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XP not installing
Name: Alan Date: June 26, 2003 at 07:51:16 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home SP1 CPU/Ram: Athalon 1700 / 512 RAM
Comment:
I recently had a problem where my CPU crashed everyday for the past week. Now I'm thinking to myself back up your files. So I go home to do this yesterday and once again the computer has crashed, but all files I had saved to my destop were gone. To make a long story even longer, I decided to format just for something to do, hoping it would help. The format went fine but when I went to boot from the XP disk and install windows again it would start, but would hang up part-way through. I tried doing this twice. Someone suggested that my hard drive is basically gone, but it is still running, i can hear it. If anyone has a suggestion for this one, please let me know.
Name: Kevin Date: June 26, 2003 at 08:49:46 Pacific
Reply:
It could be the hard drive. Try running scandisk on it to see if it found any bad sectors on your drive. Do you hear any strange noises from the hard drive?
Kevin.
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Response Number 2
Name: Alan Date: June 26, 2003 at 08:56:41 Pacific
Reply:
No strange noises that I can hear, sounds fairly normal. I will see if I can run scandisk.
Thanks,
Alan
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Response Number 3
Name: sinndisco Date: June 26, 2003 at 14:19:53 Pacific
Reply:
If you have more than one stick of RAM, one may be faulty, start removing some of them until your install is successful.
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Response Number 4
Name: Alan Date: June 26, 2003 at 14:49:14 Pacific
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Well, i only have one stick of RAM, but i realized that on startup it says Primary Master: Not Detected. Now I'm assuming that's going to be a part of the problem, don't any of you think so? If so, how can I fix this? or can i?
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Name: Alan
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