hi everyone
I have an Asus P4G8X Deluxe motherboard, Intel Celeron 2,8 GHz processor and a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 (6E030L0 510201) 30 GB hard drive (connected with 80-pin IDE cable). I bought the mb, the processor and one 256 MB DIMM module about two months ago (so it's all new and presumably working). The entire configuration was running smoothly for about three weeks, then I started getting startup blue screens about registry corruption and soon afterwards the OS collapsed. To this day, I haven't managed to install it again.
The installation always halts on copy errors (lots of them - if I skip files, i get tens of them). I tried not just W2K, but also WXP and even W98, but none of that brought any success (which rules out the possibility of having faulty install disks). Then I suspected my hd, so I tried to install to another (8 GB WD 84AA), but with the same (negative) result. I checked both disks with W2K recovery console's chkdsk /r and in both cases I found that "the drive contains one or more unrecoverable errors", which I don't think is true. I updated BIOS to the latest version. Then I heard that my problem could be solved by using external hd controller driver during the installation. Not quite sure which one to choose, I tried two
http://www.asus.com/pub/asus/misc/ide/cmd648.zip
and
http://www.asus.com/pub/asus/misc/ide/iidewx.zip
but nothing changed. Today I tried to disable all of the advanced bios disk features - I disabled udma and set PIO to 0. No progress achieved...
The other day I even checked voltage. sadly, it was alright and yet again I had to look for a solution elsewhere. I have no clue about what to do next. Any help is highly appreciated, thanks a lot!
I have an Asus P4G8X Deluxe motherboard, Intel Celeron 2,8 GHz processor and a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 (6E030L0 510201) 30 GB hard drive (connected with 80-pin IDE cable). I bought the mb, the processor and one 256 MB DIMM module about two months ago (so it's all new and presumably working). The entire configuration was running smoothly for about three weeks, then I started getting startup blue screens about registry corruption and soon afterwards the OS collapsed. To this day, I haven't managed to install it again.
The installation always halts on copy errors (lots of them - if I skip files, i get tens of them). I tried not just W2K, but also WXP and even W98, but none of that brought any success (which rules out the possibility of having faulty install disks). Then I suspected my hd, so I tried to install to another (8 GB WD 84AA), but with the same (negative) result. I checked both disks with W2K recovery console's chkdsk /r and in both cases I found that "the drive contains one or more unrecoverable errors", which I don't think is true. I updated BIOS to the latest version. Then I heard that my problem could be solved by using external hd controller driver during the installation. Not quite sure which one to choose, I tried two
http://www.asus.com/pub/asus/misc/ide/cmd648.zip
and
http://www.asus.com/pub/asus/misc/ide/iidewx.zip
but nothing changed. Today I tried to disable all of the advanced bios disk features - I disabled udma and set PIO to 0. No progress achieved...
The other day I even checked voltage. sadly, it was alright and yet again I had to look for a solution elsewhere. I have no clue about what to do next. Any help is highly appreciated, thanks a lot!