re: XP installation problem Saturday, October 8, 2005 at 5:00 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by James (4 messages posted) I tried installing with no hard drive, no power to them and one stick of RAM at a time(I have 2 512s) It didn't work either way. They're both Kingston and one of them is only maybe 3-4 months old. It's just weird that neither one of them would work. I don't think it's due to a virus. I haven't had a chance to try the cd in a different PC, but I have made setup floppy diskettes directly from the MS website and that didn't work either. Also, I might have mislead you in saying that it was a virus. I apologize. While I have been getting a lot more viruses lately, it's this spyware called surfsidekick and it is very persistent. Everything else, I could get rid of except this one. It keeps rewriting itself. Nevertheless, I just want to be able to put a new hard drive in my PC. So, do I get new RAMs? On Saturday, October 8, 2005 at 4:59 am, Ken wrote: > >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 >color=red>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 >color=red>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. > > > Written in response to: re: XP installation problem (Ken: Saturday, October 8, 2005 at 4:59 am) Responses to this message: re: XP installation problem (Ken: Saturday, October 8, 2005 at 5:50 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] XP installation problem (James: Fri, Oct 7, 2005, 1:33 pm) re: XP installation problem (Ken: Fri, Oct 7, 2005, 7:45 pm) re: XP installation problem (James: Fri, Oct 7, 2005, 10:17 pm) re: XP installation problem (Ken: Sat, Oct 8, 2005, 4:59 am) re: XP installation problem (James: Sat, Oct 8, 2005, 5:00 pm) re: XP installation problem (Ken: Sat, Oct 8, 2005, 5:50 pm) re: XP installation problem (James: Sun, Oct 9, 2005, 4:10 pm) re: XP installation problem (Ken: Sun, Oct 9, 2005, 5:06 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum