Re: Xp x64 not Installing - Stuck on Starting windows
- From: Skythra <Skythra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 07:05:02 -0700
"mikeyhsd" wrote:
you might try disabling in the BIOS anything that is absoluely not needed for the install.
like USB, PARALLEL, SERIAL , no overclocking, extra hard drives.
etc.....
mikeyhsd@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Hate to say it, but ive already been through all this. Alot... I restored
the dafaults. Nothing. I physically removed hdd's and tried each (of the
four) individually. Nothing. I dont have any overclocked settings, and
overclocking it doesnt change it. I tried a different cd rom. In fact i tried
a DvD rom too. (in the process i broke a cd rom by mistake by dropping it
huzzah) Ive tried installing windows XP non-x64, the exact same problem.
hold on. The exact same problem? Whats happening here? I installed XP
non-x64 a while ago and thats what ive been using forever... Whats changed
since then? There is no error or anything, it just sits there. So I cant
really use it for help.
"Maybe its a problem my pc now has with the windows installer" <~~ at this
point running out of ideas.
I install Mandrake version 9.2. It boots up.. starts the install and says
"Cannot find a CD-Rom. "huh? What do you think you are running from?" I
scrounge around more, and fine fedora. Same problem. Look and find Yopper
Linux. Something slightly different, went to the kernel and saw there was an
I/O problem.
So what we have is... a failure to detect the CDrom? Something to do with CD
rom drivers? Changing the CDroms isnt helping... it probably has something to
do with the bios then?
So, Ive been working on trying to update the bios, but i dont have a floppy
drive.... So here comes the story of today. I downloaded about 3000000 apps
(slight exaggeration). Ive been burning off CD's with probably about a total
used space of 1.44mb. Bootable, and unuseable. The latest one, ive been
using varying versions of DOS to try and flash my bios. Some state when you
go to flash the bios "Fatal exception. Permission *something something*" For
that i think, probably the DOS is just in the ram, and I dont have full read
write permissions.
The other sort of DOS ive been using, is one that doesnt boot.. I get a
similar thing to windows/linux. It just doesnt load. It just sits there....
Im starting to suspect something is seriously wrong with my:
a) Bios, or
b) Chipset
and either way, none of these have mattered because always windows have been
dealing with all the drivers for both of these, not my bios. Ive been
running this installation (before i wiped it 3 days ago) for 2 years without
problems, but also for that matter, ive had this x64 chipset that ive been
wanting to use. So finally when people are starting to rave about how good it
is etc, I try it and... lose everything it seems.
At the momment i doubt i can come up with a solution short of replacing my
Motherboard. The MAJOR problem with that in being, im a University student.
All my money goes to food rent fuel and bills. It would be months before i
could save up the extra money to buy a new motherboard. Well probably two
months, but in that time, i would have lost many hours of assignment and
study work...
While this clearly isnt anyone's fault but my own, I can hardly blame it on
XP or XP-x64 I am incredibly lost for words at my misfortune. I suppose i
just shouldnt have carted my PC around so much, i probably broke something
while going to LAN's etc.
Ahwell. Life's life.
.
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