Help! Can't install Xp or W2k

[BooGiMaN]

Bear with me guys this is a long story...

I have a Micron Millenia p3 733 512M SDRAM. I was running Windows ME and decided I wanted to upgrade to XP. I buy the upgrade and begin the installation. Hangs at a blue screen 'Error 7B Boot device not detected' something to that effect. I try a few times ..no dice same error. So......

Call Microsoft Tech support explain the problem and they tell me to upgrade the BIOS. I flash it...Same error. They suggest I should buy a new motheboard, that the one I have might not support XP. Hmmm I decide..what the heck...its time for an upgrade so i buy a new motherboard/processor combo. Bring home a SOYO P4S ultra dragon with a 1.6 p4 and 128DDRAM install and ...same error. I switch the IBM HD for a western digital no dice same error '7B'. So.....

Microsoft Tech support again says please flash the Bios..I do same error. Arrrgh.....They suggest i disable ultraDMA and virus in the SOYO BIOS...nothing same thing. They suggest i consider buying a new HD....hmmmm...

I decided to try to install W2K in the Micron and lo and behold i get the same exact error . So.....


Whats going on?!?

Anyone have any suggestions same problems?

Basicallly what I am tryign to say is...........HELP!!!!

 

[Basie]

If you have a Board with Raid Channels don't install your OS using them. Try installing the OS on the regular IDE Channel and then after the Raid drivers are installed you can switch to the raid channels.

 

[BooGiMaN]

Basie,
First off thanks for your help.
Sorry to sound clueless but how is that done? Is there a switch at the command line ?

Any info is appreciated

 

[Escalade]

Verify that your hardware is on the XP compatibility list...

You can download updated HCLs here...
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/services/whql/hcl/

 

[hoomza444]

i think he means to switch the drive off of the raide channel and onto the ide channel on the actual board. you might also try the trigger for installing the correct raid drivers during the begnning of the setup. it says to isntall scsi/raid drives press something now......something along the lines of that. hope that helps?

 

[WaltC]

<< I have a Micron Millenia p3 733 512M SDRAM. I was running Windows ME and decided I wanted to upgrade to XP. I buy the upgrade and begin the installation. Hangs at a blue screen 'Error 7B Boot device not detected' something to that effect. I try a few times ..no dice same error. So...... >>




This may be a simple question but it is one that necessarily needs to be asked. When you tried to install XP you DID enter the bios and change the boot order so that your system would boot from the XP install CD, did you not? The error, and the fact that you've gotten it so often under so many different conditions, would suggest that you are trying to install XP the wrong way--that maybe you think it installs just like Win9x, in that you boot to Win95, insert the Win98 install CD in a CD-ROM drive, and then double-click "setup.exe" on the Win98 CD in order to begin the install. "Boot device not detected" may simply mean that you have initiated the setup program for XP install from a Win9x boot by running the executable on the XP CD, but it expects to run from its own booted CD--which it cannot find (because you have not booted with it.) At least that's the only consistent answer which makes sense to me when getting the same error across all of this different hardware and across both XP and 2K install CD's. (I was going to also suggest that it might be a bad XP install CD, but since the chances are nil of you having both a bad XP and bad Win2K install CD--unless they are bootlegged, of course--I don't think your problems are the result of bad media. If your CD's are bootlegged--then there's no telling what...)

Anyway, it could be that both the people at M$ and at Micron were assuming you had booted from the install CD, which is probably why they might not have asked if you had, in fact, done so.

That's all I can think of that covers the bases--that you're trying to install the XP upgrade the same way you would install the Win98 upgrade over Win95--by first booting into the old OS and THEN trying to run the install executable from the install CD, instead of by setting your bios up to boot from your CD drive and booting straight into the XP install CD from your CD-ROM drive.

If this is totally off base, then many pardons, please--it's been a long...day...