Clean install Hangs Past 34 Minutes

[Jimmy]

Hi Folks!

I always have trouble with installing a new OS -- I would be so
surprised if I didn't hit a glitch somewhere. I hope you wouldn't mind
seeing if you might have some ideas that would help. Thanks.

System:

Tyan Trinity AT100 Soket 7 Motherboard
128 MB RAM
AMD K6-2 450MhZ CPU
ATI Rage Video Card
10 GB WD Hard Drive

I was running W98 on this, but I checked the Windows XP System
Requirements, and it seems that there's plenty of capacity to run XP,
so I bought an OEM disk.

After the text setup is done and the computer reboots into GUI mode,
I've gotten as far as Region and Langauage settings, entered the
Product Key, and gone up to about 31 minutes remaining. The monitor
shut down and started up a few times, so I tried a different video
card. I deleted the partition, reformatted, and installed all over
again. Same problem with a different video card.

I've got the motherboard stripped to only the video card, and I've
turned off all USB settings in my BIOS. I can't beleieve that it has
trouble with two different video cards . . . but that's just the kind
of thing that always seems to happen to me.

Any ideas?

Thanks very much,

Jimmy

 

[***** charles]

Hi Folks!

I always have trouble with installing a new OS -- I would be so
surprised if I didn't hit a glitch somewhere. I hope you wouldn't mind
seeing if you might have some ideas that would help. Thanks.

System:

Tyan Trinity AT100 Soket 7 Motherboard
128 MB RAM
AMD K6-2 450MhZ CPU
ATI Rage Video Card
10 GB WD Hard Drive

I was running W98 on this, but I checked the Windows XP System
Requirements, and it seems that there's plenty of capacity to run XP,
so I bought an OEM disk.

After the text setup is done and the computer reboots into GUI mode,
I've gotten as far as Region and Langauage settings, entered the
Product Key, and gone up to about 31 minutes remaining. The monitor
shut down and started up a few times, so I tried a different video
card. I deleted the partition, reformatted, and installed all over
again. Same problem with a different video card.

I've got the motherboard stripped to only the video card, and I've
turned off all USB settings in my BIOS. I can't beleieve that it has
trouble with two different video cards . . . but that's just the kind
of thing that always seems to happen to me.

Any ideas?

Thanks very much,

Jimmy

You won't like the answer but bad spot on the oem install cd?
Do a memtest overnight and an overnight test of the hd surface,
then get back with results. M$ system requirements are the
bare minimum and with them performance sucks. You should
have at least 512M ram for XP. Come to think of it, with
that list of hardware, XP performace will suck anyway and
you'll hate it.

later....

 

[Guest]

Tests wont help that problem(s),purchase more memory ram,512mb is about
min.Also,10GB hd,that wont cut it,even at 10 (mfg lists) you really only have
9GB to 9.5GB,+ windows use more than 2 or 3,+ page file,++++.Purchase another
hard drive,100GB hd sell for under 50.00.Then use the existing one for
storage
and other "page file"..

 

[Guest]

Hi Jimmy
RAM is the issue, according to my knowledge MS minimum spec always was at
least 256MB of RAM and a 233MHz CPU and a 10GB HDD.
This given config will work, but it will frustrate you very quickly. Thus
the suggestions given is great.
Remember RAM is cheaper than CPU, if possible you should increase the speed
of the CPU to at least 1GHz if you will only be using 512MB or less RAM.
If the Mother Board cannot handle SATA drives, any IDE disk @ 20GB or higher
should serve you fine for a while.
Regards

 

[Mario Schmidt]

Hi Jimmy
RAM is the issue, according to my knowledge MS minimum spec always was at
least 256MB of RAM

No, XP will install and run with 128MB. It'll be slow, but thats not the
question here.

Believe it or not, even Windows 2003 Server will install and run with
only 128MB RAM...

Why should he invest in an upgrade just because Windows doesn't install
and won't install aferwards anyway because the problem is something else?

 

[DL]

There is an MS KB article re install hangs at 34 minutes

 

[Jimmy]

There is an MS KB article re install hangs at 34 minutes

I appreciate all the feedback. It seems the concensus is not enough
RAM. I'll start there. Although I'm also thinking about sending it
back just to show them that you can't sell something that advertises
it will work yet not tell you how poorly it will work on or near the
minimum requirements. That's deceptive. I'm sure my credit card
company would back me up on this. Then I'll spend another $100 and get
a new barebone system.

So thanks again for all your ideas. You guys have been great.

Jimmy