Boot loop during XP Pro SP2 installation

[Guest]

I have a new system I am building and am having a slight issue. I have my
ATA 133 (I've also tried a SATA drive) hard disk partitioned and did a low
level format on it but when setup gets to the point where it prompts me to
either begin a new install or repair an existing install, it reboots and
begins the setup phase again. It will get to the same point and reboot
again. I have partitioned and re-partitioned the drive but can't seem to
actually get the install to begin. The motherboard has on board sound/LAN
but I've disabled those as well thinking that one may be causing a hardware
conflict but to no avail.

Specs are P4 3.2ghz / 1GB PC3200 RAM / ECS 661FX-M7 motherboard.

Only hardware components installed in the PC are a video card, RAM and a DVD
ROM drive.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I've been dealing with this
for a few days and am getting frustrated.

 

[JBrunelle]

I have a new system I am building and am having a slight issue. I have my
ATA 133 (I've also tried a SATA drive) hard disk partitioned and did a low
level format on it but when setup gets to the point where it prompts me to
either begin a new install or repair an existing install, it reboots and
begins the setup phase again. It will get to the same point and reboot
again. I have partitioned and re-partitioned the drive but can't seem to
actually get the install to begin. The motherboard has on board sound/LAN
but I've disabled those as well thinking that one may be causing a hardware
conflict but to no avail.

Specs are P4 3.2ghz / 1GB PC3200 RAM / ECS 661FX-M7 motherboard.

Only hardware components installed in the PC are a video card, RAM and a DVD
ROM drive.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I've been dealing with this
for a few days and am getting frustrated.

Are you running that hard drive off the same IDE channel as your CD/
DVD drive? Make sure your jumper settings are set to master, and have
you HDD on IDE channel 0 as master, and have your CD/DVD as a master
on the other IDE channel. Give this a shot, might work, might not. If
it does not, have you tried the sata using F6 to install specific sata
drivers(depends on chipset ex. nvidia sata, silicon sata...)?

 

[Guest]

Both the hard drive and the DVD ROM are set as masters on separate IDE
channels. I am noticing something else. Right before the system restarts, I
hear a "high pitched whistle" that appears to come from either the CPU or the
CPU fan. The system then restarts. I thought that this could be power
related as I only had a 300W power supply so I bought a 500W and set it up.
The same issue is happening. So now I'm wondering if I have a bad
motherboard/CPU. Not really sure how to determine as the BIOS recognizes all
the components fine.

 

[JBrunelle]

Both the hard drive and the DVD ROM are set as masters on separate IDE
channels. I am noticing something else. Right before the system restarts, I
hear a "high pitched whistle" that appears to come from either the CPU or the
CPU fan. The system then restarts. I thought that this could be power
related as I only had a 300W power supply so I bought a 500W and set it up.
The same issue is happening. So now I'm wondering if I have a bad
motherboard/CPU. Not really sure how to determine as the BIOS recognizes all
the components fine.

Does your bios have a hardware checker? Also, make sure that drive
access methods in your bios are set to auto. If they are, you might
try changing the access methods for the drives. If the video card is a
higer end card, the high whine is most likely the fan on that.