re: Upgrade from 98 hangs with blank screen after 1st restart
Saturday, November 24, 2001 at 10:07 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by TRAVIS
(10 messages posted)
It might be your BIOS, did you ever check that, i know before i could upgrade my
computer it need the BIOS that worked with 2000. It needs to be a special BIOS, if
you look in the upgrade book it tells you all about it. and when your computer starts
up it cn tell you what BIOS it is, you can probally go to the web site and download
it. Since i bought mine they had the upgrade on the site of the manufacture.
On Saturday, November 24, 2001 at 9:44 am, Shaun wrote:
>My upgrade (from 98) hangs up after the first restart. I briefly see the XP logo
>screen before it goes blank after which nothing responds. I have tried everything
>I can find to solve this. I have unplugged everything from my (new AMD Athlon) PC
>except the graphics card (GeForce2 MX200), CD-ROM and hard drive. I have disabled
>the USB and on-board sound and changed the AGP rate to 2x. I have copied the I386
>folder to my hard drive and started the setup from there. I have unplugged the
CD-ROM
>and limited the boot drives to just the HDD. All these possible solutions have been
>suggested to others in this forum, but don’t appear to work for me. I have tried
>booting from the CD when the screen is slightly different (a blue background), but
>the result is the same - it hangs while "setup is starting Windows".
>I have then formatted the HDD and re-installed 98 and tried it all again. Several
>times. It shouldn’t be this difficult, should it ? Can anyone suggest the definitive
>solution (apart from returning the Windows XP upgrade and getting my money back!)
>?
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