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Win XP setup hang
Name: JD0821 Date: January 28, 2008 at 04:07:36 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: P3 / 512MB Product: Gateway E3400
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Old machine. Had XP on old drive, bought larger drive 160GB, smartdrive enabled - sees full size. Jumper set to master. Fully recognized in BIOS. Created partition, formatted, hangs every time on setup is loading windows. Works great on 2 other machines I have. Old machine, will only take Win 95/98. Set BIOS to default settings, even flashed BIOS. During XP setup, set HAL to Standard PC, Never gets to partition/format with XP setup CD...made XP boot CD/FDD, nothing. Installed Win98 and attempted XP upgrade, hangs.
Name: SysLock Date: January 28, 2008 at 04:56:39 Pacific
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Put the cd in the drive after Win '98 boots to the desktop and run the compatability tester. XP does have minimum system requirements.
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Response Number 2
Name: JD0821 Date: January 28, 2008 at 05:06:54 Pacific
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Done that. XP was on the system before I purchased the new drive. It meets XPs HW requirements. Thanks for the fast response! Much appreciated.
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Response Number 3
Name: The_Oracle Date: January 28, 2008 at 07:55:39 Pacific
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windows xp pre-sp1 cannot handle hard drives > 138 GB
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Response Number 4
Name: JD0821 Date: January 28, 2008 at 08:05:48 Pacific
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BIOS is LBA-compatible-160GB fully recognized in BIOS, tried with many different HDs....even a 20GB. So size is not the issue. Even when 137GB was recognized, still wouldnt load. The old drive was 160GB as well. XP was running perfect on it. I ended up formatting it and giving it to someone since I wasnt using this PC really...now I sort of use it...bought a new HDD and this is when it started. Thanks for the help!
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Response Number 5
Name: aegis Date: January 28, 2008 at 08:58:27 Pacific
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Try stripping the machine down to the bare essentials: CD drive Hard drive Graphics card PS2 Keyboard and mouse No external devices connected
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Response Number 6
Name: JD0821 Date: January 28, 2008 at 11:48:33 Pacific
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Nothing external hooked up to machine. Reseated cards and memory, swapped mem out too. I know its some stupid setting somewhere, but Im at a loss. Thanks for your help.
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Response Number 7
Name: SysLock Date: January 28, 2008 at 17:33:52 Pacific
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If the bios has a virus protection setting, disable it.
The drive wouldn't be an SATA drive by chance that needs the controller drivers loaded first?
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Response Number 8
Name: JD0821 Date: January 29, 2008 at 05:09:34 Pacific
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Not SATA drive- no virus protection in BIOS. I just dont get it....everything works but XP/2000. Pretty soon Im going to take a bat to it :) Thatll fix it.
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