any help or insight would obviously be greatly appreciated.
Are there any PCI cards in the system at all? If so, what are they. Also, what power supply brand & model do you have?
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