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XP installation problems...please help!

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Tullphan

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I'm installing XP on a friends machine. He previously had ME on there, but I deleted the partition during the XP setup.
My problem is, after it is finished installing & reboots, on the XP Pro splash screen where the bar goes across on the bottom, the bar hangs up after the 2nd pass thru. I've reinstalled it & it does the same thing.
I don't have the machine overclocked & have only the video card installed. (It's a Shuttle AK31a board, btw, w/an ATI Rage 128 32mb video card and 256mb Kingston ram)
Can anyone please help? This is keeping me up past my bedtime! 🙁
 
You might want to recheck to see if you have the correct XP video drivers. I couldn't get XP to work until I updated the video drivers on my son's box.
 
I built a machine for a friend at work using a Rage 128 card and WinXP. XP has default drivers for it that it detected and installed fine (I updated to ATI drivers afterward).

Are you using the onboard audio? If so, have you tried disabling that? Check your BIOS and try that first boot with the absolute bare minimum (disable onboard sound, USB, modest RAM timings, etc...).
 
I don't know if I figured it out or not, but the machine has a 50x cd-rom and an unknown to me cdr-w. I unplugged the cdr-w & XP booted fine. Is it possible that XP doesn't like older cdr-w's? Is it possible that if I installed XP SP-1, it would accept the cdr-w?
Thanks for the help.
 
Tullphan, I'd suggest you check to make sure you have the master/slave jumper settings correct for all of your IDE devices.
 
CD-Rom was set on Master, CDR-W was set on Slave. I plugged the CDR-W up by itself & it still locked up during the splash screen. Even if I had the jumper set to slave on the CDR-W & had it connected by itself on the ribbon cable, XP should of at least have gotten to the desktop, yes? I installed 98SE & it recognizes them both.
 
My PC is down or I'd add the link...it's on all the XP Cd's I think too....check the compatable hardware list and see if that drive is listed.
 
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