Windows 2000 Hangs on Boot

[rahamanpatrick]

Hi, I just installed Windows 2000 Professional and everything worked fine, until I had to finally boot. Everything goes well and I see the normal splash screen but when It gets to the last bar loading it freezes. The logo, particularly the orange square also becomes pixelated and some of it turns to white, you can see this in the screenshot. It's usually a solid colour. It sounds like the processor is working on something but nothing happens, I left it on for almost half an hour and still nothing. Any ideas? (I'm only using 2000 because XP needs to many resources).

Screentshot: http://us.share.geocities.com/osborn...screenshot.jpg

[glc]

Full system specs, please.

[rahamanpatrick]

Model: Dell Dimension L550r
Processor: Intel Pentium III E proccessor running at 548Mhz.
RAM: 256 MB
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce 4 MX
Motherboard: Unknown

Are there any other specs you might need? I forgot to mention that it boots fine in safe mode and on the front of the case it says the computer was designed for Windows 2000 Professional. I am actually writing this from safe mode.

[rahamanpatrick]

New Information: The computer actually boots fine using the onboard video adapter, I switched it to use to onboard in the BIOS and it booted fine, I installed the Nvidia drivers and switched it back to the PCI adapter and it had the same problem. When it was stuck on the boot screen however, I switched the VGA cable to the onboard adapter and found 2000 was working fine, when I switched back to the PCI graphics card it was still on the splash screen.

[Panama Red]

Sounds like the video cards are fighting for priority. Go in the bios and disable the onboard if you wnat to use the pci card. Or just use the onboard and remove the pci card.

[rahamanpatrick]

Any ideas on how to disable the onboard? In the Video Adapter section I switched it to use the PCI adapter, still the same problem though and even thought I set it to use the PCI adapter it still outputs on the onboard.

[Panama Red]

Maybe a silly question but why do you need the card? Why not just use the onboard?

[chuck4456]

Those POWER SUPPLIES were only 145watts. If it's the original, it may not have enough juice to run that PCI card. The onboard graphix in the L550r were run by a driver that was installed with the DELL Utilities CD that came with it. If you can't disable the onboard in DEVICE MANAGER, you will have to remove the driver from the ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS list; if you intend to use the video card. You won't notice much difference with that old MX4000 anyway. Just stick to onboard.

[rahamanpatrick]

The PSU ran the graphics card fine when I had XP installed on the computer (I removed it because it wasn't running fast enough). Also, its true I don't need the graphics card desperately, but the onboard ain't that great and I'd like some decent graphics processing. Of course if it can't be fixed I can live with it, would be nice to have it though.