Cannot reinstall XP - blue screen.

[michelle]

Hello,

I had xp home edition upgrade, last night my pc shut ok.
This morning it was in a "reboot loop" and i couldnt get
into windows. I tried reinstalling xp, and kept getting
various errors - it would not complete. So i reformated
the c:\ and installed 98, tghen the upgrade of xp - still
got a blue screen before the installation could complete.
I also tried a full install of xp. Windows 98 works fine
but XP will not install. The error i am getting onm the
blue screen is irq_l_not_less_or_equal

My config:

AMD 2400, ddr ram, integrated 32mb graphics ASrock K7VM2
motherboard. one formatted master HD (80gb) and one slave
(20gb) - i dont want to format the slave if i can avoid
it.

I have run checkdisk and scandisk, but to no avail. If
anyone can offer any help, i'd very much appreciate it.

many thanks

michelle

 

[Guest]

one thing michelle...doing an upgrade as you say is not only undesirable, but completely unnecessary. Try installing from the WindowsXP cd and just make sure you have the Win98 cd handy as it will ask for that. Upgrading, despite Microsoft's best effort, is still a horrid way to progress. Bad settings, invalid settings, some problems from incompatibilities and other gremlins will find their way over.

As for blue screening, I would say you should get your memory checked out. Blue screens on installs are so often caused by memory issues.

 

[michelle]

Thanks for your message. I have tried the clean install,
by booting from the xp cd, but when it gets to around 80%
it continually produces error messges for files that it
can't find, and asking for the cd (which it is running!),
it quits at around 98%. I have even searched the cd on
another computer for the files it can't find during
setup, and they are there!!

Thanks for your time

michelle

I am able to run windows 98 ok -

-----Original Message-----
one thing michelle...doing an upgrade as you say is not

only undesirable, but completely unnecessary. Try
installing from the WindowsXP cd and just make sure you
have the Win98 cd handy as it will ask for that.
Upgrading, despite Microsoft's best effort, is still a
horrid way to progress. Bad settings, invalid settings,
some problems from incompatibilities and other gremlins
will find their way over.

As for blue screening, I would say you should get your

memory checked out. Blue screens on installs are so
often caused by memory issues.