I was wondering if someone could shed some light on my situation.
Originally, I had a cusl2 (1006.a bios) MB with one stick of 256mb cas2 micron memory, a celeron 633 processor and a Diamond s540 video card. It was very stable running at 950mhz under win2K. In addition, I had a 20GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 60 and a 3com network card. A turbo-cool 350 in a PCPower&Cooling case rounds out my system from the land of misfit toys.
I added another stick of micron cas2 256MB ram and a Creative Labs PCI128 sound card and began loading the appropriate win2K drivers when the fun began. The first sign of trouble was a series of error messages within win2K indicating a corrupted system directory. Next, the OS recommended running chkdsk, which I did several times. Now, chkdsk runs everytime I boot the computer.
I removed the parts one by one to see what caused the problem. The system in its premod state now exhibits the same symptoms. I backed the clock down to 633 and still get the errors and the chkdsk routine still runs at startup. I swapped in an older Maxtor 10GB DiamondMax Plus 40 drive and the bios would not recognize it. I swapped another drive, a Seagate Medalist Pro 6530, and tried to install win2K. On three installation attempts, I got a BSOD, a locked machine where the power switch became unresponsive (i.e., had to unplug the stupid thing to turn it off), and noticed the cd drive was having trouble reading or finding all of the files on the installation cd (cd ok). Win2K would not install on the original drive without locking, BSOD or skipping installation files.
Here is some more information on the system. The original mb was a p5-99vm, which died with similar issues. I figured the integrated IDE controller was shot and decided not to pursue any additional troubleshooting. Now with the cusl2 having what seems to be the same problem, I am beginning to think the power supply or the cd drive could be the culprits since they are the only common parts between the two systems. I even tried new IDE cables (80 pin for the primary master HD)
I rechecked all connections, ran virus check and changed one variable at a time during my testing.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
SportQ
Originally, I had a cusl2 (1006.a bios) MB with one stick of 256mb cas2 micron memory, a celeron 633 processor and a Diamond s540 video card. It was very stable running at 950mhz under win2K. In addition, I had a 20GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 60 and a 3com network card. A turbo-cool 350 in a PCPower&Cooling case rounds out my system from the land of misfit toys.
I added another stick of micron cas2 256MB ram and a Creative Labs PCI128 sound card and began loading the appropriate win2K drivers when the fun began. The first sign of trouble was a series of error messages within win2K indicating a corrupted system directory. Next, the OS recommended running chkdsk, which I did several times. Now, chkdsk runs everytime I boot the computer.
I removed the parts one by one to see what caused the problem. The system in its premod state now exhibits the same symptoms. I backed the clock down to 633 and still get the errors and the chkdsk routine still runs at startup. I swapped in an older Maxtor 10GB DiamondMax Plus 40 drive and the bios would not recognize it. I swapped another drive, a Seagate Medalist Pro 6530, and tried to install win2K. On three installation attempts, I got a BSOD, a locked machine where the power switch became unresponsive (i.e., had to unplug the stupid thing to turn it off), and noticed the cd drive was having trouble reading or finding all of the files on the installation cd (cd ok). Win2K would not install on the original drive without locking, BSOD or skipping installation files.
Here is some more information on the system. The original mb was a p5-99vm, which died with similar issues. I figured the integrated IDE controller was shot and decided not to pursue any additional troubleshooting. Now with the cusl2 having what seems to be the same problem, I am beginning to think the power supply or the cd drive could be the culprits since they are the only common parts between the two systems. I even tried new IDE cables (80 pin for the primary master HD)
I rechecked all connections, ran virus check and changed one variable at a time during my testing.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
SportQ