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04-03-2005, 10:45 PM
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WinXP Pro installation problem
recently bought a copy of winxp pro and tried to install into my com but it got hang during the winxp loading screen.
so may i know if someone konws how to solve it? |
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04-03-2005, 10:48 PM
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Can you give us a little bit of information about your machine, is it store bought or custom built? can you give us some hardware specifications? and what if any was the original operating system?.
Have you formatted the hard drive?
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04-03-2005, 11:07 PM
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intel p4 2.80E 800Mhz 1MB
ASUS P4P800E deluxe P4 kingston 256/400 DDR ram seagate 120GB 7200 B-7 serial ata sapphire radeon 9600 256mb ddr the os now i'm using is given by a friend so not sure whether it's from original source but now i've bought an original copy of winxp pro. i've followed all the steps in installing the winxp...... reformat, etc.... |
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04-03-2005, 11:12 PM
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Do you have any USB devices plugged into the machine? or any other devices like printer or scanner?
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04-03-2005, 11:14 PM
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yes...... will that have effect on the installation progress?
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04-03-2005, 11:17 PM
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Yes it will, unplug everything except the monitor keyboard and mouse, go into the bios and make sure the Cd drive you have the XP disk in is the first boot device.
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04-04-2005, 07:59 AM
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still doesn't work...... i unplugged everything and install but it still got hang during the winxp loading page..... is there any porblem with my com?
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04-04-2005, 08:09 AM
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The copy of XP that you borrowed from a friend to test your machine, did it install and run OK or have you never managed to get an OS working on this machine?
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04-04-2005, 08:11 AM
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yes it works....... but the original one doesn't work......
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04-04-2005, 08:20 AM
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Try to unplug electricity from your comp for say 20 minutes and then try again.
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04-04-2005, 08:40 AM
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04-05-2005, 06:15 AM
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i went back to the shop and told them the problem.... so they tested the original xp cd on their com and it works well in their com........ there wasn't anything wrong with the cd..... so that was where i think maybe my com has some problems....
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04-05-2005, 04:53 PM
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Have you got access to another CD player you can put in your machine to test? it's possible the lens is dirty on your CD player or something else in your CD player is malfunctioning.
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