Win2000 crash/reset on startup

magg · Post by **magg** » Mon Apr 28, 2003 6:18 am

Hi all!

Just installed an Win2000 image on quite a new PC and when it starts up, it goes into a reset loop. All it does is load the screen with the bars at the bottom and then reset itself.

It's got a new BIOS, temp is fine and this is happening on several PC's. It won't enter into safe mode either.

I don't think its a bad image because it works on other machines.Also, there is no BSOD, so there's no fatal driver error.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Mon Apr 28, 2003 8:45 am

You say you installed an image of 2K on a different pc? You can't do that, it's looking for the hardware of the pc that you imaged, you need to do a fresh install.

koldchillah · Post by **koldchillah** » Mon Apr 28, 2003 1:37 pm

Originally posted by mnosteele52
You say you installed an image of 2K on a different pc? You can't do that, it's lloking for the hardware of the pc that you imaged, you need to do a fresh install.

yeah.. what he said...

and if you are in fact using an identical PC, then have you tried booting to safe mode and turning off the automatically restart option in the system properties?

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon Apr 28, 2003 4:22 pm

Like they said above, imaging across to different computers will often result in what you see.....because the hardware be be completely different. Meaning, different chipset, different IDE drivers, etc.

If you clone to the exact same make and model computer...meaning the exact same motherboard, exact same graphics card, sound card, NIC, everything is installed in the exact same slots...then there's no problem.

If you clone to the same motherboard, perhaps a different graphics card, or different NIC..then still no problem...just reload the correct divers.

But install to a different motherboard..expecially a different chipset...like from Intel to Via...and..well, you see what you get.

magg · Post by **magg** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 5:23 am

It's quite odd. The machines are identical.

I had to reinstall from scratch and that seems to work, but I have no idea why the image doesn't work as it does on other machines.

Ah well..

Thanks anyway guys.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 6:34 am

Perhaps the image got hosed, didn't transfer properly. I've done hundreds of ghost images, once in a rare while it happens.

I've found better success in FDISKing the destination drive first, then formatting it..just to prep it clean first. Then bring the image over.