On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 09:03:58PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 16:51 +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
The first was a PIII-450 which *DID* have problems, and there was no way Win 2000 would go on - it started from the (SCSI) CD-ROM, but when it needed to refer to CD again, it refused to find it
That is a very common thing with Windows 2000/NT and some SCSI controllers. There is some keypress (F6 ? I can't remember) that has to be made at an exact point during the install phase (at least 2000 prompts for it *I think*) at that point you pop your SCSI drivers on a floppy and point it at them.
Yup, F6 is the magic key. Windows XP does this also, of course i'm not quite sure what happens if the machine doesn't have a floppy drive... and/or you don't have the drivers on a floppy. Then, Windows is supposed to be easy to install ;)
Adam