Re: Upgrading from Win2KPro to WinXP Pro --- upgrade process locks up

Andrew

Another bright post from you. Go away

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"Andrew E." <eckrichco@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:B9AA9C3D-5D6B-431C-A23F-A6467FD7741E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
First,with any software upgrade or installation,if the pc gets into a "idle"
or "open loop" & nothing is installing within 5-10 minutes,end the task at
hand.
"Running for days" w/o success in the same place will damage both hardware &
software...As for the problem(s),with the upgrade,its critical that youre
cdrom
with xp cd installed,be set as 1st boot priority in the BIOS,set the hd as
second.
Also,other option,boot to xp cd,upgrade at xp cd boot menu.I believe it's
possible
however havent "upgraded" to xp in long time....

"wmohat" wrote:

I'm trying to upgrade 7 systems from Win2K pro to WinXP pro.... and the
installation process locks up every time. The lockup happens about 1/3 of
the way through the upgrade process .... right after the second restart
(after "Preparing Installation" completes). The system restarts to a black
screen with the Microsoft logo and flag on it.... with 5 small squares
blinking in a row to indicate activity.... but nothing else happens. After
maybe 4 seconds, disk activity stops, forever....the systems will sit for
days without any further progress. No error messages are displayed.... I
have just the black screen with the Windows logo on it, with the little
squares at the bottom blinking to indicate progress, but there is no progress.

All of the systems have Asus P4S533 motherboards, with NVIDIA video
cards, but I don't think this is hardware related; I can use the same CD-ROM
to do a "dual-boot" installation on the same PC systems, but that isn't what
we want. We need to have all of the software that is installed under Win2K
run under XP, so "upgrade" is what we absolutely must do. (It would take
WEEKS to reload all of those applications on all of those systems.)

I don't think this is application software related either. I have
tried unloading ALL device drivers and killing all startup programs.... even
booting in "Safe Mode" before attempting the WinXP upgrade. Power management
in the BIOS is shut off, (etc, etc).... the systems are STRIPPED to the bare
minimum, but nothing works.... the upgrade process freezes in the same spot
every time. But, the same system and install CD WILL load XP "dual-boot"
into a separate disk partition on the same PCs. It's just "upgrading" Win2K
that doesn't work. Ever.

What's going on here? Is there any "diagnostic mode" for the XP
Upgrade that will give me some clue as to why the system is freezing during
the upgrade process?
.

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