From: Chris Robinson 

Hello again,

I recently replaced two old(ish) HP workstations with two new ones. This
all went well (after some teething problems relating to Graphics card
drivers) but now I've come to sort out the one's I replaced (clean them up/
redistribute them).  They both run NT4 SP6a and have SCSI Hard Drives.  A
dodgy SCSI cable in another PC ment I had to remove the SCSI cable from one
of these PC's temporarily so's I could get another PC up and running.  I've
now replaced the SCSI cable in the old HP and NT now bluescreens on boot
up* (I've tried 2 other different SCSI cables and get the same result - all
these cables work in the PC I had to temporarily swap them into).  Here's
what I've tried already (n.b.  It's worth mentioning that I'm trying this
on two identical HP Kayak XW Workstations - I've tried everything below on
BOTH of the PC's):

- When I boot the PC I get the option to run SCSI disk utilities - I've
tried verifying the Hard Drive (this works fine).

- I thought I'd try an NT repair - I don't have an ERD but it finds the
installation no porblems.  NT then says it's made changes to the disk that
require me to restart and re-run the repair process (no porbs thinks me,
I've seen this before) but I reboot and re-run the repair and I get the
same message - I'm stuck in an eternal loop here.

- I then thought I might aswell try to reinstall NT from scratch.  I
boot to the NT CD, select to format in NTFS (this goes OK).  NT then starts
to copy files.  It goes fine but it fails to copy some files (always the
same files - NTOSKRNL.EXE, NTFS.SYS) - is this because these reside on a
particular part of the disk?.

* There is one of the cables that I get:
    "TRAP 0000000E ====== PAGE FAULT =======
    ** At liniar address 00000000"
 This isn't an NT BSOD though - it's just a regular Black screen before
NT even loads.

I completely confused - my knowledge of SCSI is far from vast and my
experience with it so far has had me wanting to break things ;o)  The thing
I find odd about it is that a cable could be screwed but could still
work... a bit - that's the nice thing about IDE - if it doesn't work, it
doesn't work...

Appologies for making you all read this mini-novel of a post ;o)

Chris.

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