Windows nt workstation setup

If your computer is running:. Shut Down. Shut down the computer. Switch on the computer and interrupt the boot process by pressing F8 to select the actual boot device. A list of tasks will appear:. This enables the mouse to work with Windows NT during the installation process. Once the process is completed, the proper mouse drivers will be installed and you will no longer need to attach the mouse manually. The names of the dialog boxes in this procedure may change, depending on your installation.

The instructions remain the same. When you have finished, click Next. Type your administration password in the dialog box, and then type it again to confirm that this is the password you want to use. The following message is displayed: Setup is preparing to initialize Windows NT installation. When the setup process is complete, the following message is displayed: Setup is configuring your workstation to use Windows NT.

The Saving Configuration screen appears with a progress bar. When the process is complete, the SunPCi software reboots. When you log in for the first time, Windows NT executes some additional commands before completing the installation. When these commands are complete, the Windows NT desktop is displayed. Windows NT defaults to an Administrator login with no password. Proceed to the following section. The Passwords screen is displayed, with the user name Administrator appearing in the User field by default.

As soon as the "Windows NT is examining your hardware configuration" message appears, press F5. This takes you to a menu with various HAL s listed. Setup is using reserved memory. Windows NT tries to find a valid hard disk drive and partition, poll the adapters, and test the bus. This is the most likely point of failure, when the drivers are loaded into memory and multithreading is initialized. When a mission critical operating system fails, is preferable to generate an obvious error message, such as the blue screen, rather than to simply fail in an "invisible" manner and possibly corrupt data.

The blue screen consists of a STOP message, the text translation, the addresses of the violating call, and the drivers loaded at the time of the STOP screen. SYS The STOP message identifies the type of exception, and the exception indicates where the problem occurred; that is, whether it was user mode involving user-mode operating system software or kernel mode involving operating system, third-party drivers, or hardware.

The third and fourth line describe which components were immediately involved and at what addresses. For example, if the above error occurred during Setup, the problem might be in the driver that involves the SCSI portion of the operating system. If you are sure all of the above are correctly configured, you can try swapping out the SCSI controller card for another and try installing again. Resolution 1: This indicates a problem accessing the boot disk using Windows NT's driver.

Problem 2: After removing the third setup disk from the computer and rebooting, a blue screen with the location "0x4,0,0,0" appears, and Setup stops there. Resolution 2: This usually indicates the presence of a virus in the boot record of the system. Problem 3: Your system hangs when rebooting into character-based setup. Resolution 3: The Windows NT 4. If your system has the ability to boot from a compact disc, but does not support "no emulation mode," remove the compact disc and restart the computer.

Once Windows NT Setup has restarted, insert the installation compact disc. EXE is missing or corrupt" appears. However, if the Windows NT 3. DLL is missing or corrupt. You can work around this problem by setting the J14 jumper on the motherboard for a dual-processor computer, even though the computer has only one processor. Replace HAL. The system is halting. Resolution 6: This error message occurs when a computer attempts to boot with a symmetric multiprocessing SMP hardware abstraction layer HAL on a computer with Multi-Processor Specification MPS architecture that currently has only a single processor.

If a second processor is added later, you may need to manually copy and rename the correct HAL file. Resolution 7: Boot from a system disk. If you need to access the previous operating system multiple times, boot from the previous operating system and, with a text editor, modify Boot. After you make this value a negative number, the following error message appears: Invalid Timeout Entry You can disregard this error message.

If the error is hardware related, you may receive an error message from the BIOS or from Windows NT in the form of a blue screen with a stop error message containing a hexadecimal number at the top of the screen, such as: 0x, 0xf, 0xa, 0x, 0x,0x, 0xf, 0xe, or, 0xd. Resolution 8: Check your system for viruses, or for hard disk drive corruption.

For a virus scan, please use any available commercial virus scanning software that examines the Master Boot Record MBR of the drive. These errors may also be a result of hard disk drive corruption. Use a diagnostic utility to test the RAM in your computer.

Check that all adapter cards in your computer are properly seated. You can use an ink eraser or Stabilant to clean the adapter card contacts. Finally, if all the above fail to correct the issue, take the system motherboard to a repair facility for diagnostic testing. A crack, scratched trace, or bad component on the motherboard can also cause these problems. Problem 9: On rebooting from character-based to GUI-based Setup, the screen shows that NTOSKRNL is loading, then before or at the version screen, either of the following stop codes appear: 0xA -or- 0xE Resolution 9: This may indicate the presence of a third-party driver at the system level that is incompatible with the version of Windows NT you are upgrading to, or a corrupted driver that did not get copied correctly during the text- mode portion of Setup.

Try installing Windows NT into a clean directory. If it installs correctly, try to access the first tree and replace the corrupted file or remove the files associated with any suspect third-party drivers. If you are unable to install Windows NT into a separate tree, check all essential hardware, including adapter cards, drive controllers, and so on. If you have nonessential adapter cards in the system, remove them and try the installation again.

Also verify that the essential hardware in use is Windows NT certified and has up-to-date firmware, if applicable. Problem After you reboot, the video does not come back; that is, it stays "black" or the video is skewed.

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