Begining Dump of Physical memory???????? HELP!

[PGreene]

Can anyone figure this out???

Brand new Seagate HDD, partitioned with Seagate installation utility. Installed with full 2000 ed. incl. serv. pk. 2.
After several days, pc started rebooting itself occasionally. Then, when I rebooted it, it would reboot itself 3,4 times before it would stay up.
2 days later, "Blue Screen"

"Stop: 0x000000D1 (0x00000015, 0x0000002,0x0000000, 0xEB6B2B46)
ADDRESS EB6B2B46 base AT EB6B0000 Date Stamp 3cc7ab4A
UHCD.sys
Beginning Dump of Physical Memory "

Then, it locks up. At least nothing happens after a couple of minutes.

After a couple of hours of fruitless effort with bios etc., I couldn't even boot it in safe mode.

I tried a fresh install; couldn't format the drive.
Re partitioned the HDD with same utility and started the install. Now, the install begins and stops on the setup screen.

I just built this pig!

ASUS P4B533
Seagate 80gb Barracuda ATA IV
P4 2.36 proc.
512 (2 sticks) corsair pc 2100 ram
New AOPEN cd rw
Enermax 425 watt pwr supp.
ATI 8500 agp video card

Somebody help me before I BUY A DAMN DELL !!!

 

[asiavoices]

may just be a defective drive. ask for a replacement or at least get a model that is popular. like IBM or Quantum. Seagates are usually good but you may have just selected a lemon by accident.

good luck

 

[ashpp]

What errors were you getting when you formatted the drive?

UHCD.SYS is the USB drivers - have you tried disabling USB in the bios?

Ash.

 

[PGreene]

Actually Ash, I tried to format it with a win 98 boot disk.
"unknown command". I just got aggravated & impatient and figured 2000 would format it. Yep, dumb.

Now when I try to boot from the os, I get "can't find NTFD" or whatever the name of the file is that W2000 needs in order to load. When I tried to install 2000 this last time, I got the same message several times.
As I write this, I recall that the NTFD (or whatever) message came up when I originally tried to load the pc after I built it. After an hour or so of different problems, I finally got around it by using a new CDR (the AOPEN). That leads me to think that the system was unstable from the beginning.
As for the usb drivers, I think it's a little late now.
I've hosed the os by repartitionig it.

 

[psybertek]

PGreene,
if you want to format a drive from the win98 boot disk you
A. have to copy the format command from the windows dir.
B. extract it from the cab file on the boot disk.

I was having a problem with win2k rebooting at startup
I had changed the acpi setting in the bios to off
as soon as I turned it back on I was able to boot into win2k

you said that win2k couldn't find a file? NTLDR maybe?
did you create a duel boot system?

if so it's looking for the NT loader file (NTLDR)

when I need to reinstal win2k I usualy use a 98 boot disk (w/format) on it. I then fdisk my c: drive (my c: drive is a seperate partition 4 gig)then format it {format c:/s} for the system files. then I run winnt from my I386 folder (on a seperate partition) and win2k installs.

if your having trouble installing win2k ie blue screen with some exception start looking at other hardware.

I have a duel monitor video card that win2k will not install with. I had to put an old PCI video card in it to get it to install. then after the install is complete I can reinstall my duel monitor card.

anyway I hope this will give you some where to look.

Psybertek
"Computer Junkies never die, They just upload."