I posted response #5. Just thought I would update all on my progress with this problem. I hope to have more time to isolate it this week. I have called Promise tech support, they have never seen the problem before. I referred them to computing.net and the other people having the problem. They seemed interested in the problem and are looking into it. They asked me to try to isolate the problem by just installing my ATI Rage Fury video card and no other devices and re-loading Win2000. Then if that runs without error, I'll install the Ultra 100 card. They think the problem may be caused by another card, so if it runs with the Promise card, I'll install the rest of my cards one at a time. I also called ASUS, because everyone that has had the problem so far is using an ASUS board. They seemed less willing to help me, but said they had never seen the problem before, I referred them to the posts in computing.net, but they wouldn't even look at the web site. I'm posting my detailed configuration in hopes that there are more hardware in common than ASUS and Promise, hope this helps. Please post if you have other hardware in common with me: ASUS P3B-F P III / 500MHz Slot 1 192MB PC100 RAM Rage Fury 32MB AGP card PCI Slot 1 - Empty PCI Slot 2 - Promise Ultra/100 Quantum 30GB Fireball AS U/100 7200RPM (Primary Master) Fujitsu 6.4GB U/33 (Secondary Master) PCI Slot 3 - Allied Telesyn AT-2500TX 10/100 Ethernet card PCI Slot 4 - Creative Sound Blaster 16 PCI PCI Slot 5 - AOpen FM56-P Modem PCI Slot 6 - Empty Onboard IDE Primary - Acer 6206 - CDRW Drive (Master) Panasonic - ZIP100 Internal (Slave) Secondary - Acer 640a - 40X CD-ROM (Master)

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I'm running into the exact same problem as PHG (response #3): KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED Adress BFFBBBBE at BFFA2000 DateStamp 3946cc08; setupdd.sys i've never had a problem with my WinMe/Win2000 dual boot configuration before until just a couple days ago i rebooted my system and hit a blue screen for a fraction of a second (too quick to read) before it rebooted again automatically. booting in safe modes and last known good configuration start the same reboot loop. i attempted to boot up with a win2k bootdisk set, but sure enough right after it completed its initial load, the bsod came up and stayed (kmode_exception, etc).. i can't say for sure if this is the exact same message as when booting from the hard drive, but i'd bet it is. i can still access the win2k fat32 partition from my windows me drive, and i've run a thorough disk surface scan on the win2k drive with no errors. still haven't come up with a solution other than to kill it and reformat. my config: Harddisk 0 (c) Win Millenium; 30 gig maxtor Harddisk 1 (d) dos; 14gig ibm desktar Harddisk 2 (e) Windows 2000; 6.4 gig maxtor cdr/rw yamaha CRW2100e (g) Abit BH6 P2 Celeron 300A slot1 128 mb ram nvidia geforce agp diamond technologies pci soundcard 336ifx modem

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Hi, I've posted here earlier as I'm having these BSOD per hour problem (see above). I've found the culprit to my problem. It turns out that my Western Digital 30GB ATA100 hard drive is faulty. I just got it replaced with identical hard drive (on Promise Ultra00) and reinstall Win2k. Now, Win2k is running smoothly and no more BSOD. Prior to replaciong the hard drive, I've connected the ATA66 socket, and no BSOD as what everyone expects. My hard drive did not exactly went dead but faulty. Win98 ran just fine. I guess Win2k is a little too sensitive to hardward glitches, thus suspending to BSOD. Also, for your information, windows surface scan did not detect errors with my hard drive. I found that it's faulty with WD diagnostic tool. Hope this can shed some lights on the problem. Good luck.

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I've almost similar configuration with Four-Point (Response no. 7). ASUS P3B-F P III / 500MHz Slot 1 256MB PC133 RAM Creative RIVA TNT2 32MB AGP card PCI Slot 1 - Promise Ultra/100 Maxtor 20GB U/66 7200RPM (Primary Master) IBM 20GB U/100 (Primary Slave) PCI Slot 2 - Empty PCI Slot 3 - 3COM EtherLink 10/100 PCI TX NIC PCI Slot 4 - Empty PCI Slot 5 - Creative SoundBlaster Live PCI Slot 6 - Empty Last ISA Slot - US Robotics 33.6 Internal Modem Onboard IDE Primary Master - Creative Infra 52X My Win2K was running fine for the past 2 months, until recently I got exactly the same error like the rest of you. The error is recurring after rebooted around an hour's time. I've just upgraded to SP2 few days ago, hoping that the problem will be solved but it turned out to be negative. I then visited the Microsoft Product Supports Site for an answer. Microsoft has confirmed that it is a problem in the Win2K but gives no solution to it. The cause to the error is when the redirector (the OS) extends certain allocation sizes, it does not update Cache Manager with the changes which causes the computer to stop responding (hang). Does anyone came out with new findings or solutions? Any comment about the CLASSPNP.SYS? It seems to be closly linked with the above problems.

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Had same problem - computer blue screens every hour and then reboots. Original error message from event log was: The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000001e (0xc0000005, 0xed0432d1, 0x00000000, 0x00000028). Microsoft Windows 2000 [v15.2195]. A dump was saved in: C:\WINNT\Minidump\Mini101201-05.dmp. I tried everything reinstall, bios update, memory change etc etc... I eventually ran the Western Digital diagnostic software which found an error during the quick self test. I then created a diagnostic disk using EZmaker.exe (available from www.westerndigital.com) and installed the diagnostic tools. This fixed the problem to the following extent: the computer no longer crashed every hour. However, I now get the following error: The description for Event ID ( 26 ) in Source ( Ultra ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following information is part of the event: \Device\Scsi\Ultra1. I am going to claim warranty on the hard drive and see how I go with a new drive. Will let everyone know how this goes. Steven.

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This is what (finally) worked for me. I too have a Maxtor HD. Used MaxBlast from their website and did a low-level format, and then partitioned and formatted it using their software also. Then I copied the entire Windows 2000 CD to the HD. Then I booted off a WIndows 98 startup disk and entered the following to start the DOS-based setup of Windows 2000: c:\i386\winnt It'll ask you where you put the WIndows 2000 files, tell them and commence installing.

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