Q: I have an older system running XP Pro quite well. I had two hard drives in 1930 (5400) and 1915 (7200) GB respectively. I decided to replace it with 2x 120 GB WD HDD and reload windows. Heres whats happening now:
BIOS recognizes the 2 HDDs and 2 optical drives
XP Pro starts loading from CD-UP rom
Starts starts loading the basic Setup Files
but when the message at the bottom of the screen gets to: Setup is Starting Windows
my LCD goes blank and goes into standby (yellow green button)
I have tried to load with just the basics: 1 HDD / 1 card cd-rom/video / 1 stick of 512 MB of RAM with the same result. I even tried two different XP Pro disks.
Please Help . This system worked fine, but will not load XP PRO with the new HDDs.
edit: I tried the 6 XP Pro start-up disk approach.
edit (2): I got this disk is not formatted, simply connected and bath. Is this wrong with XP PRO?
Re:I experienced something similar. In Bios, try to set the 'interrupt mode' from PIC to APIC or vise-versa see if that does it for you….
GL
Re:Originally posted by: guy
It *should*, but the WinXP disk may not have proper drivers for your video card, especially if it's a dual-output card. You didn't mention what kind of card it is, so this is just speculation.
it was (is) an Asus ti4200. btw I tried it both in analog and dvi form but XP Pro would not complete the install.
Re:It *should*, but the WinXP disk may not have proper drivers for your video card, especially if it's a dual-output card. You didn't mention what kind of card it is, so this is just speculation.
Re:lol, just tried it….. same problem. :confused:
i am now changing the video card and trying to load with an analog instead of dvi connection
edit: seems to be working now. :beer:
does dvi not work in a new XP Pro install?????????
Re:what i would do next, connect 1 of your old drives, and run setup….see what happens.
Re:then check out what board ya have and see what BIOS updates are available….possible that the board has problems with large HD's.
guess i should read better….if board sees drives ok…..then forget what i said about the BIOS….:o
Re:I have tried to load with just the basics: 1 hdd/ 1 cd-rom/video card/1 stick of 512 mb ram with the same results.
I have even tried 2 different XP Pro disks.
Re:Try installing with only 1 drive connected, and see what happens…..you can format and partition drive with xp.
if that doesn't resolve anything…..since you mention "older" system, it's possible you need a BIOS update from your board manufacturer.
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