Me Win2k's dead - RIP

[SteveC]

Boohoo! After serving me since, well, ages ago (a bit before win2k came out), my Windows 2000 installation has died - it won't boot up past doing a scandisk (well, chkdsk - there's nowt wrong with my HDD) I get a BSoD (exception not handled or something) then it reboots... Safe mode or anything don't work...

Time for a format and reinstall.... see you all on the flip side! (Gonna take days to get it all back!! )

How's everyone else's Win2k installs going? Any had theirs die after a year or so? (Still, a year's better than the 4 months or so record for me with a win9x... )

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Paddy]

ive had the same error!

Not much you can do but start again.

My current build it a bit funny...my exams finnish on wednesday so i might rebuild also.

Race ya!

[SteveC]

I've just kicked my trusty (ha!) old DDS1 DAT drive into action to back up my emails and ICQ before I re-install..... please god let it work!

Exams? I've had "progress tests" this last week and they finish wednesday too. However, I have done a grand total of under 10 minutes revision for all of them so far, and do not plan to do any more! Roll on christmas is all I can say!

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Ant]

I've come across a really evil piece of software that completely trashes my Windows 2000 system, I've had to completely reinstall three times because of it. The software is called Microsoft Media Player 7, every time I try to install it boom there goes my Windows 2000 on reboot, I have to wipe and reinstall

[SteveC]

Aha! I'm back, freshly formatted and raring to go! (Albeit a million programs and drivers to install... )

And Ant - funnily I installed Media Player 7 just not very long ago - to watch the madonna concert (not that I could get through to the site in the end!) That's what probably killed it off!

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Hunsow]

No problems here, installed all sorts of crap, including wmp7. However I never install epos#1 netscape, that might make the difference. (And epos#2 matrox w2k vidtools)

[Paddy]

If i try to update IE my win2K build dies...

I think i'm gonna do a 95/2K dual boot and get back to some fraggin'

[Jammrock]

You call yourself phreaks. I've blown up my Win2k install at least 7 time since the final version came out in Feb.

The most recent one happened when I could no longer connect to the network. It started after installed Netscape 6, which in turn blew up IE 5.5. Then IE 5.5 stopped working right, then all of Win2k went out.

Jammrock

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Athlon 650, Biostar board, 128 MB PC133 (Crucial), G400 32 MB DH, SB Live! w/ Digital I/O, 10/100 NIC, lots of case fans, etc...

[agallag]

I blew up W2K on my laptop a few months ago with a usb file transfer cable. the cable I got didn't come with w2k drivers, but I found some on the web that seemed to work for a few weeks. Then one time while transferring, explorer crashed. I rebooted just to be "safe", and when it came back up, STOP KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED... or something like that, that's from memory. I now keep a small W98 partition with lotus notes and msoffice for emergencies.

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Andrew
Carpe Cerevisi

[Dr Mordrid]

I keep my highly stable since installation Win98SE setup as my primary and only use Win2K for beta'ing.

Win2K is still rough 'round the edges....

Dr. Mordrid

[Jorden]

Thinking about that, dr. Morbid, I hope you have that version burned onto a CD by now, or backed it up somewhere safe?

I blew my Win2k Server setup after only 3 weeks of using it. Was something to do with testing Active Directory on a network of 2 PCs only, plus my main WinME crashing the last time and a total refusal of all my programs to work afterwards (d'oh! ).

Even a crash-backup didn't work, so I tried a 2 week old backup, finding it was corrupted as well.

So... I now run my new WinME seup and a normal Win2k Pro setup side by side, crossing my fingers for the moment

Jord.

[fds]

I neatly killed win2k on my home computer when I scheduled both a boot-time defragmantation with Diskeeper (directory and free space consolidation) and PageDefrag (registry and swap file defragmanter from sysinternals).

Afterwards just before the GUI would start it crashes with a blue screen claiming the SAM registry hive is either corrupted or unreadable. Safe mode, etc, the same error.

A chkdsk with Rescue Console shows no problems. Automatic repair didn't do anything about solving the problem just replaced the files SP1 upgraded to the originals. Naturally I didn't have a rescue disk.

I'm only at home on weekends so I didn't have time to reinstall it yet. I'm using Me meanwhile but it's rather annoying. System resources, the terrible multitasking...

It's always so good to be back to Win2k on weekdays.

[Gurm]

My friend's PC has been running more or less stably since Windows 3.1 - with the following OS's installed on it (in order of upgrade):

(Bear in mind not all of these are publicly available products, so don't go telling me how it can't be done... some of them involved hacking, too...)

Win3.1
WFW3.11
Win95 beta
Win95
Win95OSR2
Nashville (Essentially Win95 Plus Pack w/the basis of what eventually became Windows ME's interface)
Win98 beta
Win98
Win98se beta
Win98se
Several Millennium betas
Win2k since beta3 (rc's and then final)

And it still runs! It's amazing, and he recently set aside that hard drive for posterity's sake).

- Gurm

[Lizzard[MPE]]

Steve.. i havent been on here long.. but is your PC completely falling apart??? ive never seen so many problems in my life.. haha. and to think i have a heartattack when my computer locks up like every 6 months.. i feel for ya Sorry your having all the problems!

[Jorden]

Jason, that friend must be running a high-end 486 with Pentium Overdrive by now