Matrox G400 Max + Iwill VD133 Gold + Win2k won't install!

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Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 00:00

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I have a G400 Max DH and it ran great with Windows 2000 on my old Abit Bx6
mobo.  I got a new Iwill VD133 Gold and tried to do a clean install of
Windows 2000.  The installation will get to the point where I've booted up
in the GUI and it's detecting plug and play et all hardware.  When the
progress bar is about halfway, the screen starts blanking in and out -
presumably because it's checking my video hardware, and it says to expect
it - great.  Suddenly, after a little while of blanking in and out, I get
the infamous blue screen, with a simple, non-helpful message on the top left
of the screen -
"Hardware Failure
Please contact vendor"

and my computer is frozen.

I've tried all different kinds of bios settings and ripped every card except
the g400 out of the machine, same thing, even starting from scratch.

I would never believe there actually IS a hardware failure of any kind - the
exact same system Win2k refuses to install on is currently running great
under Win98 SE, Linux, and Windows Millenium beta....

Any ideas as to what gives?

Please cc to email - beidson@calpoly.edu

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From: "nntp.we.mediaone.net" <beidson@calpoly.edu>
Subject: Matrox G400 Max + Iwill VD133 Gold + Win2k won't install!
Date: 2000/05/26
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