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  1. houstonfitz

    Win2K won't start or boot from floppy/cd

    John, Thanks very much!! Might not of been exactly what you were alluding to, but in doing that it actually showed that the memory was not being shown. I moved the 512mg card over one slot and rebooted and it worked fine. Was actually a bad memory slot, or so it appears. Thanks again.
  2. houstonfitz

    Win2K won't start or boot from floppy/cd

    FYI....I am using NTFS and not FAT32. Also...I have the latest Norton protections (daily) and run SPYBOT daily. I doubt it is a viral or other intrusive program affecting it. I also have the recent boot disks (4), the ERD and a Bios Flash Floppy all made right after the reformat.
  3. houstonfitz

    Win2K won't start or boot from floppy/cd

    No. It blips to the black screen before that page. It loads as far as the page that allows me to Del: setup F8: Boot etc....it does not make it to the loading page or I'd be able to go into Safe Mode. Thanks for responding
  4. houstonfitz

    Win2K won't start or boot from floppy/cd

    On starting, when the sys gets to the loading sequence the screen goes black. Then while attempting to boot from floppy (boots disks) or cd (win2000 pro) it reads "Setup is inspecting your system's hardware configuration" and hangs, does this on both the floopy and CD bot attempts...

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