OK I've been up over 24 hours trying to figure this out so forgive me if I sound frustrated.
Put together my new system yesterday and booted it up, and to my surprised it worked on the first try. I put in the Windows XP CD and it boots fine and starts loading all the drivers, then I get to the screen to press ENTER to continue and then press F8 to accept the license agreement.
Right after that though it says no previous installation of Windows was found on any hard drives and to insert a copy of Windows Millenium/2000/95/etc. etc. to upgrade. But the thing is my CD IS a retail copy and NOT an upgrade.
I've used it countless times over 4-5 years to install XP after a format on my old comp. Just to be safe though I installed it on 2 other computers yesterday and it worked fine. But on my new build it thinks I have an upgrade CD. No error no hangs no nothing, just that it thinks I have an upgrade CD.
So my system is all SATA (1 Raptor X 150GB, 1 WD 500GB, and 1 Asus SATA DVD-RW). I though it might be the DVD-RW messing with things so I took it out and put in an IDE drive as Master AND Slave but I get the same problem. I thought maybe one of my hard drives was DOA so I tried running with just 1 hard drive. I've tried legacy/native with IDE/RAID/AHCI. I've reset CMOS I've tried with the motherboard SATA floppy I've tried a slipstreamed copy of XP with the latest SATA drivers. Nothing works.
The only thing I can think of is that my CD is from way back when XP just came out so it doesn't have any SPs on it. I'm gonna try slipstreaming SP2 onto the CD and see if that works.
Other than that I really have no idea what to do and would appreciate any help, especially if anyone has had the same problem before.
Below is the basics of my setup:
Intel C2D E6600
2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800
1 Raptor X 150GB
1 WD 500GB
Asus SATA DVD-RW
Thanks... please help me so I can sleep
Put together my new system yesterday and booted it up, and to my surprised it worked on the first try. I put in the Windows XP CD and it boots fine and starts loading all the drivers, then I get to the screen to press ENTER to continue and then press F8 to accept the license agreement.
Right after that though it says no previous installation of Windows was found on any hard drives and to insert a copy of Windows Millenium/2000/95/etc. etc. to upgrade. But the thing is my CD IS a retail copy and NOT an upgrade.
I've used it countless times over 4-5 years to install XP after a format on my old comp. Just to be safe though I installed it on 2 other computers yesterday and it worked fine. But on my new build it thinks I have an upgrade CD. No error no hangs no nothing, just that it thinks I have an upgrade CD.
So my system is all SATA (1 Raptor X 150GB, 1 WD 500GB, and 1 Asus SATA DVD-RW). I though it might be the DVD-RW messing with things so I took it out and put in an IDE drive as Master AND Slave but I get the same problem. I thought maybe one of my hard drives was DOA so I tried running with just 1 hard drive. I've tried legacy/native with IDE/RAID/AHCI. I've reset CMOS I've tried with the motherboard SATA floppy I've tried a slipstreamed copy of XP with the latest SATA drivers. Nothing works.
The only thing I can think of is that my CD is from way back when XP just came out so it doesn't have any SPs on it. I'm gonna try slipstreaming SP2 onto the CD and see if that works.
Other than that I really have no idea what to do and would appreciate any help, especially if anyone has had the same problem before.
Below is the basics of my setup:
Intel C2D E6600
2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800
1 Raptor X 150GB
1 WD 500GB
Asus SATA DVD-RW
Thanks... please help me so I can sleep
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