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Trying to install WinXP on my GFs computer when this happens:

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puffpio

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After I boot from the CD it says "Setup is analyzing your systems hardware" or something like that. I left it like that for several hours but no progress!! She has an Athlon 750 (I think non tbird, the old school athlon). Any ideas? I tried booting into windows and doing a windows based setup. but doing it that way requires a reboot and it goes into that "setup is analyzing your systems harware" message and just stops there..no cdrom or hdd activity. I would assume no cpu activity since I left it there for like 2 hours w/ no response.

Can anyone provide some insight?
 
How are you doing the install? Is it an upgrade or a clean install? If it was a clean install, was the hard drive formatted before you tried it? Does a Windows 98 or Windows 2000 installation work?
 
i've tried both am upgrade and clean install. For clean install, the drive was not already formatted, I wanted the WinXP installtion to repartition and format the drive. I am going ot try a win2000 install tonight, she has win98 on it so I'm assuming win98 works 😛
 
When you get that message do you see the hard drive light on? If it is, then it might be doing something...but I don't know why it would take so long. Try doing a Scandisk or a virus check to make sure that your drive is in working condition. Has she experienced any crashes or weird things happening to her computer recently? If so, it might be hard drive related.
 
Pull all of the unnecessary PCI cards out (NIC, Sound Card, etc..) as well as all but one stick of RAM if you have more than one. Take it all the way down to what you need to install the OS. Its obviously having an issue with some item of hardware. If it installs after you do all of this then put the items back in one at a time and reboot in between each item. Double check the device manager to make sure your device was recognized and installed correctly, EACH TIME.

Let us know how it goes.
 
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