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- Jan 1, 1970
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I tried to install a generic PnP RAID card (PCI) last Friday, and W2K repsonded by booting neatly, displaying a dialog that it found the card and the appropriate drivers, then after I had logged in, and was wondering why the CD writer that I had hooked to the RAID card wasn't also discovered, Win 2000 spontaneously announced that it was shutting down, saving my settings, and that it was not "Safe to turn off my machine." I shrugged it off and restarted and got the same response -- it shut down again.
I removed the new HW, went into Safe Mode and uninstlaled the drivers, but to no avail. It still shuts down spontaneously. We then removed everything from my startup group, and all "Run" and "RunOnce" programs from the registry. Same result. We ran task manager while it was booting, and no applications, or unusual processes are running. It just gives up and quits. We also tried
two versions of the"Repair" procedure by booting from the CD with no improvement.
This is a DELL P-II 300.
The only solution was to re-install Win2000 on a separate folder on the C:\ drive. Now I can boot to either version, and will probably migrate all my settings and application to the new installation. Lots of work, but no data was lost. Only time -- lots of it.
I removed the new HW, went into Safe Mode and uninstlaled the drivers, but to no avail. It still shuts down spontaneously. We then removed everything from my startup group, and all "Run" and "RunOnce" programs from the registry. Same result. We ran task manager while it was booting, and no applications, or unusual processes are running. It just gives up and quits. We also tried
two versions of the"Repair" procedure by booting from the CD with no improvement.
This is a DELL P-II 300.
The only solution was to re-install Win2000 on a separate folder on the C:\ drive. Now I can boot to either version, and will probably migrate all my settings and application to the new installation. Lots of work, but no data was lost. Only time -- lots of it.
