XP upgrade now freezes at bootup

[miazelli]

I upgraded 3 workstations from Windows 98 to XP-Pro. All
workstations are exactly the same hardware wise.

1 works, no problems at all.

2 workstations, upgraded fine but when booting into
windows before getting to the XP login screen (sort of
still in the DOS area) - Windows will just freeze.

The only fix seems to be to reboot to safe mode, uninstall
the display/video driver, reboot to regular mode where
windows finds new hardware (same uninstalled video driver)
and then works fine until next boot.

Initial Video card: ATI Rage Pro 128, no current drivers
other than those provided by XP.

Did change Video card to see if that was the problem, put
int Radeon 7000 w/latest 2004 drivers and still same
problem.

There is something, after turning on the computer where
you have the Windows logo and a moving bar.... the bar
moves for about 30 seconds and just freezes there until
booting into safe mode, uninstalling video driver, etc.

Can anyone make any suggestions here - at this point it
must be a Windows software conflict or problem.

Thanks !

 

[Cari \(MS MVP\)]

Did you install the motherboard chipset drivers?

 

[Guest]

I guess not as my next question is/would be where would I
get these and how would I know which ones ?

These computers were built by a consulting group 3 years
ago.

 

[Cari \(MS MVP\)]

You'll have to find out which motherboards. Belarc Advisor (www.belarc.com)
or SiSoft Sandra (sorry, don't have the link to hand) can both decipher this
for you or of course you can open the cases and physically inspect the
boards.

 

[Guest]

Thank you, I just reviewed the
registry/hardare/description to see the BIOS version on
the computer that "works" vs. 2 that don't and the BIOS
version is different.
Located the Motherboard: AOPEN33, found latest BIOS
version and downloaded zip, extracted to exe file and now
when I double click this a quick DOS screen flickers and
nothing after that (no update). How do I update this
particular BIOS as the AX33 website does not give any
guidance with this.

-----Original Message-----
You'll have to find out which motherboards. Belarc

Advisor (www.belarc.com)

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

You cannot do this from within Windows. You must create a bootable floppy
disk and another floppy with the unzipped AOPEN BIOS file.

A general FAQ on BIOS
http://www.phoenix.com/en/customer+services/bios/bios+faq/default1.htm

 

[Guest]

Thanks, I will try this. Usually the exe file will prompt
for a floppy and create the boot disk -

So I will create a boot disk and then use the exe from the
2nd floppy within DOS ?

hmmm always something to learn.