Problem on old Micronics boards

[MisterPresident]

I have two Micronics (Micron pulls) boards, from the Pentium Pro era. One runs a socket 8 Pentium Pro 200Mhz, the other runs a Socket 7 Pentium MMX 200Mhz. I had a hard drive with Win2k installed already, and wanted to test this machine, so I try to boot up. It is going along fine (2mb s3 OK, 32 MB RAM OK, etc), but after it goes through the set of self tests, it seems to freeze up. I know the system booted with Win95 on it, but it just stops with Win2k. I looked in the BIOS, and the only option was to enable plug and play operating systems. Now my question is, am I simply doing something wrong, is the hardware messed, or is there some OS restriction on the board?

 

[lsman]

win2K call for 64MB memory min.Text

 

[MisterPresident]

The board had 2 sticks of EDO 32 Mb snapped in, and it gets 64 mb in self test too. I am really lost on this one. Anyone have a clue?

 

[mindless1]

What is making you think you can just randomly switch WinNT-based OS to a different motherboard?

In general, you can't, unlike Win9x.

 

[MisterPresident]

Thanks for the tip mindless, I'll try wiping the drive and starting from scratch. Hope it helps!