Hi all,
I replaced a PC that was doing some low level stuff. I have plenty of spare NT w/station licences, so I tried to load one onto the new PC.
PC is a white box – Celeron 2.6, 512Mb PC3200 ram, foxconn 661fx4mres mobo w/- onboard vid/lan/snd, 40gb WD hdd, s/sung cdrw. All new parts.
No PCI cards.
Created a partition using fdisk and formatted.
HDD = prim master / CDRW = prim slave
Checked the boot sequence to boot from winnt cd, everything starts as normal, but during load of initial files, while copying cd-rom file system, the install stops, screen fills with zero’s, and im not too sure what else, before disappearing really quickly and re-booting.
If left alone, just continually loops thru this install failure.
Checked all cables – re-seated the RAM – no change.
(changed boot seq)Tried install using the winnt floppies – similar result , but at a slightly different point of the loading of the files.
Moved the cdrw onto the secondary ide – same result. swapped out the cdrw for a cdrom – no change. Removed the cdrw/cdrom completely and used the floppy install – same result.
Tried installing XPPro Sp2 – no problems whatsoever – smooth as.
I know I should prob upgrade in any case from NT to XP, but it has me pissed as to why I cant load NT.
Any thoughts/ideas appreciated.
cheers
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