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XP Installation Problems!!

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deversol

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I finally tried to install XP Pro yesterday, and had a ton of problems...

I have an Asus A7v133 mobo with a 1.3GHz Athlon, 768 MB PC133 RAM, Leadtek GeForce4 Ti4400, and am installing XP on a WD SE 80gb hard drive formatted in NTFS. I also have two other hard drives, one of which I have Windows 2000 installed, but plan on replacing that drive when I get XP working correctly....

I booted with the XP cd and setup started. After it copied the temporary files from the CD, I got a message saying "Starting up Windows" and it just hangs there...I had moved the hard drive from master to slave, and from the primary to secondary IDE port and get the same result...

I then put the hard drive in my roommate's computer and was able to get XP completely installed on that hard drive. I then put that hard drive in my PC, as the master drive, and set up BIOS so that it will boot from there first....I then get an error during boot-up saying something like "Disk read error, press ctrl+alt+delete to reboot"

I did a complete NTFS format again, and reinstalled XP on my roommate's computer. When I put the hard drive back in my PC, I get a blue screen when it tries to boot up...not sure what the error is offhand, will have to check once I get home...

I put in my hard drive with Win2k installed and booted from there...I also had the WD drive that has XP on it installed, and was able to view all of the files in the XP Windows directory, but am just unable to boot from it. I looked at my boot.ini file and it looked fine...

Do you guys have any idea whats going on here? Or do you have a clue how I can get XP installed? Why can I install it easily on my roommate's computer but not on mine? Thanks for any help!
 
Well, you know the hard drive works, at least. So the problem is somewhere else in your hardware. A lot of times, a bad RAM stick can cause problems - try running only 1 stick at a time and see if it will install. It could also be some kind of issue with the new vid card on the old mobo - check to see if a new BIOS is available. You usually cannot move an installed OS from PC to PC without a lot of extra work - differences in the hardware and especially the motherboard chipsets will cause problems. I'd check the RAM first, then look for BIOS updates or other info specific to your hardware next.
 
Thanks for your response. I was able to install Windows 2000 Pro last night on that same hard drive in my PC with no problems. I also installed the latest BIOS version (ver. 1.009) from Asus' website. Then, while in Windows 2000, I inserted the Windows XP cd and started installing it. After the files were copied from the CD, XP rebooted my system. During reboot, the black Windows XP screen came up saying it was loading, and it just froze. I tried to reboot several times and it did the same thing each time. Then, I booted from the Windows XP cd and started to install it again. Once the files were copied from the CD, a message at the bottom of the screen said something like "Starting Microsoft Windows" and it just hangs there...I didnt remove any of the RAM (I forgot to, Ill try that this evening when I get home from work) but I did try different BIOS settings as well as remove all of the other hard drives and CD drives besides the WD drive and a CD drive...to no avail.

Any other ideas as to how I can get XP installed?
 
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