Re: Boot Hang!

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From: Colon Terminus (Colon_Terminus_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/13/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 02:56:42 GMT

I've seen this happen many times with motherboards that aren't fully ACPI
compatible. Very early in the install process you'll see a message at the
bottom of a blue screen asking you to "Hit F6 to load additional drivers" or
something very like that. When you see the message, hit the F7 key <--- not
a typo. This will force Windows to install using a non-ACPI HAL. Windows
install will NOT acknowledge the F7 key interactively in any way, but will
install a HAL more compatible with your motherboard. Watch for it and be
quick about it, you won't have much time to hit the F7 key.

"PaulCov" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9AEA0605-D871-4F71-A5FA-D0C06512ABB3@microsoft.com...
> Ive recently upgraded my Win Me machine to Win 2000, it then restarted, i
went through the time zone and keyboard selection process, it rebooted
again but this time it hangs at the windows logo, (with the blue status bar
at the bottom) so i tried a full clean install, but the same happened again,
i tried a fresh install on 'two other' hard drives but it continues to hang
at the same point! It leads me two think it is a hardware problem as ive
tried 3 hard drives with fresh installs, has anyone else had this problem?
please help!
>
> ps. its a PIII 800mhz, 256ram, so performance should not be a problem as i
have a 650 machine with 128 running win2K!

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