This is a weird situation… and I’m not sure how to get this working.
One of our engineers computers went dead the other day and was unable to get back in to Windows, corruption. They had some bad virri problems too. So I backed it all up and tried to reinstall a fresh copy of Windows on a new SATA drive. It goes through the format and the copying of files, but when it reboots and goes to the black Windows XP screen (similar to the one at the startup) and freezes. So, I tried different drives (IDE & SATA, new&old)… no luck. I tried a different computer with the EXACT same specs, chips, etc. No luck.. it still does the same thing. Does anyone have any ideas?
I am able to install any flavor of linux on this machine… but, that is not what these employees require. I need to install Windows XP.
Here are the specs on the machine:
ASUS P4C800-E board 3.2 GHZ Intel
2GB – 80GB (i’ve tried IDE and SATA drives)
Mouse & Keys (tried different sets of these too)
ATI FGL 9700 (I tried differnt vid cards too)
Any assistance on this would be wonderful… I am lost. The other system that I tried to install on I know works fine because I use it as one of my boxes.
