re: Problems installing Windows XP 2002
Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 2:43 am
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Posted by Kiwi
(2207 messages posted)
I have done something similar to what your friend had to do, but it's more because
I forgot to keep a Ghosted image, or I've altered the hardware enough to disturb
the OS severely (I tend to do a lot of hardware swapping, which is another reason
that WinXP is secondary to W2K on a majority of my systems).
When it's an entire mainboard that changed, that's a lot for the OS to swallow, and
a repair is going to be needed. That's when I've found it helps to remove everything
the system can do without. And that's when I will have no Ghost image I can use
. .
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Kiwi
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On Friday, July 4, 2008 at 2:00 pm, Spexx wrote:
>A drinking buddy of mine has just told me about his experience with this one. His
>solution was to pull out all the devices not required at installation time such
as
>network card, sound card etc (disable in BIOS if on-board devices) and to use only
>PS/2 keyboard and mouse, not USB. His theory on it was that some PNP devices might
>have been sharing an IRQ or something like that but he couldn't confirm it. Apparently
>the installation (full install - not an upgrade) went as smooth as silk with that
>minimum configuration and he simply added the devices one by one until fully configured.
>Sounds reasonable to me! Hope this helps. Cheers. Spexx.
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