I am trying ti install Win XP Pro sp2 on a IBM Netvista computer with an 800meg cpu and 256megs of ram. I have installed a freshly formatted 10gig HDD. I have made it through most of the installation when the monitor goes black, just shuts off. I have tried three different monitors and they all click off during boot. I have integrated video on the system and even installed an AGP graphic card I had laying around. Set the BIOS to AGP and it still shuts off during startup. Any Idea why the monitor shuts down? It seems like a sleep mode as after it shuts down I cannot use the monitors power button and turn it back on. I am forced to shut the system down. ANY help would be appreciated. TIA DJMike

If you haven't already, i would suggest trying a different monitor. How old is the one you are using? i have had some trouble in the past with old monitors and Xp, sometimes they are not able to handle to resolution or refresh rate of XP. Usually the monitor would say "Out of Range" tho. There are 10 types of people in the world, Those who do understand binary, and those who dont.

I have purchased a Netvista 6840-CAU tower less the hard-drive. I have tried installing WinXP on a clean 10gig reformatted HDD. After WinXP setup has downloaded the neccessary files and it starts the installation process the monitor goes black and shuts off. I have onboard video and it is set in the bios correctly. I have three monitors I have tried on each fails. Each monitor runs well on my other 800meg HP Pavilion under WIN XP Pro. I do not believe it is the monitors. This Netvisdta Mb has an AGP slot which I fed an nVidia graphics card and same thing happens. I then reformatted the drive Fat32 and tried installing Win 98SE. Same thing once the plug-n-play starts finding devices the monitor goes black and the system reboots. I forgot to mention the rebooting after each failure. Next I booted into safe mode (Which worked!) set the video resolution to 640 x 480 thinking that would do it and in regular start-up (now in Win 98SE)I get the PCI-VGA detection window and when it starts looking for the driver and at the very next form it again dies goibng black and reboots. Now, last time in safe mode and in the device manager no display adapter was recognized while the AGP nVidia card was being used. In safe mode I cannot run the add/hardware wizard. Can anybody tell me why the system is looking for a PCI-VGA card when I have nothing in the PCI slots except a NIC card. It seems to be a graphics problem but I cannot figure it out. The system is a Netvista 6840-CAU. Ideally I wish to install WIN XP so if anybody has anything for me to try I would love to hear your thoughts. TIA DJMike

I had the same problem when i was installing linux on a computer. Never figured it out.