Problems with an XP installation
Tim
Southwest PA Icrontian
I'm having trouble getting XP Home installed on a computer. This is something I've done many times, and have never seen this problem before.
Once the OS CD is in and you turn the computer on, after it tells you to hit any key to boot from CD, the next screen after that is a blue screen with "Windows Setup" in the top left.
Then in a few seconds, at the bottom of the screen, it'll start saying how it is installing some stuff and getting ready to go.
But in THIS computer's case, it doesn't get that far. It just sits on the blue screen with Windows Setup in the top left, and the words at the bottom never appear. I let it go 10 -20 minutes a few times. I've tried clearing the CMOS, pulling the motherboard battery out and draining all power off the motherboard, a couple different hard drives and CD drives, setting the BIOS screen to 'optimal defaults' and to 'failsafe defaults', changing the boot order, making sure the drives were listed with the CD-ROM 1st and the hard drive 2nd, etc.
Nothing seems to work.
I also tried pulling and reseating the RAM sticks.
It's a Socket 775 motherboard with a P4 3.0 Ghz cpu in it, 512 ram in 2 256 mb sticks, the motherboard is an Intel 915 GM chipset version 1.0 .
Any ideas?:confused2
Once the OS CD is in and you turn the computer on, after it tells you to hit any key to boot from CD, the next screen after that is a blue screen with "Windows Setup" in the top left.
Then in a few seconds, at the bottom of the screen, it'll start saying how it is installing some stuff and getting ready to go.
But in THIS computer's case, it doesn't get that far. It just sits on the blue screen with Windows Setup in the top left, and the words at the bottom never appear. I let it go 10 -20 minutes a few times. I've tried clearing the CMOS, pulling the motherboard battery out and draining all power off the motherboard, a couple different hard drives and CD drives, setting the BIOS screen to 'optimal defaults' and to 'failsafe defaults', changing the boot order, making sure the drives were listed with the CD-ROM 1st and the hard drive 2nd, etc.
Nothing seems to work.
I also tried pulling and reseating the RAM sticks.
It's a Socket 775 motherboard with a P4 3.0 Ghz cpu in it, 512 ram in 2 256 mb sticks, the motherboard is an Intel 915 GM chipset version 1.0 .
Any ideas?:confused2
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The WD 200 GB hard drive that was in the computer was shot, I confirmed that by hooking it up in 2 other computers and they couldn't find the drive either.
But this computer DID load up Intrepid Ibex smoothly and with no problems. If I had any experience in Ubuntu I'd have it fold on that.
Right now I've got an OLD 15 GB hard drive formatting in my main PC, then I'll install 98 on it, then once it is hooked up to this other PC, maybe it'll work then and I can get it loaded up to XP or at least Windows 2000.
Any other ideas what the failure might be? Something on the motherboard, maybe?
After some looking online for an ethernet driver, I found one on the board manufacturer's (ECS) website, a Realtek 8139, and got the ethernet working.
Now it's updating from the Microsoft site, getting service packs and other stuff.