RE: Win2K looping upon bootup

[Miller Bonnie L.]

Title: Win2K looping upon bootup

I’m not familiar with the Precision 410, but do they also have an onboard video controller in addition to the diamond pro FireGl video card?  We have the newer Dell Optiplex series workstations, which have an onboard video controller.  When we add the 16MB Nvidia PCI video card that they sell as an add-on to the workstation, there are similar symptoms when reinstalling win2k.  It stops just over half way past the blue bar and then hangs the machine—won’t boot.  The issue is with the Nvidia driver not being in the win2k setup files and there is info on Dell’s support site about it if you dig deep enough.   Two ways that I know of to get around this:  1)  Yank the extra video card during the OS installation and then add it afterwards using the driver disk or 2)  Add the driver files to your sysprep/riprep image (this is what I did since we are using RIS).  Not sure how you’d add it to your ghost image, but there must be a similar method available.   -Bonnie M. -----Original Message----- From: Terry Manolakos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 1:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win2K looping upon bootup   Firstly, my heart goes out to all those families who lost loved ones in that tragic attack.  This e-mail list helped me deal with the emotional torment that I felt from the very first day of the attack.  Reading through 350+ e-mails relating to the attack made me feel very close to the pain/frustration of the citizens of the United States as well as others throughout the rest of the world.        I have an issue that may be trivial to some but I'll ask anyway.  Win2K machine on a Dell Precision 410 (Pentium II with 128Mb RAM (ecc) Diamond Pro FireGl video card) does not get past the "starting Windows 2000" (screen with the horizontal bar graph loading).......it just reboots again over and over, looping.  Memory, HDD, CPU or video card failure may be the culprit(s) but the system is in a remote location and these can not be ruled out so easily.  Booting up in Safe mode results in same problem.  Any ideas as to how to isolate the problem remotely?  Thanks in advance! Ted M eNGENU!TY Technologies Montreal, Canada Visit us at: http://www.engenuitytech.com  http://www.virtualprototypes.ca   http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm