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First post, by cnpr

Posted on 2016-07-12, 06:08

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Hello everyone, I having a issue on installing windows 2k on a the p5ab. at first it was blue screening me, but after a few configurations, I got past that. The install process goes just fine until I get to the part when it start boot normally. After the splash screen, I get a black screen and the HDD does nothing. configs goes as fallows:

amd k6 500mhz
256mb of ram
nvidia tnt2 @ 32mb agp
voodoo 2 pci card @12mb(I think)
creative awe 64 isa
intel pro 100 isa network card

It did had a promise ultra 100 tx2 which I thought might me the issue, but is currently removed. I have successfully got into safe mode, but don't understand why it wont boot up normally and its a fresh install.
what could be causing it?

Reply 1 of 4, by FaSMaN

Posted on 2016-07-12, 06:19

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You can try to boot hirens boot disc and do a 24 hour prime test followed by a memtest to make sure your configuration is stable 😀

Also have a look on the board for bad-caps, disable non important peripherals in the bios, and booting windows 2000 with no other add in cards, just VGA.

Reply 2 of 4, by shamino

Posted on 2016-07-12, 15:04

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I wonder if it's an AGP issue. Being able to boot to safe mode, but the normal boot goes to the splash screen and then a black screen is exactly what happened on my super socket 7 system when I was first struggling to get AGP to work on it. However my chipset was a VIA MVP3, not Ali. I had that issue in Win98SE after installing VIA+NVidia drivers (which had to be installed manually there, but maybe Win2k includes them automatically). In my case it was resolved by a strange setting in the BIOS which did not appear relevant to AGP, but again, it was a different chipset so the quirks were probably different.

If you have a PCI video card I'd try swapping that in and see if the problem goes away. If it does then investigate the AGP thing further. AGP is often problematic on non-Intel boards of that period.
If you only have AGP cards, then at least try a different one of those in case the TNT2 card is just faulty. I've had a video card before that malfunctioned only when accessed in a fully accelerated AGP mode but otherwise would work (different card and system than the episode described above).

As FaSMan suggested, general hardware stability testing with Prime and memtest would also be prudent, especially given the prior BSOD issues you were having.

Reply 3 of 4, by cnpr

Posted on 2016-07-12, 17:33

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shamino that the helped a lot. I took the agp card out then put in the pci card and booted with no problems. after that I found a better driver and installed it. Then put my agp card back in worked without a hitch. if off the major geeks website if anyone is interested in it.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/ali_i … ted_driver.html

Reply 4 of 4, by candle_86

Posted on 2016-07-12, 17:50

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I've seen this problem with drivers mismatch vs the DirectX version.

I know for instance my Geforce 2 wont work with the 81.98 and will often blackscreen if i don't first install DX9.

It could be a problem like that

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