Help! NT Problems constant rebooting

[jstechinla]

I have an old Intergraph GT1 with NT 4.0 Service Pack 6 that is constantly rebooting. It starts the NTDETECT process, loads various dll's & other drivers then flashes a blue screen and then reboots. I have replaced the RAM, tried a new hard disk (using a ghost image) and it still reboots. Every once in a while when I do a cold boot, it will get to the log on screen but will reboot or give me various blue screens of death messages. I have received:
0x0000001E 0x0000000a
I must use NT 4.0 for an application that is tightly intergrated with the OS. Any idea? I really need help on this one, I am running out of options.

 

[wolluf]

NT is difficult to recover from these sort of problems, without reinstalling (hardware or drivers probably). You have no idea what might have started it? You could try disconnecting all non-essential hardware (sound, network, modem cards, CD ROM) to see if it would boot then (change graphics card?). Check cpu for overheating? Have you tried VGA mode or last known good config? You could slave drive in another machine & run chkdsk.

With a later SP (eg SP4) install CD, you could try a repair - but not really with an early no service pack install CD.

 

[jstechinla]

I will try taking out cards next. One question..I have been unable to get the computer to boot to the CD-ROM with a Symbios SCSI Card, each time I ghost the drive I take it out of this computer and put it into another computer with a different SCSI (adaptec) controller. Could this be doing something? I must change the drive from Narrow to Wide to use the Adaptec card. I am thinking that maybe the diffence in SCSI cards is creating a whole new problem.
I can't find any non NT drivers for the symbios, it seems like I would need to do a Win98 install somewhere, load the drivers and then create a boot disk....seems like a lot of work....

 

[G0AOZ]

What boot options do you have in the BIOS? Boot to FDD and HDD for sure, but what about CD-ROM and SCSI? I take it from what you've posted so far, that the CD drive is a SCSI device. If your BIOS doesn't support booting from SCSI, then can you fit an IDE CD-ROM drive? That would hopefully give you the option to run an NT4 repair...

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[pcdoc4christ]

js:

This is a common problem with NT. Browsing through these may help you find a solution:

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=0..._dt=i&as_sitesearch=microsoft.com&safe=images

Hope that points you in the right direction.
Doc

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[jstechinla]

I am making some progress. I can now boot from CD, I needed to change the boot order on the Symbios bios setup as well as the Intergraph Bios.
I still can't boot to NT, but heck, one step at a time.