Win2k AS install = BSOD!

[celeritas]

I also posted this in Operating Systems. Please let me know if you need more info & help if you can. TIA

I booted from a Windows 2000 Pro CD and installed it in 4G partition #1 fine; however, every time I attempt to install Windows 2000 Advanced Server, it goes through the initial steps, but crashes with a blue screen right after reading "Starting Windows 2000" (before the GUI "Starting Windows...&quot. This occurs before I am able to choose the install location. All partitions are formatted as NTFS; I want to put Win2k AS in 4GB partition #2, and it's completely empty...

I've tried it with 3 other A.S. CD's, and all of them boot and run the install fine on other computers, as well as dual boot with Win2k Pro.

I browsed the following sites, but haven't been able to resove the problem yet:

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The BSOD I get is:

PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED (0x6B)

What little information I've found on this error doesn't seem to help. Since I just installed it right before attempting the Win2k AS setup, my Win2k Pro install is absolutely vanilla, with no service packs, 3rd party drivers or programs -- including no anti-virus stuff, etc. I also tried the AS setup after Win2k Pro SP2, IE 5.5, and other programs were installed (and after virus-scanning all partitions thoroughly) -- with the same results. BTW, I tested the CD-ROM drive that I'm using to boot/setup Win2k AS; I received no read errors, etc. when copying all the data off the AS CD via Windows Explorer...

Has anyone seen the above BSOD? How did you fix it? Thanks.

 

[celeritas]

In case you're curious...

Epox Ep-8K7A mainboard
AMD Tbird (Axia) 1.2@1.4Ghz (140x10) -- I also tried installing Win2k at the default 1.2Ghz.
512MB Crucial PC2100 DDR RAM
60GB 7200RPM ATA100 Maxtor HDD master/single on IDE1 with tested good ATA100 cable (partitions = 4GB+4GB+12GB+12GB+28GB; no errors/virii detected)
56x Generic CD-ROM (installed as master/single on IDE2)
10x/4x/32x HP CD-RW (also tried this drive as master/single; Win2k AS setup BSOD's if installed from either drive)
Visiontek Geforce 3 (setup also fails with TNT1 Diamond Viper V550 instead of GF3)
3COM 10/100 NIC (setup also fails with 3COM removed)
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card (card removed makes no difference; setup fails)
Nothing is connected to USB, serial, parallel, etc. ports during setup.

 

[Slikkster]

Take a look at this thread on a newsgroup...looks like you might be using mirrored drives and the guy from microsoft's suggestion near the end of the thread helped the person with the problem:

Remedying your stop error

 

[celeritas]

I'm not using mirrored drives.

 

[Slikkster]

Here's another link to check (search results). You might want to remove some hardware before installing (yeah, yeah, I know you shouldn't have to do it but AS might be pickier on this pc):

Google Newsgroup Search Results

 

[celeritas]

I solved the problem. I installed Win2k Pro in partition #1 via boot CD, then used a Win98 boot disk, formatted partition #2 as FAT32, made it active, copied the Win2k AS setup files to it, and ran the install from the HDD. Once Win2K AS was installed, I made partition #1 active again and added entries for AS and Pro in each others' boot.ini's. That worked like a charm. Hopefully, this will help others who experience the same problem.

Thanks Slikkster.

 

[sadb0i]

such a hard way to go...i didnt have that many probs...whew!

 

[celeritas]

It got even harder. Check out this. Everything got wiped when closing SiSoft Sandra. What a b*tch. :|

 

[sadb0i]

ah i feel ya bro...

 

[celeritas]

I should have a crying avatar, too.