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Win XP installation problem

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by basket43 Aug 20, 2002 last reply Aug 20, 2002

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My problem is that When I run the setup on my pc, windows xp hangs at the starting windows xp screen prior to selecting the hard drive to install to. I have tried swapping hard drives and cables. The jumper settings are correct on the hard drive. What could be the problem. I believe it maybe a faulty motherboard. The bios locates the hard drive properly.

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by qballrail Aug 20, 2002

If you are running anything less than 400Mhz, good luck. It probably won't work. Make sure you have at LEAST 128M, but I recommend 256. Did you run another OS on it previously with success?
If so, it's not your MB.. You'd also get error messages. Your system probably doesn't meet the minimum specs for install.

by basket43 Aug 20, 2002

Yes running 256 mb mem, on an amd 1800 chip, have not been able to run another os on it. could it also be faulty memory

by mdmonte Aug 20, 2002

I have had similar issues twice before - setup gets to the same stage each time and then dies ungracefully. Once on a PII 350, and once on a PII400, both with 128Mb of RAM. Both times it was faulty RAM. I take it that running the hardware compatibility check comes up clean?