first moving a drive from one machine to another is never a good idea,
because of the differences in drivers for the mainboards chipset, this
rarely turns into a good build. You should be booting from the 2000
disk then as the install continues you will be prompted to install the
sata drivers. I do not believe this is a hardware incompatibility
problem. Just a software install problem. After the OS is done you
have to load the chipset drivers which may have been installed with
generic drivers from 2000(in your case probably not, as your board is
pretty new and 2000 most likely doesn't have native drivers.



"Kevin Lawton" wrote in message
...
Please can somebody help me - this is driving me nuts !
Put a new system together: XP2400 on a Gigabyte GA-7VRXP with 512 Mb
DDR2700, 60 Gb Seagate HD and Matrox G400 graphics.
Booted-up a DOS floppy fine and used FDISK to prep the drive.
Tried installing Windows 2000: All went easily until it came to the
part
where it re-boots and is 'running Windows for the first time' - it
just
hangs indefinitely ! :-) Tried several times - same result.
Did a fresh build of Win 2K with the drive installed on a Duron
1200, and
then moved the drive over to the XP2400. No complaints, no errors,
it just
hangs when the 'Starting Windows' progress stripe has completed.
Tried swapping memory and also tried swapping the motherboard for
another -
GA-7VRXP Rev 1.1 - even tried using a different hard drive and still
the
same hanging problem.
So, where do I go now ?
Does Windows 2000 have problems running on the XP series of Athlons
?
Does Windows 2000 have problems running on a Gigabyte GA-7VRXP
motherboard ?
I've had Windows 2000 installed on many other systems - Pentium MMX
200,
P-II 333, P-III 733, Athlon 1.0 & Athlon 1.4 - all fine. Whatever is
going
wrong on the XP2400 really has me stumped !
I'd be very grateful of any help offered.
TIA,
Kevin.