I’m going to post this on a few likely newsgroups, but maybe somebody here has an idea or a suggestion for where else to post it:
I have a computer on which I have been running NT 4.0 (with various service packs, ending with 6a) for years without significant problems. For various reasons I replaced the Adaptec 2940UW SCSI controller with an Adaptec 29160, replaced one hard disk (a Seagate 8 GB UW SCSI) with an IBM 18 GB LVD/UW SCSI drive, low-level formatted the new hard disk and the remaining old hard disk (Seagate 4 GB UW SCSI) and installed Windows 2000 Professional v5.0.2195 from scratch. I used the W2K setup to partition the IBM disk 12 GB / 6 GB and create a single partition on the 4 GB disk. The 12 GB partition is the boot partition, and was formatted NTFS by setup. I formatted the other two partitions as NTFS after Win2K was installed. I looked on the Windows 2000 site but didn’t see any service packs or hot fixes that seemed useful.
Before doing all this, I ran the Win2K Readiness Analyzer, and it came up with no problems.
I kind of like Win2K, but …
I have seen more BSOD’s in the last 24 hours than I have in two years with 4.0 (and I’m good at causing problems, and usually good at fixing them). I get a BSOD every two hours or so. Usually (maybe always) the BSOD says:
"STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x00000000, 0x0000001C, 0x00000000,0x00000000)
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete."
If that isn’t enough, the system freezes incredibly often. 15 minutes of continuous operation is a miracle. I can’t see any pattern. It freezes with apps running, with no apps running, while accessing the disk, while accessing the network, while being acessed over the network, or while just sitting there. It just freezes and won’t respond to anything but the reset or power-off buttons.
I can’t find any indication of anything wrong anywhere, except the dn thing crashes. What the hl should I do???
System specs, all using the drivers installed by Setup except where noted:
Asus C-P6ND card with two identical Pentium Pro 200 CPUs (stepping 7) and Award BIOS 4.51PG (the one available on the Asus web site is older) with Award P&P BIOS Extensions 1.0a, Asus P/I-P65UP5 baseboard.
128 MB RAM, swap file 310 MB on boot drive.
Adaptec 29160 UW - UW160/LVD SCSI controller in a 32 bit PCI slot (I have no 64 bit slots, but the manual says it works) with BIOS 2.57.0, Adaptec Win2K driver 1.0 (the latest; the problems occurred before I installed this driver).
IBM DMVS18V 18 GB on the LVD bus. A sweet drive!
Seagate ST34371W 4GB, HP C1533A SureStore 6000 DDS-2 DAT, Matsushita CW-7502 CD burner (with latest firmware) on the SE bus.
No-name 44X CD-ROM and NEC 251 4-disk CD-ROM changer on IDE from the mainboard.
NETGEAR FA310TX Fast Ethernet Adapter on PCI.
Creative Ensoniq SoundBlaster with Creative driver 5.12.1.2007 (the latest) on PCI.
3dfx Voodoo3 3000 with BIOS 1.00.01-SD on PCI. No 3dfx driver later than the one installed by Setup is available.
Microsoft Intellipoint PS/2 mouse with Intellipoint driver 3.20.0.484 (the latest).
USR Courier v.everything external modem on COM2, unused but detected by Win2K.
Brother MFC 4400 printer/fax/scanner on LPT1, using HP Laserjet IIP driver from Win2K.
No ISA cards. All IRQ’s assigned by P&P.
System tray programs (although this was happening before they were installed):
Norton Antivirus 2000 6.00.03.
Creative Mixer.