Screen goes blank during XP install

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Dan

I'm installing XP on a 700mhz Celeron as a clean
installation on a new harddrive. After it reboots, the XP
screen comes up and then about 5 seconds later it goes
black. I let it sit for a long time without any
results. When I manually reboot, it says that setup is
restarting and then blanks out again. Anyone have a fix
for this???

Thanks
 
it probably disagrees with your graphics card. Reinstall
xp and where it mentions the graphics card make sure it
recognized and selected your own. if it still does it
select simple VGA card to start with. then setup your
graphics card anew. To be more sure deselect video + bios
shadow ram in bios setup. It is clearly a video driver
problem or resourse conlict (e.g. interrupt, memory etc).
You could also depress F8 when its starts to load windows
and select safe mode. It will force VGA display and then
in control panel - system click on display adapter to see
if ok.
 
It never gets that far. Setup begins the installation
and copies files to the harddrive and says that it will
reboot in 15 seconds. It reboots, the WinXP screen comes
up with the little bar with the rolling squares and then
the screen goes dark. And stays that way.

It's a 700mhz Celeron processor with the i810 video
chipset and 192meg ram if that helps...
 
I've been having the same problem for several weeks. Win98
is happy on C:\ then I install XP Home Upgrade on C:\ OVER
Win98, and XP Home works FINE. BUT, if I try to install it
onto ANY other partition (by going through the upgrade
process), *or* if I try to install XP Pro (*full-version,
non-upgrade*) onto any other partition (by booting from
the CD-ROM), then it copies all the files, goes through
the 15-second reboot, shows me the XP screen with the
animated scroll bar, then a permanent black screen. I
can't get into Safe Mode since there isn't yet an
operating system fully there. I even tried swapping my
existing hard-drive with a new, clean, unformatted,
unpartitioned HD and installing XP Pro (again, full
version) onto it and get the SAME THING. I *would* say
that it's an incompatible (something), but then why does
XP Home work when installed over Win98, but *not* when
installed in its own partition, even when Win98 is still
there?!?! I can only figure that it's a video-driver issue
that Win98 has the correct drivers for, and we
(apparently) have no way of giving XP the correct drivers
during the installation, although that's silly, 'cuz... I
dunno! Aaaaaaaagghhh!!!
 
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