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[Guest]

Just built my first pc, put my Windows XP Home disc in my rom, rebooted
[changed the boot seq. in bios to boot from cd-rom] and a very bright blue
screen came up that said welcome to Windows XP setup page. The bottom of the
screen showed it was gathering information. Upon finishing gathering info, it
gave me 3 options, one of which said, Press Enter To Install XP, which I did.
It then proceded to the "end user lic. agreement [several pages] I scrolled
to the bottom reading very little as it is far too wordy. At the bottom of
the page, three options were present
1 - F8=I agree
2 - ESQ if you disagree.
3 - Exit the setup. Or something very close to that.
I pressed F8 and nothing happened, it just hangs, doing nothing. Rebooted
many times and tried, to no avail. If I press ESQ it will just reboots and
the process starts all over again. I'm hoping someone can give me some
advice. Would be very appreciative.
Don't know if it makes a difference or not but I have two sata hdd's so my
bios shows there is no primary master or slave and my secondary master and
slave are a dvd-rw and dvd-rom. I just put the drives in and hit go.
Thanks for any help.
Joe

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Just built my first pc, put my Windows XP Home disc in my rom,
rebooted [changed the boot seq. in bios to boot from cd-rom] and a
very bright blue screen came up that said welcome to Windows XP
setup page. The bottom of the screen showed it was gathering
information. Upon finishing gathering info, it gave me 3 options,
one of which said, Press Enter To Install XP, which I did. It then
proceded to the "end user lic. agreement [several pages] I scrolled
to the bottom reading very little as it is far too wordy. At the
bottom of the page, three options were present 1 - F8=I agree
2 - ESQ if you disagree.
3 - Exit the setup. Or something very close to that.
I pressed F8 and nothing happened, it just hangs, doing nothing.
Rebooted many times and tried, to no avail. If I press ESQ it will
just reboots and the process starts all over again. I'm hoping
someone can give me some advice. Would be very appreciative.
Don't know if it makes a difference or not but I have two sata
hdd's so my bios shows there is no primary master or slave and my
secondary master and slave are a dvd-rw and dvd-rom. I just put the
drives in and hit go.

Did your SATA controller and/or motherboard and/or computer come with any
special "diskettes" with drives on them..?

You may have to press F6 during that "bottom of the screen showed it was
gathering information" stage to load said drivers for your hard disk
controller.

 

[Guest]

Just built my first pc, put my Windows XP Home disc in my rom,
rebooted [changed the boot seq. in bios to boot from cd-rom] and a
very bright blue screen came up that said welcome to Windows XP
setup page. The bottom of the screen showed it was gathering
information. Upon finishing gathering info, it gave me 3 options,
one of which said, Press Enter To Install XP, which I did. It then
proceded to the "end user lic. agreement [several pages] I scrolled
to the bottom reading very little as it is far too wordy. At the
bottom of the page, three options were present 1 - F8=I agree
2 - ESQ if you disagree.
3 - Exit the setup. Or something very close to that.
I pressed F8 and nothing happened, it just hangs, doing nothing.
Rebooted many times and tried, to no avail. If I press ESQ it will
just reboots and the process starts all over again. I'm hoping
someone can give me some advice. Would be very appreciative.
Don't know if it makes a difference or not but I have two sata
hdd's so my bios shows there is no primary master or slave and my
secondary master and slave are a dvd-rw and dvd-rom. I just put the
drives in and hit go.

Did your SATA controller and/or motherboard and/or computer come with any
special "diskettes" with drives on them..?

You may have to press F6 during that "bottom of the screen showed it was
gathering information" stage to load said drivers for your hard disk
controller.

He is right. It is most likely a hardware issue causing the hang. At that
stage of setup, it searches hard disks for existing windows installations.
The software would be on a floppy diskette. Check that, check your hard
drives, check your cables.
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CT</a>, or <a href"http://www.creative3.net/">Windows Help CT</a> there are
places to go, check out windows forums.

 

[Guest]

Hi Joe,

May be due to that your F8 key may be unresponsive due to the fact you are
using a multifunction keyboard. Does your keyboard have a F-Lock key or
something similar? If so depress it while at the F8 I agree screen. Maybe
try another keyboard that does not have this functionality if that does not
work. (Standard 101 or 102).

 

[Plato]

I pressed F8 and nothing happened, it just hangs, doing nothing. Rebooted

Sometimes one has to use a non-ms keyboard ie a standard keyboard to get
F8 to work.