installation of XP hangs at 34 minutes remaining...

[Guest]

I just got new parts for my computer, excluding the hard disk and cd-rom
drives. I've been trying to install Windows XP but it always hangs at 34 or
35 minutes remaining. I've tried everything I could to remedy this problem
but it doesn't work!

What should I do? Please help!

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

What kind of hard drive?

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

This is related to hardware that uses a file called mpegport.sys .

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828267&Product=winxp


Bobby

 

[Guest]

i'm using a 60gb maxtor hard drive, model # D740X-6L

What kind of hard drive?

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I just got new parts for my computer, excluding the hard disk and cd-rom
drives. I've been trying to install Windows XP but it always hangs at 34
or
35 minutes remaining. I've tried everything I could to remedy this problem
but it doesn't work!

What should I do? Please help!

 

[Guest]

i'm not sure if i got any part wrong, but while the only file i could access
was the setupapi.log file,but as i was reading it, setup was continuing in
the background, and ultimately stopped again, preventing me from reading any
other parts of the log file. is it right that i can only view the files in
c:\windows after pressing shift+f10 in the gui screen?

i tried using a win98 startup disk to do into dos to view the files, but
there wasn't any c:\

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I just got new parts for my computer, excluding the hard disk and cd-rom
drives. I've been trying to install Windows XP but it always hangs at 34 or
35 minutes remaining. I've tried everything I could to remedy this problem
but it doesn't work!

What should I do? Please help!

Setup stops responding with 34 minutes remaining
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828267

Windows XP SP1 Installation Stops Responding with About 34 Minutes Remaining
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;815319

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Bruce Chambers

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[Guest]

I've solved the problem! It was my on-board lan device that was acting
weird... i disabled it and everything's fine! but whenever I enable it, the
system hangs... =(

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I had to buy a pci lan card for one machine because the onboard lan was
flaky.

 

[Guest]

I just got new parts for my computer, excluding the hard disk and cd-rom
drives. I've been trying to install Windows XP but it always hangs at 34 or
35 minutes remaining. I've tried everything I could to remedy this problem
but it doesn't work!

What should I do? Please help!

Make sure that your NIC cable is not connected. I had the same problem only
it was hanging at 32 minutes. I unplugged the cable and all was good

 

[Grant Robertson]

This is usually caused by a piece of hardware that is incompatible with
the drivers that are included with the install CD. This can happen even
if a piece of hardware is listed in the Windows Catalog because drivers
may have been updated since the Install CD went to the presses.

Remove every single piece of hardware installed in your PC except what is
absolutely needed to do the install. No NIC's, no sound cards,
temporarily switch to an old standard SVGA video card, only use one plain
CD-ROM drive, no DVD or CD-RW.

This is just to get the install to go through. Once XP is installed you
can add these components one at a time and let PnP discover them and
install drivers or install the manufacturer's drivers as necessary.