I have a problem which, so far, has defied solution. To start with, it is a charity job, which I should know better. It's hard to deny help to a disabled family member on a meger pension. The system has an Amptron K7-825DLU (PC Chips) board (ugh) with an AMD Duron 1.2 Gig proc and 256 Meg of ram. It had been working ok until recently. It began throwing the following error code on bootup, even before Windows 2000 loaded. The error is disk io error 00008001. I took the computer and looked into it. it had a Maxtor 8 gig and a segate 3 gig hard drive. I supposed that one of these tired relics was dying, and ordered a new WD800BB drive and a shielded ATA cable from New Egg. I installed the new drive and got the same code while attempting to format the new drive with windows 2000 Pro. The system functions after the code is thrown, but it causes me concern that this won't improve with age. I serched the Microsoft Knowledge base with no success. It has, in adition to the hard drive a generic 3.5" floppy, a Liteon 52k cD burner, and an Iomega 100M zip drive of undeterminate age. I am about to eliminate the zip and cd drives and see if that solves the problem. Any assistance would be appreciated.
Jim