Setup is starting windows 2000 stuck

Win 2000 proffesional hangs just before setup is starting ?

Discussion in 'Computer Support' started by Thomas Mortensen, Feb 18, 2004.

1. Hi pros!
   I need some help here,

   I just finished building af workstation for Adobe applications.
   Now - when I try to install Win2000prof. OS I am completely lost.

   I have configured a RAID 5 with 3 disks ATLAS 10K same model all of them
   powered by an Adaptec RAID controller AAA-133U2. CD is Plextor bootable.
   Everything goes well (I press F6 during installation and the system acceps
   the Adaptec Array1000U2 driver disk.
   After installation of the driver the installation continues a few minuttes
   until I get the text "Setup is starting Windows 2000" in the lower left
   corner of the screen. Theneverything stops..first stops the CD drive to spin
   then a
   short break and then it starts to spin again and after some minuttes the CD
   stops completely ? And that is it - the end a blue microsoft screen with the
   above text ?

   I have tried everything what is possible for a "normal" computer guy:

   -updated the bios of the raid controller
   -updated the mainboard bios (Microstar 6156 with BX chipset)
   -swapping graphics cards from agp to pci and opposite
   -disabled everything in bios unless the most important
   -installed a IDE disk with Win2000prof. - that worked well. After this
   operation I added my RAID card but again
   I ended up with the pc not able to work with driver from adaptec..even the
   the detection of the raid card went ok
   I mean the dialog boxes came up as a sign of the new hardware.

   Anybody around having a good advice ?

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2. Ups, I forgot to tell that I use

   -slot 1 PIII 450 MHz cpu
   -128 MB SD RAM cl2

   /Thomas

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3. How are you installing the RAID driver? I had to make my own driver floppy and
   hit the F6 key during 2000 setup and add it that way - twice - before 2k would
   set up on my array. Something to try, if you haven't. And you've checked for
   newer drivers? I'm just SWAGGING here - I'm not familiar with Adaptec.

   "Mine is a Promise array, so YMMV."

4. Mara spilled my beer when they jumped on the table and proclaimed in
   The same method is needed for the Adaptec RAID cards. The only ones that
   will not need a driver floppy will be the ancient ones.

   

   NOI

5. I wondered. I've had this motherboard with the onboard chip (Asus board) for a
   very long time, and I'm the only one I know who even has a board capable of
   RAID, let alone who's actually running one - no one else I know here even knows
   what a RAID array _is._

   Do you have to install the drivers twice in setup with Adaptec? You do, with
   mine. I don't know if I'll have to with the new board. I have about 2 metric
   buttloads of computer parts on the way - this CPU appears to be failing, and I'm
   rebuilding this entire system. And then the other one. And then the _other_
   other one. And then, I'll have enough parts for another system left over, so....

   Heh. Heh, heh.

   

6. Mara spilled my beer when they jumped on the table and proclaimed in
   Yanno, I do so many servers anymore, I forget the exact procedure. It's
   almost automatic now... But, I think it does ask twice for the driver
   disk...

   NOI

7. Thanks for the advice,

   I have tried to download the new driver for the RAID controller from
   Adaptec's website - but my system rejects the floppy disk. This thing is
   pretty weird because that means that I am stuck with the initial driver from
   Adaptec (the one there was included in the retail box. I think I will try
   once more to get a new driver from Adaptec some how. During the installation
   win2000 ask only one time for the floppy disk. It does ask about if I have
   any other hardware I want to install - but basicly the system is quite happy
   about the driver included in the retail box. Even though it is a beta
   driver.

   Thanks again,

   I post a few lines when I am done with Adaptec !

   Regards, Thomas

8. If the floppy is bad itself it will do that. Also, the system doesn't _ask_ more
   than once, at least not in my case. The screen comes up and asks you to hit the
   S key to install the driver, and then you select the proper driver and hit
   Enter. It then goes back to the "install a driver" screen once the driver is
   loaded, and you go through the S/select driver/hit Enter process a second time.
   _Then,_ when it goes back to the driver installation screen a third time, you
   simply hit Enter to continue.

   <snip>

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