Setup is being restarted .........

[Guest]

The above is the message I currently have on my (other) machine, which is a
Compaq AP550, running two 866 P3s, 768 Mb ram, with 8.5 Gb spare on first
scsi hard drive.

Question, what is Windows XP pro doing? It has been like this for several
hours now.

History: All running fine then decided to change graphics card. Forgot to
unload old card drivers. Installed new card, screen froze. Attempted to
repair by using XP Pro cd and using second 'R'. Screen froze. Replaced new
card with original. Attempted to start up XP, got "Setup is being restarted
.......". Used XP cd to boot, second 'R'. got "Setup is being restarted ....."

At boot there is a lot of hard drive chuntering. Then there is a dim blip,
about every second, on the hd light. That goes on and on. Is XP doing some
sort of deep hd chkdsk?.

Thanks for your help,
Bob

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Did you run the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor before attempting to upgrade?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx


--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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:

The above is the message I currently have on my (other) machine, which is a
Compaq AP550, running two 866 P3s, 768 Mb ram, with 8.5 Gb spare on first
scsi hard drive.

Question, what is Windows XP pro doing? It has been like this for several
hours now.

History: All running fine then decided to change graphics card. Forgot to
unload old card drivers. Installed new card, screen froze. Attempted to
repair by using XP Pro cd and using second 'R'. Screen froze. Replaced new
card with original. Attempted to start up XP, got "Setup is being restarted
.......". Used XP cd to boot, second 'R'. got "Setup is being restarted ....."

At boot there is a lot of hard drive chuntering. Then there is a dim blip,
about every second, on the hd light. That goes on and on. Is XP doing some
sort of deep hd chkdsk?.

Thanks for your help,
Bob

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Did you run the Windows XP Upgrade Advisor?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/upgrading/advisor.mspx

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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:

The above is the message I currently have on my (other) machine, which is a
Compaq AP550, running two 866 P3s, 768 Mb ram, with 8.5 Gb spare on first
scsi hard drive.

Question, what is Windows XP pro doing? It has been like this for several
hours now.

History: All running fine then decided to change graphics card. Forgot to
unload old card drivers. Installed new card, screen froze. Attempted to
repair by using XP Pro cd and using second 'R'. Screen froze. Replaced new
card with original. Attempted to start up XP, got "Setup is being restarted
.......". Used XP cd to boot, second 'R'. got "Setup is being restarted ....."

At boot there is a lot of hard drive chuntering. Then there is a dim blip,
about every second, on the hd light. That goes on and on. Is XP doing some
sort of deep hd chkdsk?.

Thanks for your help,
Bob

 

[Guest]

No, I was just simply trying to change a graphics card, Surely I don't have
to know the deep macinations of Windows to do that? What is Windows XP
Upgrade Advisor? Why, if it is so important, was I not warned that the simple
task of changing a graphics card would lead to a complete loss of all my work?

Let's hope that is not the case. Can you answer my question please, what is
XP doing?

Rgds, Bob

 

[Guest]

Boot into Safe Mode, open Device Manger,
right-click on your Display Adapter(s) and select
"uninstall". Reboot the PC normally and Windows
XP will install a generic VGA driver. Then you
can uninstall any existing video adapter software,
then download and install the latest software
from the web site of the video adapter chipset
manufacturer.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
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