Thanks, JAD.
I don't have SATA. Not on the board and can't afford the expensive drives
anyway.
Expected that loading the m/board drivers would be the next step once the
system had booted Windows 2000 properly, but it didn't get that far. Would
have expected that Windows default 'vanilla' drivers would get the system
booting - but with just basic graphics and slow IDE. Any need for drivers
should have shown once Windows 2000 was running for the first time,
shouldn't it ? If that isn't the case then how can I get round the problem
?
The system has so far been 'minimal build' - just mobo, proc, memory,
graphics, floppy and hard drive - to keep it simple. Once that was working
then I'd add other bits (CDRW, DVD, sound, SCSI) one at a time.
Still lost and confused by this problem as the system works fine in DOS,
booted from either floppy or HD.
Kevin.

JAD wrote:
| 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.