I haven't had good of luck with WIN2K. I've been on it for nearly a year, and while I rarely get a BSOD, I have had problems booting. Scenario, yesterday, I load a DVD player program on and it calls for a reboot. I do and upon reboot I get a blue screen Windows STOP ERROR 00000001E. It reboots itself to the same thing. Again, and again, and again. I then hit F8 for options an choose safe mode. Same thing. I choose last known good configuration. Same thing. I choose VGA mode. SAME THING! I use the emergency restore disk(ERD). It loads all kind of stuff, takes over 20 minutes. Finally reboots and the SAME THING!. I had to format the drive and reinstall the whole OS.
Now here is the kicker: This is the 5th time in about 3 months! Sometimes I didn't even load anything new. Last time, I come home from work, turn it on and get stop error and I cannot proceed any further. I changed motherboards and hard drives, reinstalled and few weeks later the same thing.
This morning I loaded WIN ME. Works fine so far. It's a shame to waste a dual CPU motherboard though. At least with ME I can recover from a boot problem.
I would definitely recommend a dual boot.
MIKE
Now here is the kicker: This is the 5th time in about 3 months! Sometimes I didn't even load anything new. Last time, I come home from work, turn it on and get stop error and I cannot proceed any further. I changed motherboards and hard drives, reinstalled and few weeks later the same thing.
This morning I loaded WIN ME. Works fine so far. It's a shame to waste a dual CPU motherboard though. At least with ME I can recover from a boot problem.
I would definitely recommend a dual boot.
MIKE
