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Windows 2000 Install Loop

LavaLampTechLavaLampTech
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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.

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  • BF10BF10

    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.

  • WindowsMilesProwlerStewartWindowsMilesProwlerStewart

    @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.

  • TetriserTetriser
    Having the same problem as well but I'm using VMware Player here. Any solutions for this one?
  • jonirobjonirob
    @Tetriser
    Try using an emulator instead of VMware, 86Box works fine for Windows 2000.
  • nick99nacknick99nack
    What service pack are you installing? Installing from SP4 media may not have this issue.
  • os2fan2os2fan2
    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.
  • HeadsetGuyHeadsetGuy
    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).
  • italianGrandpaitalianGrandpa
    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.
  • TetriserTetriser
    @jonirob Sorry for the late comment, but I did try running 2000 on 86Box.
    I got a weak hardware tho (using a Ryzen 3 3200G over here) so emulating a faster CPU will slow it down significantly.

    But that might be 86Box's fault, haven't tried with PCem yet but I suppose that might yield the same result.
  • slackingfredslackingfred
    I saw the same error when trying to install 2K on VMware on a latest 5.2GHz AMD platform :s
    Don't know how to set the IRQ delay for VMware, so what I did was -- move the VM to my older 2.9GHz computer... and it installed just fine, now running okay after moving back to the 5.2GHz PC.
  • PaxtonPenguinPaxtonPenguin
    I also had this problem when trying to install bsd on virtbox. It's not an issue with win2000 or your pc
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