Win 2000 Installation Problem.

I wonder if you guys can help.
I'm doing a clean install of Win 2000, everything was going fine up till the point where the installation asked me to re-boot without the Installation disk in the drive. I did this and now it appears to boot up fine up until the Win2000 screen appears, then it justs re-boots, and reboots and reboots. Just before it reboots a blue screen flashes then disappears with some writing in the top right of the screen, the only thing i can make out of this writing before the machine re-boots is 'out of memory' . I'm running 384Mb of Ram and a 20Gb hard drive. I installed Win2000 using Fat32 rather than NTFS i don't know if this has any bearing at all.
Thanks for your time and any suggestions as i am rapidly running out of hair !!!

 

did you try to reinstall it from the begining?

Put the disk back in and try it again!

then let us know what happened.

 

In the future, I'd go with ntfs over fat32....less problems and support for files over 4GB....not that anyone will ever need it, but...

Is this a machine that was running before? I've seen this thing happen in Win2K with PCI cards having conflicts with each other....especially sound and network cards...the simplest thing would be to try moving cards around and see if you can get it to work...What motherboard are you using and what cards are where? You may be able to look in manual and see what slots share resources with the other slots....try to keep things as clean as possible..

Another thought...Can you boot to the CD and do a recovery from console? I can't remember exactly where it is, as it's been a while since I had a Win2K machine with any problems, but you should be able to get to a C:\ prompt. Go into the C:\WINNT directory and take a look at bootlog.txt. Hopefully there will be something in there.

 

I tried to re-install last night, however, it didn't even load the entire CD. It got halfway through the installation when the blue screen re-appeared. The blue screen stayed on this time saying,

" System Registry............. Load Physical memory, Dump Physical memory, Contact your system Adminstrator "

This was again using FAT32.

Tried again with another clean install this time using NTFS and it loaded perfectly.

I don't know !!!!!1

 

Well, at least you're running!!

Now just keep a good defrag program scheduled to run every night and you'll be cookin' with gas!!

 

Yep all up and running mjg1973 thanks for all your advice, i guess if it ain't broke !!!!!