Win 2000 predicament

[Vàline]

<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif" border="0"> A few months ago I had Win98 and Win 2000 both on the same partision, the conflicts where minimal. As time went by my hard drive (17gig) was getting full, I took my hard drive to a friend so he could backup all the files that was important,in the proses <BR>my hard drive got some bad sectors. I had money to spend so I bought a 20 gig(brand new). I loaded Win 98 on it and when it finalised <BR>the settings at the end it got an error, something to do with the registry but it did finish the install proses, for a week I used Win 98 but then I formatted and tried loading only Windows 2000 when it got to the point to install the files, it only got to 3% and an error occured about a file that couldn`t copy correctly, it had 3 options retry, exit or continue. I retried and it continued but it happend at 17% and when it got to 49% I had to quit because it couldn`t copy the file at all. Then I formatted and tried again I came across the same errors but at different files (50%, 69% etc.)but I could continue because it could copy all of the files. At this moment I have Windows 2000 on my hard drive,now and then i get a blue screen but I can`t read what it says because the computer resets itself. I know that I can turnof the option of the computer restarting itself at "Startup and Recovery" but if I have to do it myself or the computer does it,it doesn`t matter because their isn`t any other way. For example yesterday I tried to access the internet while I was listening to some music, then the computer just restarted without any warning. And then their are these other errors when I`m trying to run a program a window appears that says :This program caused an error and will be restarted by windows. Something in that line, there`s a Cancel button at the bottom that changes to OK. Could all of these errors be related to low memory.<BR><BR>My system specs:<BR>Pentium 3 600mhz<BR>128MB RAM<BR>56 speed CD ROM drive<BR>Asus v300c Graphics card with 16MB RAM<BR>Sahara Mainboard(Motherboard) VIA 693+596B/370-133

[zogmool]

I had a similar problem a while ago, and it was due to a bad motherboard... If you still have all the backup stuff that your friend made, that could come in handy, because you may need to replace that board.<BR><BR>It's a pain in the butt, because a bad motherboard will make it look like your drives, or cards, or memory are bad and so on.<BR><BR>My bad motherboard made the installation of win98 crash the way you said. (Making me suppect my new DVD drive was deffective.) Installing win2k was a nightmare full of blue screen errors, so I just wiped it off my hard drive and started over. I was getting data corruption from all the drives, some of which are brand new. When I started up my computer, the regestry had problems, and an old version needed to be restored, generally every other boot. I thought the hard drive was dead at first, because I was also getting pages full of errors in scandisk after every boot. (The drive was brand new, though.) It eventually got so bad that I couldn't even install directx or Explorer 6.<BR><BR>Does this sound like what you're seeing?<BR><BR>Wether you are having these other problems or not, the trouble is not likely do to the 128MB of memory.

[GNXtreme]

The bad motherboard theory sounds more reasonable to me than the ram.&nbsp; I had a system a while back...950MHz Athlon w 64MB ram and a 20G HDD.&nbsp; I would occasionally get the message that I didn't have enough ram but I never had any install/boot problems.

[WebDevil]

burn the windows cd at 4 or 8 speed max and also this could be the sign of an optical drive dying replace your optical drive with a brandy new one

[WebDevil]

the ram issue with windows 98 is any more that 512mb will make windows toss up out of memory errors because windows 98 wasnt designed to address any more than 512mb preferable 384mb is my limit.