I just installed W2K on an existing Win98 machine like this:
c =Win98 drive 0 (FAT32)
d= W2K drive 1 (NTFS)

There are other partitions on both drives but they are not a problem. After I installed W2K, which went very smooth, I was able to boot into W2K without a problem however once I started adding the various drivers for modem, scanner, display adapter, sound blaster, etc., I now cannot boot into W2K without this BSOD reading;

Stop: 0x0000001E (0xC0000005, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED

From all the research I've done it should be a driver problem or a hardware problem but if it booted successfully with the same hardware before adding drivers then I assume it must be driver(s).

All the sites and Microsoft KB, suggest that if it's a driver then it should have a reference to it at the end of the above statement but I have nothing but the bolded statement above and then the standard explanation that somethings wrong, blah blah.

Also curious is the "C" in the first parameter. I can't find a reference to it or what it stands for.

OK, here's what I did. I used safe mode (yes, it boots to safe mode just fine) and deleted all the software I installed; nvidia drivers, sound blaster drivers, modem drivers, scanmaker software & drivers (USB) and NIC drivers. That's everything. No apps were added at all before the problem.

I uninstalled (safe mode) the Audio, modem, NIC, ports, display adapter (back to VGA) and scanner.

I was able to dial out after the first setup and download SP3 from MS so the modem worked fine, the display was fine and everything seemed just great. Then I rebooted. Bummer. After all that I still get the same BSOD with the same message.

Sorry for the length here but you all know the more the better. Any ideas folks ???

Home built clean, 1Ghz Athlon, 512 MB, partition D is 5GB's, ASUS A7Ve, eVGA Nvidia MX400, HSP Micromodem (I know but it worked fine and has for a long while with my Win98 install) DVD/CD and CD-RW and Viewsonic 19".

Let me know if you need any other info. By the way I tried a repair from the install CD and it found WINNT on the wrong partition "H" which is the other partition on that drive, but it ran through the repair and said it was successful but it was no help.