Re: XP install probs

Motherboard is an MSI-6737 Combo using 256MB DDR PC2100. GF3 Ti 200 64mb
GFX, Celeron 1.7Ghz.

Its about 1.5-2 yrs old.


"quiglepops" <dave_quigley@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Long story this one. Machine has landed in my lap, used to run with XP,
now
> doesn't start. So I started it with a boot disk. Deleted the only
partition,
> recreated the partition, formatted it and set about installing XP Pro (The
> version which includes SP1)
>
> Install went fine up to a point, all files copied over etc... I even got
to
> the part where it restarted and ran the part where you set your locale,
> keyboard layout etc.... then it restarted again, this time it stopped on
the
> black screen with the windows XP logo and the moving blue bar and wouldn't
> move from it. I restarted it in safe mode, which was successful, in safe
> mode I set it to run in diagnostic startup mode (essential services only),
> then set the 2 applications that were to run on startup not to run (some
dll
> thing and also something else to do with first logon) so I restarted and
the
> same thing happened, failed to get past the same screen. So I reset all
the
> startup services and applications to be what they originally were before I
> tampered with them.
>
> I then stuck in my Ultimate boot cd and started using some of the tools on
> it, notably a disk surface checker (initially I thought the problem in
this
> machine was its old hard disk which is just rubbish and was making a lot
of
> noise so I put a brand new drive in it which made no difference). I then
ran
> a few memory checkers including memtest86 for several hours all of which
had
> no problems.
>
> I am stuck here. Anyone got any idea's ?
>
> By the way, all versions of windows fail to install, I have tried, 95, 98
> and 2000 pro also. All fail whenever they try to start windows first. It
> sounds like some device error but no new devices went into the machine
prior
> to the problems.
>
>
>
>


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