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Isolating driver conflicts in W2K...help!

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ST4RCUTTER

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Hey guys,

You know how the drill goes...sell your old computer to your friend and you become "customer support". Anyway, there's a driver conflict happening with my friends computer. I sold him an Epox 8KT2A (KT133) mobo and when he chooses restart or shutdown from the start options the computer will hang with a blinking cursor. It's as if a piece of hardware is not responding to the system and "releasing" the system resources to the BIOS for reboot. If I start up in safe mode, and restart, it reboots like a champ. There are no conflicts, and ACPI has been both enabled and disabled to no avail. I know in 98 there was a way to confirm each driver as you boot. Is there a way to do this in W2K? I need to track down what could be causing the issue....thanks!
 
Does it shutdown okay? Or is it only when restarting? Flash the bios with the latest version. If that doesn't work, pull all the non-essential cards (everything but the video card) and try again. If it works, you know it's a problem with one of your cards. Plug them in one at a time, and isolate the problem.

-shane
 
No, shut down and restart will only result in a hang with a blinking cursor top left. The system functions fine otherwise. Do I really need to pull all the cards if I know it will restart when none of the drivers are loaded? In otherwords, if I know a loaded driver conflict is causing the hang, why not just try to not load those drivers...now you see the gist of my post. 😀
 
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