re: installation problems
Thursday, November 22, 2001 at 11:19 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Shaun
(2 messages posted)
I've had the same problem for about 2 weeks now, installing XP home edition on a
new computer (AMD Athlon). At the moment I'm thinking my CD is faulty/corrupt. Has
anyone fixed this ?
On Tuesday, October 23, 2001 at 4:03 pm, Mike wrote:
>I have the same problem, execept I've tried both with using the upgrade method and
>the advanced dual boot method, I've copied the i386 directory to the HDD and have
>setup from that, but it seems no matter what method I use it always freezes when
>it goes to reboot the first time when installing. It will copy files and all that
>then its time to reboot and complete the setup, it reboots, they with win xp black
>screen shows up, then a few seconds later the screen goes blank, the keyboard lights
>turn off completely and none of the keys work at all, not even ctrl+alt_delete.
The
>monitor is still on, but no video, the system and everything inside is still going,
>it just seems to freeze, its weird, I've been searching all over to try and find
>someone with similiar experiences but to no avail. And yes my copy of XP works fine,
>because I've used the exact same copy to install on a computer thats about 3 years
>"older" and it installed perfect the first time with no problems. weird. Any suggestions?
>:)
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>On Sunday, October 7, 2001 at 8:26 pm, Killersoft wrote:
>Copy the i386 directory to a spare partition if ypu have 1.
> Or just to you root of c:, then in boot from your win98 floppy and type - c:
>press enter
>cd i386, then winnt, press enter
>select custom install, send XP to which drive you wish.
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