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eMachine T2895 Windows Install problem

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paulsiu

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I am helping out my finacee's father with a eMachine T2895. Basically, it won't boot up properly any more. I ran Memtest on it and sure enough, the RAM was bad and I replaced it. The new RAM passes memtest and I thought everything was fixed.

I then ran boot up windows XP and it hangs on configurating hardware. The same CD works on my laptop. I have booted Puppy Linux on it and it works fine, so I am confused.

Is this a problem with the motherboard? How can I tell? My financee's father thinks one of the kids got a virus on the machine, but I don't think there is a virus that would affect booting from a windows XP cd-rom.

My thought that it may be in the BIOS, but I can't find any bios image to reflash on the emachine website. Any clues?

Paul
 
Solved it after playing around with the bios. On the eMachine T2895, there is an option to load the fail-safe factory setting. If you load this, Windows will never work. You need to load the optimized factory setting. If you do this, the windows setup will start working again.
 
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