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New Messagewindows 2000 unexpected restarts (modified 0 times) cuchetti
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I've seen a similar thread for this problem, but it seemed more hardware and bios related than os so I'm creating a new thread.

I have a i-opener that's been running 98se for about 6 months with no problems. I just bought a larger hard drive and wanted to upgrade the os, so I loaded W2K on it (from a ThinkPad), put it in the machine.

Now here's the problem it won't boot. It goes throught the diagnostic screen ok, then the "Loading Windows 2000" thermometer comes up at the bottom of the screen, and once the thermometer reaches the end, it goes back and re-boots again. It'll do this indefinatly.

I'm unsure which version i-opener I have. Must be early, no goop, no cut pins, regular screws in the case. Could the problem be with installing the OS from the ThinkPad? I did this the first time with 98se and after spending a few minutes with the device manager, I got all of the conflicts sorted out and it ran perfect.

I just upgraded to 128k notebook ram and got a new bios from BadFlash within the last 2 weeks.

Does the sanDisk need to be disabled? Is my machine too old to run W2K? Please help.

09-21-2001 08:31:05

New MessageRE:windows 2000 unexpected restarts (modified 0 times) Kcmjr
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I just experienced the same thing. I've got a V5 with a K62+ and 128 meg of ram. I use an IBM travelstar 20 gb drive on an IMOD3. I installed Win2k as an upgrade to Win98 and I was running fine until I tried to do a hibernation instead of a shutdown. From then on it just kept rebooting. I was able to put the hard disk on my main PC as a secondary drive and see everything fine. I was able to backup all the data this way. The reboot issue also transferred to my main PC when I attempted to boot from the IO hard disk so it's a WIn 2k issue, not an i-opener issue.

I tried everything I could think of from partition magic to Win2k repair procedures of all sorts to no avail. I spend hours trying to recover the thing and eventually gave up and installed afresh clean copy of Win2k. This new install is working fine except that the IO will not auto power down at shutdown.

I don't think this is an I-opener issue, I think it has to do with a blown Win2k install. I'm hardening my setup to allow for recovery if this happens again (or so I hope). If you get it to boot again post the results.

KCM

09-21-2001 16:27:50

New MessageRE:windows 2000 unexpected restarts (modified 0 times) patcat88
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Are you using a official win2k disc or a burned copy? If you try to burn with nero make sure the dos file names (character set) are used otherwise certain files won't copy during the install (ex. blahbl~1.exe will be burned as blahbl_1.exe). If you don't have them certain things will crash and be disabled. Windows update will say counldn't compleate update, crashes in win32.sys, audio driver crash (sb live), video crash.
08-28-2002 18:33:16

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