Problem Installing Win XP Home Edition

[AlexRabbot]

Hi,

I am trying to install Win XP Home edition. I have Athlon 600mhz, 192MB of memory, 12GIG drive. The computer originally had Win 98 SE and after getting an error "The Program performed an illegal operwation", I can't even boot it in safe mode using the boot disk. I decided to do a clean install of XP.

I changed the BIOS to boot from CD-ROM. Everything looks fine, except after the first reboot I see the prompt: " SetUp will complete in approximately in 39 minites" and when i see the time left 35 minutes, the screen goes blank and nothing happening.

Any idea where the problem might be?

Thanks in advance,
Alex

[Panama Red]

Do you have any peripheral devices attached, like printers, scanners or any other usb devices? If so disconnect them. Another possibility is ram compatibility. For some reason, XP can be picky about memory. I'd run hard drive diagnostic software from the hard drive maker and run Memtest86+ to test the memory. Both can be run from bootable floppies. Eliminate those two from the problem.

[g-dogg]

Originally Posted by AlexRabbot Hi, I am trying to install Win XP Home edition. I have Athlon 600mhz, 192MB of memory, 12GIG drive. The computer originally had Win 98 SE and after getting an error "The Program performed an illegal operwation", I can't even boot it in safe mode using the boot disk. I decided to do a clean install of XP. I changed the BIOS to boot from CD-ROM. Everything looks fine, except after the first reboot I see the prompt: " SetUp will complete in approximately in 39 minites" and when i see the time left 35 minutes, the screen goes blank and nothing happening. Any idea where the problem might be? Thanks in advance, Alex

what kind of video card do u have?, i once had a problem with that at the same point xp installation the screen goes blank, what i found out is that i had to tape the last 2 pins of the agp card, but the rig was a pentium III build.

[AlexRabbot]

First of all, I don't have any devices connected to the computer. Second, I don't have any diagnostic utilities for this drive. Third, I've already partinioned the drive to NTFS and the only thing that I have is a boot disk with diagnostics for Windows 98 SE. What should I do at this point, run FDISK and partion it to FAT32, but the drive is about 12 or 13 gig? Any ideas what shell I do next?
Thanks in advance,
Alex

[Panama Red]

I had one do this just a few months ago and I'm trying to remember what I did to correct it. Gotta look back on some notes.

[kosova]

well i checked the minimum requirements for XP and u barely made it, the only thing I can think of is if the option "windows virus protection" or something like that is or it should be dissabled b/c sometimes when u change from one OS to another that might give you trouble..but like when i install XP the monitor shuts of for like 1 secs, on and off at times (its like the comp checks for resolution)

Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution video adapter and monitor

here is the whole list
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...g/sysreqs.mspx

[rjfvillarosa]

You are running on the minimum of requirements for XP, try going into the BIOS and disabling the antivirus scanner, some BIOS antivirus scanners do not like OS installs they see the installation of files to the root of the hard drive as virus activity.