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Computer wont boot to XP CD

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Excelite

Junior Member
Hello,

Trying to format/install XP on my spare machine which currently has Fedora Core on it. I made sure BIOS had CDROM first. Stuck in the CD, rebooted. Once I press the "hit any key to boot from cd"..

It shows the black sceen with " Setup is inspecting your hardware configuration".

Instead of going to the blue screen where it loads the stuff, the screen just goes black - and nothing ever shows.

Ive tried this with both CDROM drives.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
 
Try downloading a hdd utility first to "zero" the hdd. Or you can at least remove the existing partition and format it. Then try the XP cd again. I would highly recommend you start with basic peripheral on the machine like, video card, 1 hdd, a stick of ram and a cd rom.
 
Also,

1) post your full specs, all parts and cards

2) did you give it a few minutes before giving up? I've seen occasions where the first 2-3 minutes of Windows Setup has been blank-screen due to ??? and then it comes to the surface and works from there.
 
I had this problem, turns out my computer was sensing that the card reader in the Lexmark 3100 printer was a hard drive and it would freeze at the exact same spot.
 
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