I have an older Win2K PC fitted with an IBM Deskstar 41GB 7200rpm HDD. On start-up, the machine gets to the DOS style "Starting Windows" screen with progress bar (the screen that shows the F8 option), the goes blue screen with the 0X00000024 stop error.
F8 safe mode options result in the same stop error, I have also run the Hitachi/IBM drive fitness software in quick & advanced modes, & neither show any error?
tyring to boot from the Win2K CD, or bootable floppys give the same blue screen result.
I seem to remember issues (from a while ago), with disks running up, then dropping out because of PSU issues - but I really dont know if it is connected.
Apparently this PC has blue screened a handfull of times over the last month or so, hot booting did solve the issue up until now.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
F8 safe mode options result in the same stop error, I have also run the Hitachi/IBM drive fitness software in quick & advanced modes, & neither show any error?
tyring to boot from the Win2K CD, or bootable floppys give the same blue screen result.
I seem to remember issues (from a while ago), with disks running up, then dropping out because of PSU issues - but I really dont know if it is connected.
Apparently this PC has blue screened a handfull of times over the last month or so, hot booting did solve the issue up until now.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.