At what point does this stop appear? 1. If its during initial set-up i.e. during the blue set-up screens, I suspect its because 2000 does not know about one or all of the disk controllers, if this is the case I would doubt that dell would provide a driver for Win2k for it to be supplied by pressing F6 during the initial set-up screen, you could try intel to see if they provide a win2k driver for the disk controllers if your using the standard chip-set controller or try the controller manufacturer if its an option card to see if they have a driver. 2. If you have successfully built the server and it is failing during use then its going to be one of your kernel mode drivers, disk/nic or other device. 0x0000001E ERROR_READ_FAULT winerror.h # The system cannot read from the specified device. 0xC0000005 STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION ntstatus.h # The instruction at "0x%08lx" referenced memory at # "0x%08lx". The memory could not be "%s". This is a good source for troubleshooting stop errors http://support.microsoft.com/kb/275678 along with this tool called err.exe found here http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=985