I?m not sure why, I?m speculating it had something to do with the USB drivers IomegaWare installed on my system for my USB Powered Zip 250.
After installing the IomegaWare drivers the system (IDE & USB) began to run slow, a significant slowdown in read/write speeds. It was strange because the IDE also slowed down (Highpoint RAID0).
So I restarted because I figured the system needed to be restarted after the drivers were installed. It rebooted and I was just about to inter the Win2k desktop, that?s when I encounter a blue screen. My first reaction was in disbelief, because I?ve honestly never seen a blue screen in Win2k in over two years (or more)! I tried a few more times (about 5-7) to get into Win2k.
I then tried using the F8 option; I went in via safe mode. When I finally got in I uninstalled Active Disk & some other Iomega application services, however I did not uninstall the Iomega drivers.
When I rebooted, I was able to get back into windows 2000 without any blue screens. Everything seemed ok, however I still knew something was wrong, things didn?t seem quite right, the system still felt slower, and very finicky. It seem to reject all my usual applications like Nero 5.5, PowerDVD etc?
Then without warning; the system restarted. When booting back up it would take my all the way to the windows 2000 logo screen, hang for about 2 minutes, then restart again. Again I tried via safe mode and everything, but nothing worked. Uninstalled the Iomega drivers this time, rebooted but same thing would happen when I tried to go in the normal way. I would be greeted with a blue screen and reboot about a second later.
So I decided I would need to reformat, to started from scratch. When I finally got win2k installed, and everything running, with the new install. I rebooted, and to my surprise, another blue screen. Again, I was in disbelief. So finally I said the HPT374 controller/drivers for my High Point RAID0 setup must have been affected some how. So I deleted the array, and redid it from starch. Installed windows again, and this time everything worked just fine. Ran some Sandra, and my scores were the same as my original install, before I installed IomegaWare.
To be totally honest the only reason why I installed IW in the first place was to have an Zip icon instead of a Win2k default HD icon, so my wife would get confused and click on my flash memory icon all the time.
I was thinking of installing the win2k drivers only, and not iomegaware, but I don?t have the balls to do it. I?m still trying to get over this little episode.
After installing the IomegaWare drivers the system (IDE & USB) began to run slow, a significant slowdown in read/write speeds. It was strange because the IDE also slowed down (Highpoint RAID0).
So I restarted because I figured the system needed to be restarted after the drivers were installed. It rebooted and I was just about to inter the Win2k desktop, that?s when I encounter a blue screen. My first reaction was in disbelief, because I?ve honestly never seen a blue screen in Win2k in over two years (or more)! I tried a few more times (about 5-7) to get into Win2k.
I then tried using the F8 option; I went in via safe mode. When I finally got in I uninstalled Active Disk & some other Iomega application services, however I did not uninstall the Iomega drivers.
When I rebooted, I was able to get back into windows 2000 without any blue screens. Everything seemed ok, however I still knew something was wrong, things didn?t seem quite right, the system still felt slower, and very finicky. It seem to reject all my usual applications like Nero 5.5, PowerDVD etc?
Then without warning; the system restarted. When booting back up it would take my all the way to the windows 2000 logo screen, hang for about 2 minutes, then restart again. Again I tried via safe mode and everything, but nothing worked. Uninstalled the Iomega drivers this time, rebooted but same thing would happen when I tried to go in the normal way. I would be greeted with a blue screen and reboot about a second later.
So I decided I would need to reformat, to started from scratch. When I finally got win2k installed, and everything running, with the new install. I rebooted, and to my surprise, another blue screen. Again, I was in disbelief. So finally I said the HPT374 controller/drivers for my High Point RAID0 setup must have been affected some how. So I deleted the array, and redid it from starch. Installed windows again, and this time everything worked just fine. Ran some Sandra, and my scores were the same as my original install, before I installed IomegaWare.
To be totally honest the only reason why I installed IW in the first place was to have an Zip icon instead of a Win2k default HD icon, so my wife would get confused and click on my flash memory icon all the time.
I was thinking of installing the win2k drivers only, and not iomegaware, but I don?t have the balls to do it. I?m still trying to get over this little episode.
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