Unmountable boot device dumping physical memory

[SilverThunder]

Every once in a while, my computer (running win 2K) will give me blue screens like unmountable_boot_device and/or dumping physical memory. After that, sometimes I can't boot and have to reformat.

I am also dealing with long boot times (seems to hang for a while on the Windows 2000 professional load screen).

also, I have a Seagate 40Gig 7200 RPM drive, ASUS A7V266E MB.

Does anyone know how I can maybe solve this problem.

 

[Spikey289]

You may need to start the troubleshooting by eliminating devices. Remove external devices try it if it still gives the issue try pci cards and internal devices. That is the best place I can think to start with.

 

[AntaresVI]

I had this prob a while ago with my USB zip 100 drive and a epox 8hha+ mobo. Got any weird USB devices?

 

[SilverThunder]

Thank you for the advice, Spikey and Lerocks.

My USB devices are as follows:
-Microsoft optical wheel mouse.
-Lexmark Z25 printer
-Visioneer 5800 scanner

Don't you think it could be the hard drive as it is complaining about the boot device? Sometimes during boot up, Win 2000 runs the Chkdisk utility.