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duel cpu machine having problems installing win nt...help !!
Name: Click Date: November 23, 2000 at 19:50:08 Pacific
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ok , first off its a hewlett packerd vectra xu 6/200 running duel 200 pent pros . 32 megs of ram and on board everything. setting up the bios seems simple enuff and i have successfully flashed the bios to its newest version. the machine auto detects drives and cd rom. fdisk assigns drive letters and win nt 4.0 installs all setup files askes for a reboot and says to remove floppys ect. after reboot , error message says "i/o error insert bootable media. i have tryed 3 hard drives now and it has been the same on each ..1 850 meg cavair western digital and 2 540 of same make/model. any ideas ? thanks Click
Name: NT Admin Date: November 24, 2000 at 09:51:16 Pacific
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Make sure you are using Windows NT multi-Prococessor edition. If you are not, remove on of the CPU's and try to install NT. If installation is sucessful Get a copy of NT Resource kit and there is a utility to allow the installation of a second processor. Also just a recomendation. I wouldnt even attempt to install Win NT with less than 128 Megs of RAM.
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Response Number 2
Name: NED Date: November 24, 2000 at 14:00:20 Pacific
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Dear Click, How did you make the 3 setup disks? My first opinion here is that the setups disks should be remade. Be sure to use the /ox switch.
Dear NT Admin, that resource kit utility , UPTOMP, I think it's called, is Very iffy, should not be used, MS has other ways now. I don't know the new way offhand, check the site.
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Response Number 3
Name: chas Date: November 25, 2000 at 09:23:37 Pacific
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nt wkst does not support multi processors ... and you must do a new install nor a reinstall in order for NT to ask you if you multi processors...at that time it will look and set it up
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Response Number 4
Name: Dude Date: November 27, 2000 at 11:04:34 Pacific
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I had a single PentiumPro 200 on IBM and NT srv 4.0. Later I added another same CPU but it didn't recognize it. I tried reinstall SP still no luck. Finally I reinstalled NT and everything worked well. Just FYI and good luck.
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