I maintain our computers at my workplace, which run Win2K pro. I had to replace a motherboard in a Socket 462 Athlon machine which had a bad CMOS (CMOS checksum error on boot---tried new battery, cleared CMOS, tried fresh OS install, etc., finally found a broken cap on the board, thought maybe that was it). I replaced the board with a PC chips K7 board, VIA KT266A chipset, and upgraded from PC133 (legacy on the old board) to PC266 DDR memory. On first boot, I set the Date/Time, configured the bios settings, and then tried to boot Win. I received the BSOD and a STOP error with what looks like a memory address, and the message INACCESSIBLE_BOOT _DEVICE. I double checked the BIOS config, drive cables, jumper settings on the board and the drive (only one hard drive), tried different cables, tried a different power supply, tried to repair with the Win2K disk (recovery console and automatic), ran chkdsk on the drive, all to no avail. What is this? Is it a bad boot record? I ruled out a virus (no boot problems before except CMOS checksum error on occasion). I was able to log in to the installation at a prompt, but I really don't know where to go from there. I ended up reformatting, and reinstalling the OS, but I'd rather know how to repair it. I've seen this before on my own Win2K machine. Any ideas? Thanks.
