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07-20-2005, 09:58 AM
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win xp pro installation problem
Trying to do a clean install of win xp pro from the cd. After the first reboot the system will freeze on the xp screen that has the blue moving dots. What I do not understand is that I have a copy of win 2000 which will install fine. Any help and or ideas will be greatly appreciated.
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07-20-2005, 10:04 AM
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Is it freezing? - How long have you left it installing before saying it's frozen?
And don't take offense to this next question, but, is it a legit CD? |
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07-20-2005, 10:20 AM
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When I say freezing I mean that after it goes through the blue screens which include the file copying and formatting it will come to the first reboot screen and it will shut down, then will come back on and when the main xp screen with those moving blue dots comes up it just stops or freezes up. The dots freeze and that is where it stays. I hope that makes sense. Yes, it is a legit cd.
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07-20-2005, 11:07 AM
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I have seen it do that and it was looking for the network set-up to load the proper drivers and other things. sometimes it can take a while, and sometimes you just need to reboot the system to get past that point if it hangs, then it will tell you what the hang up was, and sometimes it has a hard time locateing all the proper drivres, and is creating a list of possible errors,
but not always, there may some hardware it don't like too. most of the time it will install smothely, also the firstmost cause of it doing that will be a possible bad ram stick, it can be fussy on the type of ram that is in the system. |
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07-20-2005, 12:40 PM
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make sure you remove all devices (printers, usb devices, firewire, etc) plugged into the pc while installin XPpro.
after removing all devices does it still freeze?
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07-20-2005, 03:10 PM
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The only things hooked to it are the mouse keyboard and the monitor. The thing I still can not understand is why win 2000 will install and xp won`t.
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07-20-2005, 04:03 PM
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Shiro Usagi
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Post your complete system specs by brand and model.
Is this a name brand computer or a home built? Any PCI cards installed?  Cricket
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07-20-2005, 07:45 PM
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home built-no pci cards only agp graphic card.
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07-21-2005, 02:03 PM
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If you have a slower cdrom,try installing it with that,make sure the cd is clean and hard drives are properly jumpered,what hard drives are you using?
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07-21-2005, 04:36 PM
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I am just using one. An IBM 100GB.
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07-22-2005, 01:08 PM
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Have you formatted the drive and how is it jumpered?
Are you using a 40 wire or 80 wire ide ribbon? |
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