W2K locks up

[rb56]

Hi everyone, been gone for a while (I hate how work gets in the way all the time). Any way wanted to bump this back up to see if anyone had any other ideas. If I can't get W2K stable I guess I'll format and try again. I know it's got to be something simple that I'm missing here. Figured that I'd ghost 98SE back on C to get rid of the boot files and such and maybe try to upgrade it to W2K. I'd really like to dual boot so help me out if you can.

Thanks,
rb56

 

[Siva]

If you can get SP1 installed it might fix some of your stablity problems. That thing with IE and try again went away when I installed SP1, although updating IE will do the same thing. IRQ sharing shouldn't be a problem, if it reports no conflicts than there aren't any, its that simple.

 

[rb56]

I did get SP1 installed finally but have the same problems it still just locks up for not reasons that I can figure. I can get on line for a few min. and it will lock or have device manager open and it will lock up.

 

[mitaiwan82]

have you tried the newest 4in1 (4.29)from www.viahardware.com?

 

[Tripleshot]

Is your hardware on the HCL? If not,that will give you fits until you load correct drivers or replace the hardware. Further,are you dual booting,or have you formatted in NTFS? If you are FAT32 then you may experience problems with your hardware.

Try reinstalling the OS with the cdrom to fix the bungled DLL files and associations. In our lab, we do this every day. When you have have NTOSKRNL problems,you are screwed at the kernal level and that must be fixed.Otherwise lock ups are inevitable. Stability is paramount for win2k. Let win2k do its thing and don't try and hurry things along. It does things in its own time for a reason.

Good luck.