Installing OS - won't boot

[SiLVerBuRn]

Yes i've searched for it and i've tried everything i found.

I'm installing Windows 2000 Advanced Server on a 1GHz Duron processor with 128 mb of ram.

I flashed the bios with the latest upgrade for the mobo.

Still it hangs on the "Setup is starting Windows 2000" screen. I even let it sit overnight but to no avail.

Can anyone help?

[John Flowers]

I had the same problem with Win 2k. Found out it was locking up because of bad sound card. What I did to find this out was I removed all my pci cards and tried rebooting. Windows didn't lock up, so I added one card at a time, and volla! Hopes this helps!

[Dax_Brandy]

more detailed specs please...
maybe your system doesnt have the capacity to handle win2k server OS. imo.

[John Prophet]

128 mb of ram.???????


I think that is your problem

[John Prophet]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...qs/default.asp

it says 128 is the "minimum" but I have always heard 128 isnt really enough





(I would have edited the previous post instead of making a new one but evidently I cant since Im half banned?)

[Jüš† ä gü¥]

I don't think the 128MB of RAM is the problem because I run WindowsXP on a machine with 128MB RAM and haven't had any problems. As far as I know, XP is just a bulkier Windows2000, so if it works on the bulkier, it should also work on the less bulky

*Edit* could be a slightly bad BIOS flash, too. See if you can boot *ANY* OS on that PC. (Okay, so I'm betting you can boot DOS----try something like Win98 or Win95 or WinME or some Linux distro.)