Q: Hi, I have a problem I have a Biostar M7NCD Pro motherboard. Okay, I am unable to get past the Windows XP Home Edition loading screen. I switched to a generic video card TNT2 video card, used to have radeon 9800pro, and for some strange reason I am unable to access the welcome screen ya know. Here, heres my system specs:
M / B Model Name / PCB version M7NCD
BIOS Pro Version ncdp0730bs
CPU u0026amp Manufacture, Model Athlon XP 2500 + Mobile =
RAM
VGA DDR PCI Card Sound Card Onboard LAN Onboard
Sound
LAN Card Supply 350W ATX Mustang
Power form Western Digital 80GB IDE Interface
H.DD
CD/DVD-ROM IDE Interface
Operation
System WIN 98SE Other = Windows XP Home Edition Help
Plz really appreciate it!
Re:I don't believe it's the processor since the mother board detects its a amd athlon 2500+mobile. Windows 98 doesn't auto boot on Boot with CDrom and the periods go . . . . So I'm going to have to check that out. I purchased a extended warranty on the Processor so i'm going to hmm probably lets see,,, I might return the processor with the motherboard to newegg to get a full replacement. I didn't void the warranty so that's good. Except I know I am going to return the motherboard to get a replacement since I'm still under warranty with them.
Re:will windows 98 install fully?, is it just XP that fails to install?
I'd be inclined to suggest you RMA the Athlon 2500 back to newegg
Re:I'm sorry I wasn't very clear actually I just just got all the hardware from newegg like 3 days ago. I havn't installed anything actually. Everything right out of the box tell ya the truth. All I do have connected is 1 stick of ram, 1 vid card, right now a tnt2, 1 cpu, 1 hard drive, 1 cd rom, 1 mouse, 1 keyboard and 1 floppy drive <<also tried without floppy drive.
Re:It would appear from your description that you have a piece of faulty hardware somewhere in your system.
You don't say what happened first to cause the problem but the situation you're now in is that you can't get windows to re-install.
OK, if you can – go back to basics. Disconnect everything from your PC that's not essential – so we're talking;
motherboard & cpu
1 stick of ram
1 video card (shouldn't matter if it's the TNT or the ATI)
1 hard disc
1 cd-rom
1 floppy (optional)
1 keyboard (pref non-usb)
reset cmos, format the hard drive and then try to install your OS
Re:Did you uninstall the Radeon 9800pro driver before you swapped video cards?
If not, try booting into safe mode and then remove the old video card driver before trying to boot in normal mode.
Re:By the Way here's a Detailed version of my Problem:
I have tried resetting bios, disabling cache for video and cpu, tried installing windows xp and windows se on a diff computer, reinstall system files in recovery console, tried installing with 2 diff hard drives, 3 different cd rom drives, I reset the bios and disabled any kind of extras such as integrated lan, audio and USB support and I'm still unable to install or get to the welcome screen in windows xp. I'm able to get to the windows xp logo sometimes, most of the time it freezes as the bars go by, or the keyboard lights flash and it brings me to a black screen and the cursor is usable but is stuck on with an hourglass attached to it. I have tried booting the system in safe mode, just windows system files, last known good config., and started windows normally. I updated the bios to support the newest cpus, but for some odd reason I cannot install windows xp, with the light blue screen and installing windows, gives that description in white text about how cool windows xp is compared to the later versions of windows and just freezes at 39 min. the green boxes on the lower right hand corner is frozen so I have to restart and than I just make it to the black screen with a hourglass attached to the cursor. I was able to fully fully install windows xp home edition on my 1995 gateway with a 500mhz celeron I get to the desktop and i shut down, then I take the IDE cable from the gateway motherboard and connect it to the biostar motherboard and I boot it up. Asks me how I want to boot the computer up, I select safe mode and before I selected last known configuration, freezes at logo screen restart and select safe mode again, passes the logo screen but freezes on the black screen with the hourglass attached to it. I went into the windows xp setup with the windows xp home edition retail cd in the cd rom drive boot up by cd I press enter, bress f8 on agreeing to the statment, I select the operating system on the hard drive, it's listed, I select repair my system files it deletes them all than starts and finishes installing the system files. Okay cool now the computer restarts I just leave it alone, gets and passes the logo screen and passes the black screen. Now goes to the blue screen where shows how cool windows xp is with the Installing Windows Bullet with 39 min. Left of installation and freezes after two green boxes on lower right hand corner were highlighted. Well, as you guys can see I well I believe I have tried almost everything. Also for some reason I cannot boot my windows 98se for some odd reason so that's why I just left it out. Well I hope I made myself kind of clear. Thanx if you can help me.
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