[vicsireland] problem installing windows XP
- From: "Darragh" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:36:15 +0100
Hello,
I am attempting to install windows XP Professional SP2 on this machine. It?s
not the first time I've had to do it but it?s the first time I've
encountered this problem.
After pressing enter to start the installation at boot up it shows the next
screen but will not go any further.
I've narrowed the problem down to the main hard drive. It?s a Maxter IDE
250GB drive with Linux working happily on it at the moment so I can
reasonably confidently say that it?s not dead.
I've had someone look at the configuration jumper and it is as I expected
set at primary master. The IDE Cable configuration is also not the problem.
I've tried checking to see if it will default to the primary master
configuration without the jumper but that doesn't work strangely enough. Am
I imagining that that use to work once upon a time?
The installation does work with another maxter drive that is about 150 GB
but I don't want to use that as it is used for testing.
I'm perplexed. What the hell could be causing the problem. I should
probably mention that this over sized pile of useless metal has never worked
as I'd have liked so I'm really nearing the end of my patients with it.
Just to note as well, before I tried the hard drives, I removed the LAN and
wireless network card, the USB Sound Blaster, the internal PCI sound card,
one of the CDRW's and I tried switching the RAM. The only parts I haven't
tested are the video card and the processor.
I've also reset the bios to falesafe and optimal defaults and tried
redetecting the hard drives.
Please Please Please help. Or, tell me where I can dump the thing. I
wouldn't offer it to anyone as it really is jinxed. I thought of salvaging
parts out of it but because there have been so many issues I'm not even sure
what parts are causing the problems. It?s only just over a year old!
Sorry for the rant.
Darragh Ó Héiligh
Web development, O/S and Application technical support.
Website: http://www.digitaldarragh.com
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