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Andrew6123

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October 25th, 2005 14:00

GX620 WIndows 2000 SATA Drives

  • We installed Windows 2000 Server on the Developer PC to allow them to run the full version of IIS and SQL Server.  I split the drive into a 20GB C and a 218 GB D drive.  The OS is installed on c:
  • Within a day some of the PCs C: drive failed.  Some lasted for 3 days failed.  The master failed after 1 week.  All of their c: drives were corrupted.
  • We still have two GX620 with XP pro that has not failed.
  • I built a machine with Windows 2000 Server before SP4.  I then ran a burn-in software that wrote out to the hard drive for about 15 mins.  I repeated this test twice.  I then installed SP4 and then ran the burn-in software again  The hard drive failed after a few minutes.

The PC all have WD 250 Sata drives and a DVD-ROM that is installed as a PATA drive.  The DVD-ROM seems to be configured as a master. 

Any suggestion on installing Windows 2000 on a GX620

HolbrookBW

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November 9th, 2005 13:00

Have you found any solution yet? We are having a similar problem. Whost ghosting our standard Windows 2000-SP4 Image to any GX620, it boots fine and runs through SysPrep. SysPrep completes normally and reboots, then the system hangs during boot (just after agp440.sys, which I understand is the last driver before the kernel loads) and will stay hung forever. The blue/white bar continues to scroll, but no disk activity or anything else. If anybody finds out why Windows 2000 doesn't like the GX620 SATA drives, let us know!

Andrew6123

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November 9th, 2005 13:00

We have not found a solution to the Windows 2000 on a GX620.  In our case we were able to apply the Ghost image but after a few hours the C: drive crashed.  I narrowed the issue down to how Windows 2000 assigned the IDE channels.  It appears that the SATA and PATA (DVD ROM) drive is sharing the same IRQ.   On XP there are two IRQ.

The hot fixes from Microsoft did not work.  We final switched to XP and it is working fine. 

You may what to try the following:

  • Disconnect any PATA drives (IDE HD, DVD ROM or CD ROM).  Disable the drives in the BIOS also.
  • Load Windows 2000 and then the  GX620 chip driver.  Check the device manager to see if only one IDE channel was loaded.
  • Reattched the PATA drives and see what happens to the IDE channels.

You can also try installing an IDE Hard Drive as the boot drive.  You should also disable the SATA drive until you have finished loading Windows 2000 + SP and the drivers.

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