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Nforce4, SATA, and Win2000 Problem

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jeff2713

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I just upgraded from an IBM PATA IDE 15GB Hard drive to a Samsung SATA 80GB. I am reinstalling Windows 2000 using both the RAID and the Nvidia Storage Solution Drivers on a floppy that was copied from Nvidia's driver set.

I am able to partition and format the drive, copy the files over, and setup Windows 2000 without any stability problems. Once I commit a final reboot to finalize installation and Windows 2000 gets to the screen where it asks me if I want users that logon to the computer to do so with their own password, etc, within 10 seconds of this session, the computer reboots. It will do this consistently within 10 seconds of each startup and I can't go any further. I can barely attempt to login to Windows. The only new hardware is the SATA 80G drive so I am narrowing the problems down to SATA related issues...even though I had another SATA drive but not as my primary.

Am I using old drivers (using motherboard manufacturer's set) or using wrong settings in my BIOS? (Checked but could not find anything). I have a Chaintech VNF4 (nForce4 chipset), AMD64 3000+, Leadtek Geforce 6600, Samsung SATA 80G, Samsung SATA 160G.
 
have you tried safemode? if it reboots after 10 secs in safemode then you can narrow it down to a hardware problem.

have you tried knoppix? if it fails to load knoppix, then it could be a windows 2000 problem - in which case i'd try an XP install and see what happens.

i know windows2000 by default is set to "automatically reboot on system failure" - you might also want to check your Event Viewer and see if theres anything funny in it (this is assuming you're able to boot in safe mode)

hope that helps, cheers

 
I haven't tried safemode, knoppix, or event viewer. I guess I'm a noobie on the last two. What's the name of executable for event viewer? I'll try all of your suggestions and see what happens.
 
i'm not sure what the name of the executable for Event Viewer is, however you can access it from Control Panel -> Admin Tools -> Event Viewer
 
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