re: Windows 2000 Login Loop and Inaccessabile Boot Device BSOD
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 11:53 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6908 messages posted)
If it BSOD's at that part of the install, you have a hardware issue or failure, or
a driver issue. First suspect would be the driver, then the hdd, then memory (as
that is where the files are loaded first), and on a laptop, there can be a number
of things such as, XP may not have the correct drivers, especially for the IDE controller.
Laptops have many proprietary types of hardware that Windows will not have the drivers
for. Therefore, you have to have or download the drivers for it, or use the manfacturers
install/recovery procedures so that doesn't become an issue. Off hand, I would suspect
that there is a driver, or HDD issue, last would be a memory or motherboard issue.
If the CD ROM is loading the installer, than it sounds like the BIOS does have a
boot from USB device and the initial loading of the install files is done with a
legacy IDE driver, then when it attempts to reboot, the IDE driver is either wrong,
or Windows didn't have an IDE driver for the chipset, and at that point it will BSOD
with a code and a message. It may or may not reboot. If it just reboots, then you
probably won't be able to see the error message. When you can, post the code and
message if you can read it off the screen. That will help diagnose it possibly.
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