Subj : Win2k won't install? He To : David R. Norton From : Charles Scaglione Date : Thu Sep 28 2000 08:14 am David R. wrote to All DR>Win2k was up, running and working great. Then I bought a SyQuest DR>SparQ at my local swap meet. I removed the SyQuest EZFlyer 230 DR>which had been working just fine and installed the SparQ. It's DR>installed as the slave to my Drive C, which is the master on the DR>first IDE channel. DR>Disaster occurred and I'm not too clear when or what happened but I DR>know I did something weird.... so ok, no problem. I planned to DR>reinstall anyway so I formatted, re-installed Win98SE and all was DR>fine, everything worked. DR>Then I tried to re-install Win2k. It installed the installation DR>files, re booted, installed whatever drivers, etc. and hung solid! DR>I've reformatted, tried to install Win2k with and without Win98 DR>installed, etc, can't get past that first rebook during DR>installation. DR>Wazzzup? Any ideas? I know I could probably re-install the EZFlyer DR>and it would work OK, but what the heck? DR>Meanwhile, I took advantage of the $49.90 price and got WindowsME. DR>It installs just fine, recognizes the SparQ and is running fine... DR>Hmmmmm.... fortunately, I know youse guys can fix it for me, please? DR>þ CMPQwk 1.42 28 þROM BIOS Error: Press to continue... David: Always a little help for a fellow CMPQwk user! (ain't too many of us around any more.) Remove the SparQ from the first IDE channel, (temporarily unhook it and remove the power connector) make sure your hard drive is properly setup and jumpered as master, and the CMOS program recognizes it. Install W2K to the primary boot partition as per normal. It should work now. After W2K and ME are up and running without problems, reinstall the SparQ as slave on the first IDE chain. Go into W2K and make sure it's picked up by the OS. I'm not sure if the SparQ drive can use DMA or not. You may want to take a look at that in WinME first to see if there's even a setting for it. (Control Panel, System, Devices) If there's no setting for DMA within WinME, it probably means it can't use it. Adjust the setting in W2K accordingly. AND! If you have previously installed Windows Media Player 7.0 to W2K - DO NOT install it again. It's got numerous conflicting problems with various hardware devices. This info is from the W2K MS sponsored newsgroup. Good luck. cscag@flash.net CMPQwk 1.42 1262 --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: COMM Port OS/2 juge.com 204.89.247.1 (281) 980-9671 (1:106/2000) .