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d3lt4

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I have an old emachine cp that stopped loading windows. So i fgured the hard drive was shot and got a new one. I booted from my windows disk, and i formatted the hard drive, and installed windows. then it says windows needs to reboot to finish set up. will reboot in x seconds or press enter to reboot now. So i press enter and it just stays on but the screen goes black. won't do anything more until i turn it off manually. Then I have to restart. What should I do? do you think the processor is shot? here are the specs.

biostart nf2 mobo
amd xp 2600 oem
512mb ram oem
120gb seagate hd
dvd drive oem
 
Make sure your HDD is in the BOOT list in ur BIOS. When it says it needs to restart, its just letting you know it has enough files on the HDD to finish the install from there, not from the CD. DONT take the CD out, tho!!!! 🙂 Just make sure your HDD is recognized by BIOS and is in the boot order.
 
Thanks, it's working now. I kept trying to load the cd, so I changed the boot sequence to the HDD first. works, thankyou
 
No need to change the boot sequence. My BIOS asks me to press a key to boot from the CD. I simply don't press a key and let it boot from the hdd.

If your BIOS autoboots the CD, then you could have taken the CD out so it wouldn't boot from it. Windows setup would have just asked you to reinsert it when it needed it.

 
Originally posted by: scottws
No need to change the boot sequence. My BIOS asks me to press a key to boot from the CD. I simply don't press a key and let it boot from the hdd.

If your BIOS autoboots the CD, then you could have taken the CD out so it wouldn't boot from it. Windows setup would have just asked you to reinsert it when it needed it.
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LOL, ya I forgot to mention that. But, hey, glad I could help. Thats why we're here! 😀
Ya, just make sure you put ur CD back in the boot order before the HDD if you ever need to reinstall again.
 
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