I have been banging my head (no blood yet) agianst the wall trying to install Windows 2000 Professional on my newly constructed Pentium 4 system based on the Asus P4T motherboard. I have extensive experience with P/PII/PIII boards and Win2K installation, but this one has me semi-stumped.
Hardware:
Asus P4T motherboard
(4) PC800 128 MB RDRAM
1.7 GHz P4 CPU
Maxtor 60 GB 7200 RPM UDMA-100 hard drive on primary UDMA-100 channel as master-only.
Kenwood CD-ROM on secondary IDE channel as master-only.
Procedure to replicate problem:
Windows 2000 CD-ROM in the Kenwood drive. Set system to boot from CD. System boots from CD successfully, creates hard drive partition, copies initial boot files to hard drive, reboots automatically - then presents error:
Stop: c000026c Unknown Hard Error
*blah blah blah Microsoft stop screen lingo goes here*
Any ideas? I ended up replacing the IDE drive, replacing the cable, swapping the drive to the secondary IDE channel - all same result. Windows 98 SE installed just fine on the system, but I want and need Windows 2000. I ended up sticking in an Adaptec 2940 and a 18.2G Barracuda UWSCSI drive, disconnected the IDE drive, and voila - Windows 2000 installed perfectly.
Greg
Hardware:
Asus P4T motherboard
(4) PC800 128 MB RDRAM
1.7 GHz P4 CPU
Maxtor 60 GB 7200 RPM UDMA-100 hard drive on primary UDMA-100 channel as master-only.
Kenwood CD-ROM on secondary IDE channel as master-only.
Procedure to replicate problem:
Windows 2000 CD-ROM in the Kenwood drive. Set system to boot from CD. System boots from CD successfully, creates hard drive partition, copies initial boot files to hard drive, reboots automatically - then presents error:
Stop: c000026c Unknown Hard Error
*blah blah blah Microsoft stop screen lingo goes here*
Any ideas? I ended up replacing the IDE drive, replacing the cable, swapping the drive to the secondary IDE channel - all same result. Windows 98 SE installed just fine on the system, but I want and need Windows 2000. I ended up sticking in an Adaptec 2940 and a 18.2G Barracuda UWSCSI drive, disconnected the IDE drive, and voila - Windows 2000 installed perfectly.
Greg
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