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Windows xp setup crash
Name: neo_uk Date: January 26, 2004 at 02:39:21 Pacific OS: windows 98se CPU/Ram: athlon 2ghz / 384mb
Comment:
i have just put together a fresh system comprising of Asrock kt7 mb, athlon 2ghz, 384mb, 40gb HD (fat32) however my installation of XP Pro seems to crash at various intervals completely. The last crash was seen at the "Installing devices" stage and then i got a Power Management message saying "Signal failure" - I checked BIOS power settings and its fine. Checked my ATI PCI card and it seems fine.
At the moment reverted back to Win 98SE which installed OK. But I want my XP Pro BACK!! Any advice pls? Thanks...
Name: Jimi_l Date: January 26, 2004 at 02:49:20 Pacific
Reply:
The ATI PCI card may be the culprit. Try somthing newer or use the onboard video (if applicable) for the install and add it afterwards.
Usually it is incompatible hardware that causes issues like you describe. While they may work fine AFTER the install, they may hold it back to begin with.
Summary: i tried the setup using the win98 bootdisk, and loading the winnt.exe file. i got a few error messages saying it can't find certain files, but i chose to skip those files anyway and see if it would wo...
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