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New build, prob. installing Windows XP SP2 OEM

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jvarszegi

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It gets up to the point where it restarts the first time, then it begins everything again, including copying all the files to the hard drive. Any idea what would cause this?
 
Here's the thing that bugs me: I shouldn't have to create boot disks to install XP. My CD is bootable, it just keeps losing track of the fact that it's done the first step! I've got a floppy drive, but why is this happening?
 
Hi,

After it finishes copying the files to the HD, the computer needs to reboot from the HD, not the CD. I think what is happening is that it is still booting off the CD. You need to change your BIOS to get it to reboot off the HD instead.

HTH!
 
Originally posted by: wisdomtooth
Hi,

After it finishes copying the files to the HD, the computer needs to reboot from the HD, not the CD. I think what is happening is that it is still booting off the CD. You need to change your BIOS to get it to reboot off the HD instead.

HTH!
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Yep, I did that last night, but to no avail. I googled on all sorts of word combinations, but no help there. I've got both on-board RAID controllers disabled, and I'm just trying to install to a regular ol' SATA drive. Could the SATA have something to do with it? Setup recognizes it fine, formats it and everything.
 
Hmm... How about taking out the CD while it's rebooting so it won't boot from there again? Maybe that'll force it to boot from your HD..
 
more than likely you'll have to hit F6 at the setup screen then insert a floppy with the raid drivers as windows seem unable to see your sata hdd so bypasses it & then boots from the xp cd restarting the install.
 
You shouldn't need to install any raid drivers...if this were the problem Windows wouldn't see the drive to begin with. I would check your bios and make sure the SATA is allowed boot priority over IDE and that it is set as the primary boot device.
 
actually you can leave the boot order CD/HDD 0(SATA/SCSI - not IDE) , but take out the CD before it reboots, and do not touch any keys.
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This may sound strange, but put in Win 98 boot disk and fdisk clean again, partition/reformat one active primary partition less than 120GB FAT 32.
You can change to NTFS later.

Make sure HDD jumper is set to master, boot order to SCSI/SATA, not IDE.
OEM's also seem to cause more trouble for some reason.

http://www.geekstogo.com/forum...p;st=0&#entry28125

Sometimes bad serial can do it also - you say you have an integrated SP2 disc.
Bad HDD also can do this obviously.
Take out all but one stick of ram, all cards but video to eliminate bad pool call prossibilities
 
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