*** STOP: 0x0000001E (0xC0000005,0x8016A950,0x00000001,0x00000086) KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED*** Address 804F0E46 has base at 80400000, Datestamp 384d5a76 - ntoskrnl. exe Please advise i get the above stop error when installing windows2000 on a newly formatted hardrive with no other third party software/application currently installed. I have 6GB of hard disk space and 64mb of ram and i have turned off all caching in the BIOS. I have also established i have the latest version of the BIOS(Award Modular BIOS 4.51PG) that supports all windows applications as confirmed on the BIOS vendor website. Apart from the new hardware which is seagate i have also successfully installed windows 2000 on an identical model machine. What could be the problem?. In an attempt to trouble-shoot the problem i have tried to install NT 4 server and i get a stop message with the same file NTOSKRNL as the culprit. I dont understand why this file in itself should be a problem afterall its a newly formatted harddrive with no operating system apart from the one i am about to install.Its worthy of note too that each time i install windows 2000 the error varies between NTOSKRNL.exe and VIDEOPRT.SYS,but mostly the former To get around this problem i dont mind installing windows 98 but unfortunately i cannot access my CD rom drive,most likely because i have formatted the hardrive (I did not partition it however). How do i rectify this?. thanks for your help

Hi Andrew. If you're putting on Win2k server, 64mb is not supported, you will need at least 128mb of ram. I'm not sure about Professional, but am guessing it could be the same. If you put 98 back on, boot from the 98 cd and choose to boot with cd at startup. This will install a generic driver for the cdrom, and will retain the driver for the drive after 98 is up also.

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I had a similar problem with a nVIDIA video card. Make sure you go to the nVIDIA website and download the latest driver -- this fixed most of my problems. I had another similar one (I use AMD Duron CPU) until I went to the AMD site and downloaded a registry fix for the Duron-Athlon chip. Since I installed these fixes, the problem has not reoccured. Good luck.

I had that problem when installing W2K with Adaptec easy CD. Have you got this software on your pc? If yes I can tell you what to do about it.

Andrew: I work on my W2k Pro Edition with 64 mb without any problem. W2k detect any hardware problem during the installation. Often memory bank are the problem try changing memory. Some other time video or scsi card, but always the problem is the hardware.

Looks like a driver problem. Load in VGA mode (press F8 at boot time and select appropriate option). If it doesn't help then it's probably a service - to disable use recovery console and disable service from there.