hhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllllllllppppppppppp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mad_mike]

hi. not sure if this is in the right place or not but here it goes any way. i was tring to upgrade xp on my pc earlyer as i have 98se on it right now, but once it had restarted it gave me a option to chose between windows (98) or xp setup and i just left it to auto select and do its own thing, it went in to xp start up and started to check the system like nomal and then it went to copy the files ,and this is were the problems started, it would not copy the files to the hdd and now ever time i reboot it gives me a option to either chose xp setup or windows but the problem is it only give me 4secs to chose between the 2. if any one can help as i am a lazy git who likes to turn my pc and leave it not fiddle with it and make it chose different os's. if any one knows who to sole this problem

please let me know

cheers mike

[neochivers]

ok for a start calm down... Do you have the XP cd in the drive while your doing this? and which version is it XP Pro or Home?

[mad_mike]

yeah i had the cd in while tring to do the install and it is xp home sp2 =. i think i will just give up with fiddling with pc's i always mess it up

[neochivers]

is the cd a update cd or just the whole OS

[mad_mike]

it is a complet os but i thought you could upgrade from it as it said it was doing a upgrade ??

[neochivers]

hate to doubble post but is it this computer http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?t=136135 or are u just not having luck installing OS?

[neochivers]

sorry wasnt a dubble after all .. i think you can, but a fresh install would be better, try to format the disk if you know how but if you dont tell me and i will show you how

[mad_mike]

yes it is the computer but i hasve since manged to get 98 on it as me being the idote i am i had knocked a switch on the mobo and it had overclocked the cpu therefor not letting me put 98 on it. then i got 98 on it but as i am not the biggest fan of 98 i decied to try and upgrade to xp because i think it is much better as i never seam t have to put drivers in ect, then as i tried putting xp on this happened

[neochivers]

isee can u format hard disks? and that PM i just sent you is it or is it not that?

[mad_mike]

yes and yes i can format hdd as i have donte it a few time just it is getting a pain inthe but doind but i soppose i will ahve to do it again

[neochivers]

ok just remember to backup documents ect. u want on to a cd/floppy/DVD before you format ... if you have any more problems regarding this just give me a shout. And we all do what the PM says

[neochivers]

look here http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?t=136642
now help with drivers please

[glc]

System specs required, please.

[mad_mike]

hi i have just copyed thes stright for everest and pasted them in here

CPU Type AMD Athlon, 700 MHz (7 x 100)
CPU Alias Pluto, K75
CPU Stepping A1
Instruction Set x86, MMX, 3DNow!
L1 Code Cache 64 KB
L1 Data Cache 64 KB
L2 Cache 512 KB (Built-In, Half-Speed)


Motherboard Name Gigabyte GA-7IXE

640 mb of ram 2x 256 and 1x 128

1x 20gb hdd split in to 2x 10gb ( i know silly but it seamd a good idea at the time lol)

and 1x 30gb

[glc]

XP may just not install on that motherboard, that's not uncommon with older hardware. You also may have flaky ram - XP is a lot fussier than 98 when it comes to ram. Test your ram with memtest86+ (www.memtest.org) and possibly try a motherboard bios update. Make sure you have the bios virus protection turned off.