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Now starting windowsxp setup
Name: Sc0rp Date: February 19, 2002 at 10:08:10 Pacific
Comment:
okey try'd to install winxp.. yough everything whas fine untill it rebooted the first time and came into a black windows that said: now starting windowsxp setup.. okey you saw a white line loading.. it finished loading.. and i get a black screen.. that's it.. got almost the same prob with win2000... please help!!!
Name: Leprechaun1 Date: February 19, 2002 at 11:04:49 Pacific
Reply:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q310064#4 Try that link
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Response Number 2
Name: Ted Date: February 19, 2002 at 11:35:37 Pacific
Reply:
Had a similar problem. Maybe yours is the same. Are you doing clean install? If you are installing clean to a new hard drive, look to see what your drive requirements are for "alone", master and slave, and set the jumper accordingly. For my WesterDigital drive a jumper was NOT needed for stand alone. I thought "master" would work, but bios did not detect it set as master. Watch on POST to see if the drive is detected! Good luck
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