Win XP Pro upgrade from Win98SE - Blocking issue

I am trying to upgrade a Windows 98 SE machine to Windows XP Pro. We are
encountering a Blocking issue, incompatibility between video card and
mainboard. We have tried different video cards, AGP both Nividia and ATI
chipsets, different types of chipsets, i.e MX440, 5200, ATI Rage, 9200SE.

Yesterday we replaced the mainboard and the same thing occurs. I pulled an
old Trident PCI card from an antique and the same thing occurs. This is
obviously something in the Registry I think.

Anyone have a suggestion?

thanks
--
Phil Gilbert
Free Radical, LTD.

Well if you replaced the board,no hd will boot-up,you need to boot to xp cd,
then recovery,press enter for password,then typeiskPart In DiskPart delete
the C: partition,then create one,then press Esc Then type:FORMAT C: /FS:ntfs
When its thru type:EXIT Reboot to xp cd,select install xp,sometimes it runs
auto to the install section since no os is present.You can,select the 1st X
to
install xp,then delete the os,xp then formats but microsoft says the other
way
is a true "fresh install" of xp.

"frdbadf" wrote:

> I am trying to upgrade a Windows 98 SE machine to Windows XP Pro. We are
> encountering a Blocking issue, incompatibility between video card and
> mainboard. We have tried different video cards, AGP both Nividia and ATI
> chipsets, different types of chipsets, i.e MX440, 5200, ATI Rage, 9200SE.
>
> Yesterday we replaced the mainboard and the same thing occurs. I pulled an
> old Trident PCI card from an antique and the same thing occurs. This is
> obviously something in the Registry I think.
>
> Anyone have a suggestion?
>
> thanks
> --
> Phil Gilbert
> Free Radical, LTD.

There is no problem with hard drive boot, we simply can't upgrade a complex
insurance agency workstation. It will be a royal pain to reinstall and
configure the array of agency software it has installed upon it.

I have run into this problem once before, same scenario with another client.
A clean install was the final solution, however all he had was MS Works,
Palm pilot and Anti Virus. Clean install is not an option here.

Thanks anyway.

"Andrew E." wrote:

> Well if you replaced the board,no hd will boot-up,you need to boot to xp cd,
> then recovery,press enter for password,then typeiskPart In DiskPart delete
> the C: partition,then create one,then press Esc Then type:FORMAT C: /FS:ntfs
> When its thru type:EXIT Reboot to xp cd,select install xp,sometimes it runs
> auto to the install section since no os is present.You can,select the 1st X
> to
> install xp,then delete the os,xp then formats but microsoft says the other
> way
> is a true "fresh install" of xp.
>
> "frdbadf" wrote:
>
> > I am trying to upgrade a Windows 98 SE machine to Windows XP Pro. We are
> > encountering a Blocking issue, incompatibility between video card and
> > mainboard. We have tried different video cards, AGP both Nividia and ATI
> > chipsets, different types of chipsets, i.e MX440, 5200, ATI Rage, 9200SE.
> >
> > Yesterday we replaced the mainboard and the same thing occurs. I pulled an
> > old Trident PCI card from an antique and the same thing occurs. This is
> > obviously something in the Registry I think.
> >
> > Anyone have a suggestion?
> >
> > thanks
> > --
> > Phil Gilbert
> > Free Radical, LTD.

I am having the exact same problem with an XP Home upgrade from 98SE. I have
tried both AGP and PCI video boards, with no success. The weirdest part is
that I was using an ASUS 6800 video board with an ASUS K7V motherboard. How
could they be incompatible?

If you find an answer, I would appreciate hearing it. I'm at
sidsosin@comcast.net.
Thanks.

"frdbadf" wrote:

> I am trying to upgrade a Windows 98 SE machine to Windows XP Pro. We are
> encountering a Blocking issue, incompatibility between video card and
> mainboard. We have tried different video cards, AGP both Nividia and ATI
> chipsets, different types of chipsets, i.e MX440, 5200, ATI Rage, 9200SE.
>
> Yesterday we replaced the mainboard and the same thing occurs. I pulled an
> old Trident PCI card from an antique and the same thing occurs. This is
> obviously something in the Registry I think.
>
> Anyone have a suggestion?
>
> thanks
> --
> Phil Gilbert
> Free Radical, LTD.

cornet7,

I have encountered this same problem before, twice with DFI mainboards and
again with an MSI mainboard. No matter what combination of mainboard, video
cards etc., there appears to be no getting around this problem. Since my
original post I encountered it again this past weekend 11/21/04. I have a
client who has a volume license for WinXP. Each of the past 2 times I
encountered this problem it was with this client and a clean install is not a
easy solution. This past time the problem occured on an AMD2500XP, MSI
mainboard (of course I tried different makes/types of video cards). I
mirrored the hard drive and brought the mirrored copy to my office and tried
to upgrade the OS with a P4 3.0GHZ, ECS mainboard and bam!, same blocking
issue. Since I was working with a backup drive I used REGEDIT and
searched/deleted all occurences of old display cards, mainboards even
chipsets. Ran setup and the same problem occurred. There has to be a flag
set or something somewhere in the registry. Microsoft website only mentions
some program that causes this, to delete all occurences of FWENC.EXE (sp) (IT
DOESN"T EXIST)! This is frustrating, this particular client has 5 different
departments, very much different programs per department, UNIX integration,
several networked printers.... A clean install can be as much as a day of
installing/configuring!

It looks as if we are banging our head against a wall. Sorry I have found
nothing because I have attempted damn near everything. Will let you know if
anything happens.

"cornet7" wrote:

> I am having the exact same problem with an XP Home upgrade from 98SE. I have
> tried both AGP and PCI video boards, with no success. The weirdest part is
> that I was using an ASUS 6800 video board with an ASUS K7V motherboard. How
> could they be incompatible?
>
> If you find an answer, I would appreciate hearing it. I'm at
> sidsosin@comcast.net.
> Thanks.
>
> "frdbadf" wrote:
>
> > I am trying to upgrade a Windows 98 SE machine to Windows XP Pro. We are
> > encountering a Blocking issue, incompatibility between video card and
> > mainboard. We have tried different video cards, AGP both Nividia and ATI
> > chipsets, different types of chipsets, i.e MX440, 5200, ATI Rage, 9200SE.
> >
> > Yesterday we replaced the mainboard and the same thing occurs. I pulled an
> > old Trident PCI card from an antique and the same thing occurs. This is
> > obviously something in the Registry I think.
> >
> > Anyone have a suggestion?
> >
> > thanks
> > --
> > Phil Gilbert
> > Free Radical, LTD.