HELP PLEASE XP INSTALLATION.

[sanitydc]

a little history:
I was installing some new ATI drivers for my videocard and my tv tuner and I got a wicked BSOD during some system file installation... . When I rebooted all of my "sound and hardware" devices were corrupted... yay. went through and re installed all of them, they all were working according to the screen, but for some reason it couldn't pick up a sound device. So I decided to take what I thought would be the easy way out and reinstall windows. wrong.


problem:
while attempting to "repair windows" it locks up while at the 34 minute mark of installing devices, it does this every time, I've tried now 3-4 times. I have no idea. So I figure what ever I'll install windows on my other partition and just recover what I need from that partition and redo the whole thing..
problem number 2:
I'm installing on a freshly formatted partition, and the windows installer sends me its lovely logo warning, I push the "yes" button and on it continues and for somereason my usb keyboard is turning on and off as well as my mouse and it turns off right before another windows logo warning thing comes up "GBB36X Controller" My mouse and keyboard have been disabled by windows so I can't click the button.. And it can't continue until I do.. ha.

I tried clicking no on the first one and it gets through the whole install just fine when I do that, but unfortunately it wont boot because if I don't install that "GBB36X Controller" It can't read my raid I assume.


Sorry if I'm long winded but I don't know how to make it any more concise then that. Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[sanitydc]

In bios I have it running in optimized defaults with the exception of how it reads my HDD so no it's not OC'ed during these installations.


I thought that might be the problem.

 

[Whiznot]

Before doing a new install of windows you should revert to a minimum hardware configuration. Remove TV tuner, soundcard, PCI modem or NIC, USB keyboard and mouse. The operating system will not install correctly if it starts searching for some drivers during installation.

 

[foghorn67]

Originally posted by: Whiznot
Before doing a new install of windows you should revert to a minimum hardware configuration. Remove TV tuner, soundcard, PCI modem or NIC, USB keyboard and mouse. The operating system will not install correctly if it starts searching for some drivers during installation.

I second this...

After running into several issues on the 34 minute mark, all of them were solved by removing everything but the necassary. After it's all done, add the rest one by one after the OS is installed.