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Weird w2k problem

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jmc

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When I cold boot w2k from being shut down it boots up and there is no keyboard or mouse. I press the shutdown button and it shuts down. If I boot up and enter win98se first and then restart(without shutdown) and enter w2k everything works perfectly. The only clue I have is I installed w2k before with acpi disabled and it worked perfectly. This install it was enabled. Other than that there is no difference in this install. Could this be causing this problem? If so, how do I get acpi out of w2k? It will not boot if I try to disable it now. I know I can do a repair install but would love to find a way without doing that. Any ideas? thanks


abit bh6,256 ram,pIII 600,ide cdrw,dvd,zip drive, usr pci 56k modem,100/10 lan card,AIW agp vid card,promise ata 100 controller,2 hardrives 18 gig each on the controller, win98se,me,w2k,dos 6.2 dual boot(quad boot) using system commander.
 
Are your mouse and keyboard usb or ps2. Also do you have the most recent service pack for Win2k?
 
Mouse and keboard are ps2. Sp2 is installed. I even flashed the abit bios to
the latest release. The only thing I can think of is its something to do
with abit boards acpi. Is there a way to disable acpi in w2k without doing a
repair? Think this would solve the problem. Thanks
 
Article ID: Q197055 microsoft

If you want to disable ACPI support after Windows 2000 is installed, you must reinstall Windows 2000 with APCI disabled in the computer's BIOS. Because numerous changes are made to the registry and system files, an upgrade installation does not work.

I hope its something else
JMC
 
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