WIN 2000 problem ***need help desperately***

[stingbandel]

Hi, I am having problem with my Win 2000. It's always restarting by itself before it even goes to the first page. I mean the desktop page. I don't now what's wrong. After the white screen that has the Win 2000 Prof. logo, it goes back to the black screen where the first time the computer starts. I've tried to repair it but I don't have any luck. I am using Win 2000 Proffesional. Does anybody can help me? I really need help here. Thanks in advance for the help. I really appreciate it.

Darno

 

[Wizkid]

Did you just upgrade any hardware / software? Sounds like it could be a problem with the video card drivers...

Try this: at the very beginning of the boot process, where the WHITE bar starts to go across the screen it will say something like "Press F8 for ...". Press F8 and choose Safe Mode... then see if it will let you in. If so, look for problems such as devices that are improperly installed, maybe try setting the video card driver to standard VGA.

 

[stingbandel]

yes, I upgrade adaptec direct cd and after that I got this thing. I tried the safe mode but it didn't work. Any other ideas???

Thanks

 

[konichiwa]

Try uninstalling EZCD if you can, that has some kinks in Windows 2000.

 

[stingbandel]

I can't. It doesn't even want to go to the first page. It's always rebooting to the black screen like the first time we start our computer. Any other suggestion??? Thanks

 

[Psychoholic]

Press F8 when booting then choose Last Known Good Configuration.

Only the latest version of Easy CD Creator and Direct CD work under W2K without problems. Versions 4.02 and 3.01 respectively, you will have to apply some patches found on their website to get to the current versions from 4.0 and 3.0.

http://www.adaptec.com/support/files/cdrupdates.html

 

[stingbandel]

that's the problem. After patching the file I got this problem. I can't get to anything. I've tried everything but not even a clue to get to the first page to do anything. Any other help? Thanks in advance

Darno

 

[Nikepete]

I would re-install Win2K. Get a Win98 boot disk to boot and access your CDROM drive. Run Setup from your Win2K CD and select option "upgrade". Win2K will restore your system files and keep your old configuration the same so that you don't have to re-install your apps.

 

[Moonark]

It sounds like there might be a problem with the video card itself. I have not experienced this problem with Windows 2000 yet, but when I ran 98 on my machine that is the same thing that happened to me. Make sure that you have the latest video card drivers. Boot into safe mode and remove the card. When you restart it should find a Generic Driver to work with the card if it finds at all. Being 2000 the driver should be there, but just to make sure, get the latest drivers. If the card is PCI, try to swap slots and see what happens.

 

[rew]

if you can get into safe mode, go to control panel then system. under the advanced tab, click startup and recovery, uncheck the box that says automaticaly reboot. then restart the comp, when the blue screen pops up again paste the stop error here.


rew

 

[Ausm]

I totally hosed a Win2K box at work loading EZCD ver 3.5...what really sucked there was no warning during the installation that this software was not compatiblew with Win2K

I went to the latest version of Nero with no problems at all.


AUsm

 

[ThurzNite]

Know what this sounds like? Sounds like a thread like 3 months ago when someone asked why they didn't have the hibernate option. The fix was to reinstall win2k, but as installation is booting up, hit f3 and choose "acpi computer" or something like that.
I was trying to figure out a quicker way and i posted that users should hit windows+break, head over to hardware setup and force the computers property to acpi. After drivers loaded and everything, the computer would reboot and go into a loop as you described. The only fix was the reinstall win2k on top of itself, which would resolve the driver problem. Not sure if this helps, but sounds like some driver got f*ked. Good luck.
Jay

 

[LocutusX]

Yeah I hosed my computer after installed DirectCD 2.5a, so what I did is boot into Windows 98 and delete the core DirectCD files from the \winnt\system32\drivers directory. Then I was able to get into Win2K normally and uninstall the damned thing. Now I have to figure out how I can get a full version of DirectCD 3.01 so I can access all of my DirectCD CD-RW's under Win2K! Damned Adaptec/HP!

(Yeah, my Win2K drive is NTFS, but I have a NTFS driver for Windows 98)

 

[nEoTeChMaN]

I've experience that before and all you have to do is go into safe mode by pressing F8. Once, you get into windows (safe mode)..right away..uninstall Adaptec CD program and reboot. That'll solve it.

nEo

 

[Crypticburn]

neotechman, I believe he said he cant go into safe mode, but what you suggest would work if he could. I say, reinstall win2k, that's the only feasable option right now.... if you're dual booting, go into win98 and install from there, otherwise use the boot disks you made.... which you prolly didnt, so you can make them on another computer, or do it by starting up with a win98 boot disk and putting the CD in and running the programs off the CD to make the disks, or you can install win98 and upgrade to win2k... good luck!

 

[mrhair]

Just a little tidbit here: The Windows 2000 Professional CD is bootable, so you don't need to use boot disks if your BIOS is told to boot from a CD before it boots from a hard drive. It's much quicker than making and using Windows 2000 boot disks.

 

[Looney]

This sounds like the same problem with the Dell Win2k Creative Live! drivers back in Feb/March. So i'm tempted to say it's possibly a driver problem.

I also had a similar problem back a few months ago with the G400 in 32bit and EasyCD Creator... every single time EasyCD loaded up i would get a spontaneous reboot. Hey, i just reread your msg and you said you installed the EasyCD too, are you using a G400 in 32bit? if so, that's your answer.

 

[Wardog]

There is a known bug involving EZ CD and Win2000. Theres an article at news.com about the bug http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2360462.html?tag=st.ne.1002.bgif.ni. Supposedly there is a fix on the adaptec website.

 

[yata]

Shoot! Is EZ CD and DirectCD messing the OS up?? A friend of mine has trouble playing Shogun: Total War. A couple minutes into the game it would just quit all of a sudden and return back to Windows. Windows has DirectCD loaded in the task manager. I thought it might be the graphic card, Asus geForce. It might just be the Adaptec stuff he installed that came with the burner...