Could honey x be the culprit here? help please!

i bought this k7s5a board off someone for a good price. it was flashed with the honey x bios. a couple of days ago i tried installing win2k on a scsi drive. throw in my win2k startup disks, even did a low level format of the drive. this is what i ran into.

STOP: c0000221 Unknown Hard Error
\SystemRoo\System32\ntdll.dll

i figured there might be a chance that the drive was fubar so i decided to try another drive. i am now using a brand new maxtor 40gb 7200/ata133 drive. i get the same stop error. it can't be coincidence that i run into the same stop error. could it? is there something in the setup that i may have overlooked. the only things i have disabled are the onboard sound, lan.
any help would be appreciated.
thank you.

got this from ]here

re: c0000221 Unknown hard error /ntdll.dll
Saturday, April 12, 2003 at 10:09 am
Posted by jahfree [find other messages by jahfree]
I am going thru this right now. I was advised to disable Ultra DMA access on CDRWdrive, which I did, and blue screen went away. go figure. HOPE THIS HELPS SOMEONE!


On Monday, September 2, 2002 at 6:22 am, RIch wrote:
>When i startup windows xp, just after the windows xp screen with the blue scrolling
>bar, it goes to a blue screen saying: STOP: c0000221 Unknown hard error \systemroot\system32\ntdll.dll
>After a reboot, the machine gif the same error. Is this a windows problem or a hardware
>problem and how can i go about fixing it? (Aopen AX4BS Pro)


re: c0000221 Unknown hard error /ntdll.dll
Monday, April 14, 2003 at 10:06 pm
Posted by Philip [find other messages by Philip]
It really helped me. Thanks a lot.

if i could get the os loaded then changing dma options would be good.

You change it in the bios. Change it from dma to pio and see if it helps.

thanks people. realized that one of the win2k startup disks had a corrupted file on it. copied fresh disks and all is golden.
thanks for the responses.