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Strangest Win2K lockup ever

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Phantronius

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Wow, im totally out of ideas at this point. I"ve got a clients machine thats a P3 Micron Millenia that im trying to rebuild. I"ve already gotten her data off and I wanna blow the trashed win98 install with a fresh Win2k install copy. The problem is after I boot to the CD and it caches the startup files, it just locks up at the point where it ask for user input on where to go from there. No matter what I hit on keyboard, nothing happens, it just sits there.

Heres what i've done so far to no avail:

1. Changed dual optical drives jumper settings
2. Replaced with newer CD drive
3. Swapped RAM and DIMM slots
4. Try different HDD
5. Cleared CMOS
6. Tried bootable XP Pro cd
7. Changed keyboards both PS2 and USB
8. Replaced cables with 80pin UDMA cables.
9. Taken out all expansion cards

None of these has enabled me to continue with the install. Arrrrrrrrrgh!! Im totally out of ideas, anyone gotta a clue where to go from here?
 
Originally posted by: Phantronius
Wow, im totally out of ideas at this point. I"ve got a clients machine thats a P3 Micron Millenia that im trying to rebuild. I"ve already gotten her data off and I wanna blow the trashed win98 install with a fresh Win2k install copy. The problem is after I boot to the CD and it caches the startup files, it just locks up at the point where it ask for user input on where to go from there. No matter what I hit on keyboard, nothing happens, it just sits there.

Heres what i've done so far to no avail:

1. Changed dual optical drives jumper settings
2. Replaced with newer CD drive
3. Swapped RAM and DIMM slots
4. Try different HDD
5. Cleared CMOS
6. Tried bootable XP Pro cd
7. Changed keyboards both PS2 and USB
8. Replaced cables with 80pin UDMA cables.
9. Taken out all expansion cards

None of these has enabled me to continue with the install. Arrrrrrrrrgh!! Im totally out of ideas, anyone gotta a clue where to go from here?
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Did you try making a bootable Memtest86 floppy/CD? If that won't pass, then you have low-level problems with the MB/CPU/RAM (won't tell you which, but at least that would let you know it's a hardware problem).
 
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