Greetings All:

A co-worker of mine is experience a problem which I've quoted below.  I've
suggested to him that he try making his older & smaller drive as his master
boot device, and that if this works he will need to disable ultra66 support
for his new drive.  I vaguely remember a recent post suggesting something
similar. If I was incorrect or of anyone has anything other advice to offer,
please post.  His problem is as follows:


>I upgraded to a pIII 500 on a P3B 6 pci 1 isa motherboard, i have 256 meg
of<
>ram and everything works sweet in 98 se, when i run windows 2000 install<
>it installs fine i can configure it. but if i reboot it never fails i get
the<
>stop error " Inaccessible boot device" i've already tried removing all my<
>drives except my main drive and also samething with cards except video,
same<
>thing, i've reinstalled countless times with the same error, i've also
made<
>various changes to settings in the bios and nothing, same error. I also
have<
>in my machine a 40 GB which is my master and a 17GB which is slaved, i have
a<
>dvd encore 2x as my main cdrom and a HI-val 2x rewritable burner slaved to<
>that.





Ian Carmichael

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