BSOD installing W2K on PC-Card

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We are trying to install W2K on a PC-Card.

  • Standard PC with standard IDE bus
  • SiliconTech 1.6GB Flash memory PC-Card
  • “Pass through” adapter device that allows PC-Card connection to IDE bus
  • PC-Card is configured as IDE master on primary IDE bus
  • CD-ROM drive configrued as master on secondary IDE bus
  • No other devices on IDE busses. No other storage devices attached to the
    computer.

Running W2K setup from the CD-ROM everything goes just fine until the first
reboot in the process. Blue screen of death pops up on the reboot with a
0x7F error, all parameters 0x0000.

This same computer setup will install and boot from the PC-Card with Win95,
98, ME and NT. Dies on W2K. Does anyone have any ideas?

Alan

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These articles might be useful.

PC Card Device May Not Work in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q281/5/05.ASP

HOWTO: Access Attribute Memory of PC Cards
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q308/0/38.ASP

Niraj

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Subject: [ntdev] BSOD installing W2K on PC-Card

We are trying to install W2K on a PC-Card.

  • Standard PC with standard IDE bus
  • SiliconTech 1.6GB Flash memory PC-Card
  • “Pass through” adapter device that allows PC-Card connection to IDE bus
  • PC-Card is configured as IDE master on primary IDE bus
  • CD-ROM drive configrued as master on secondary IDE bus
  • No other devices on IDE busses. No other storage devices attached to the
    computer.

Running W2K setup from the CD-ROM everything goes just fine until the first
reboot in the process. Blue screen of death pops up on the reboot with a
0x7F error, all parameters 0x0000.

This same computer setup will install and boot from the PC-Card with Win95,
98, ME and NT. Dies on W2K. Does anyone have any ideas?

Alan

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These are good. Thank you.

I don’t think I can use them though. I am installing the PC-Card as the
boot drive. I can’t get to the point where I can apply a hotfix because I
am installing from CD to the PC-Card. This may explain the source of the
problem but I can’t get around it since I can’t apply the hotfix.

I checked the card to see if it has the configuration info in the
common memory instead of the attribute memory, the condition that triggers
the problem. It has all the config info in the attribute memory. Plus,
the article specifies a problem in PCMCIA.SYS. Since the card is in an IDE
interface device, PCMCIA access is not used. The computer should see the
card as an IDE drive.

Perhaps there is a capacity problem? Is 1.6GB enough space to install
W2K?

Boy, this is turning into an off-topic discussion really fast. Sorry to
eat the bandwidth with “non-development” questions.

Alan

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