Re: Black Screen during Windows XP Setup
- From: "Jerry" <NoSpamChiefZeke@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 12:54:35 -0700
Had similar problem with same motherboard but my fix was to switch the input
to my LCD monitor from digital to analog until XP was completely installed
and digital drivers for the video card and monitor were installed. (You
didn't say what you had for video or monitor.)
"tommccombs" <tommccombs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>1 1/2 years ago I built a computer with an IC7-MAX3 (ABIT) Mother board and
> installed Windows XP Pro with SP 1 with no problem.
>
> I had a hard drive failure (Western Digital WD800 - 80 Gig SATA 7200) so I
> installed a new one (Western Digital WD740GD - 74 Gig SATA 10,000) and
> began
> installing Windows XP Pro (same CD I used before). It won't boot up.
>
> Here is what I did:
>
> 1. Put in Windows XP CD and brought up Windows Setup
> 2. Reformated the new drive
> 3. Windows began setup
> 4. Setup rebooted from Blue Text screen, started Windows Screen and
> continued through product key, copying files, Registering, etc.
> 5. When finished setup rebooted.
> 6. The reboot started. Asked to boot from CD (which I didn't) and
> accessed
> the hard drive for about 2 sec. then a black screen (Frozen).
>
> I have tried:
>
> - Making sure the Bios sees the hard drive as boot disk
> - Reformating and redoing Windows XP Setup
> - Pressing F6 and putting in Manufactures SATA Driver Disk (During 3rd
> reformating & setup).
> - When I press F8, I go into safe mode then when I select any item, the
> white line scrolls across the bottom of the screen and the screen freezes.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> --
> Tom
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