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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jw who wrote (10594)	3/5/2000 11:55:00 AM
From: wily	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

jw, Thanks for the win2K buying tips. A local store had oem for $129 plus tax so I grabbed it. Didn't get much farther than that though: ###### thing WILL NOT INSTALL!!! I'm almost too irritated to talk about it yet (it's been about a week since I gave up trying). I get a message on the second bootdisk that hal.dll will not load, error code 7. The thing that really gets me is I can't find anything about this error on the Microsoft site. I successfully installed a beta version of win2k server several months ago, but that was on a BP6 board. I'm working with a BH6 v1.02 now. And the beta-server won't install either. I'm thinking the board is not compatible, but I called Abit and they said it is. Tried posting to a couple newsgroups with no response and I didn't see anyone else with my problem. I might just get a BP6 board cuz I just feel it will go with that. BTW, the new 40G/7200 Maxtor drives are out. I got one at Staples for $300. Now I just got to figure what I'm going to do with it... wily PS I know you're going to ask did I do the BIOS update to NV something or other: yes, (cool thingie!).