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12-22-2007, 08:46 PM
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Not sure what is going on here...
Happy holidays pcmechers... I'm visiting my father for the season's greetings and trying to work on his old Athlon box - he says that he put in an upgrade to XP and it doesn't work now. It won't shows the bios and the xp startup screen, then the screen goes blank. I tried booting from the upgrade CD but couldn't do that either. I tried booting from a Ubuntu CD but got a weird I/O error. Power supply seems ok, hard drive has been mounted in an external enclosure to backup data. What is going on here?
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12-22-2007, 09:18 PM
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Tanker Yanker
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Is this prebuilt or custome? Please list all specs by brand and model. Also include what type of psu you have..
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12-23-2007, 06:44 PM
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It's a custom build - I don't know the motherboard/psu at the moment. It's athlon 700mhz with 384mb ram. I just don't know why an xp upgrade would trash the system and make it unable to completely boot from anything... I'll try coming back with additional system specs later tonight if noone has any ideas. thanks
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12-23-2007, 06:59 PM
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Just to rule it out, it couldn't have been SP2 could it? Pretty good chance of problems on an older install of XP in that case...
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12-24-2007, 03:12 PM
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He was going to SP2 from Win 98. Looks like motherboard is MSI 6195 with ATI rage fury 64mb graphics. It's really weird, it flashes bios, goes to the screen where i pick start up in safe mode, then the screen goes blank after it starts booting.
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12-24-2007, 08:51 PM
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Are you trying to do a upgrade from 98 or a fresh install? I jsut did this to a machine that is almost 8yrs old and did a clean install of Xp with sp1 and had no issues.. You might want to see what type of hd you have then go to the manufacutures site and dowload the utility and check to see if the hd is going south..
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