Windows 2000 Install Loop

LavaLampTech

So, I have tried to install both Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 2000 Advanced Server, both of which have the same problem. I can get through the first part of setup (the blue background and plain text screen) and I can complete the second part of setup (the GUI), but when it reboots at the end of the second setup phase, it restarts the second phase of setup all over again. Does anyone know how to remedy this? I am using VirtualBox with all of its recommended settings for the VM.

BF10

https://superuser.com/questions/947161/when-installing-windows-2000-on-virtualbox-i-get-a-boot-loop

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch12.html#idm11277

This is because there is a race condition that happens too fast. Hypervisors like VirtualBox and VMWare tends to emulate your current hardware instead of actual one, and thus can cause problems if your processor or requests is too fast. You can use "VBoxManage setextradata "VM name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/piix3ide/0/Config/IRQDelay" 1" command without the quotes before the "VBoxManage" and after the "1" to set a delay.

WindowsMilesProwlerStewart

@BF10 said:
https://superuser.com/questions/947161/when-installing-windows-2000-on-virtualbox-i-get-a-boot-loop

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch12.html#idm11277

This is because there is a race condition that happens too fast. Hypervisors like VirtualBox and VMWare tends to emulate your current hardware instead of actual one, and thus can cause problems if your processor or requests is too fast. You can use "VBoxManage setextradata "VM name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/piix3ide/0/Config/IRQDelay" 1" command without the quotes before the "VBoxManage" and after the "1" to set a delay.

Thanks for the info.

Tetriser

Having the same problem as well but I'm using VMware Player here. Any solutions for this one?

jonirob

@Tetriser
Try using an emulator instead of VMware, 86Box works fine for Windows 2000.

nick99nack

What service pack are you installing? Installing from SP4 media may not have this issue.

os2fan2

You could be running into the 48bitLBA problem. See, eg https://msfn.org/board/topic/75713-48-bit-lba-on-win2k-setup/page/2/?tab=comments#comment-590337

This is a batch I wrote that edits the registry that setup uses when it boots. None of the base disks have it. If you apply this, the blue-screen stuff should disappear.

Alternately, use a smaller disk to install Windows 2000 on.

HeadsetGuy

I'm having the same issue but in VMware; I'm using Windows 2000 Professional SP4 media. I have it configured with just an 8 GB SCSI disk. The weird part is that Windows 2000 Server (not Advanced) works fine with a larger disk (18 GB).

italianGrandpa

ANSWER: Currently using VMware Workstation Pro 16.2x - on a Gaming Rig that has 20 Logical Processors and 256 GB RAM. It's not the processor running into a panic. It's a IRQ conflict / Driver Malfunction as the installer tries to load base drivers during the installation and your hardware is too far ahead.

Remove the Network Adapter, USB Controller, Sound Card and Printer from the Virtual Device and start over from full scratch. Add the hardware back once setup and everything completed.

PS; Don't forget to remove the CD-ROM at the end when it tells you.