re: XP installation problem
Saturday, October 8, 2005 at 4:59 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ken
(930 messages posted)
The "press F6" instruction at the bottom of the screen occurs VERY early in the install
process, usually within a minute or so. If you are not even getting this far, you
may have a problem with your Install CD, or your CDROM drive. With 1 GB of RAM, you
don't even need a hard drive in the PC to get ALL the setup files loaded (into RAM)
and take you to the screen where you specify the install drive. Then it will tell
you no drive was found. See this link for more info.
As far as you having a RAM virus, I haven't heard of any that can persist beyond
a system shutdown, which flushes the RAM. See this thread also.
If you have a second CD drive in your PC, try installing from it. If you have access
to another PC, try your WinXP Install CD in it and see if you get past the initial
Setup screen. Try disconnecting the SATA drive power cable and data cable to eliminate
it as a possible source of conflict (you won't get to install fully, but you'll narrow
down the cause). Try another known good stick of RAM by itself.
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