I finally changed a BX mobo (Abit), all went well, there must be something
wrong with the old LX mobo.

Jun Qian

Ultra wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I need help on a win2k machine. here is the case:
> hardware: LX mobo, Celeron 300 CPU, 64M RAM, S3 Trio 3D AGP, Realtek
> NIC.
> I was told the machine was runnig win98 fine, until he change the OS to
> win2k. He said he couldn't get the S3 AGP card work (system lockup), I
> tested the card on another win98 machine, it turned to be fine. I
> cleaned C: drive and re-installed win2k, same result. Then I changed a
> TNT2 AGP card and fresh re-installed win2k again. This time, the video
> seems working, but I cannot access harddisk, the machine boot up normaly
> into win2k without any problem, Device manager show nothing wrong, but
> if I try to open up "My computer"-->"C drive" or something similar
> (access harddisk within win2k), the machine locks up.
> I changed harddisk cable and a new harddisk, but it doesn't make any
> better. I also tried to network the machine to our small LAN, so that I
> can transfer files from my working win2k workstation to it easily, but
> right after reboot (change of workgroup), the machine locked up and I no
> longer boot into win2k anymore.  Then I tried latest reference driver
> (for TNT2, installed in Safe mode because I couldn't boot into win2k
> normal mode) which makes the no difference, (locks up at "starting
> windwos" screen, use last known good option doesn't help here).
> However, in Safe mode, I can access harddisk without any problem.
> I'm going to try win98 on it.
> Driver used: win2k build-in TNT2 driver, nVidia reference driver for
> win2k, S3 Trio 3D driver for NT4 (I can't find driver for win2k).
> all BIOS setting are correct.
>
> Anyone have any idea what is the problem/how to fix it? I can clean the
> c: drive if needed.

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