Windows XP Installation

[Guest]

Hello,
A client of mine had a custom built computer with windows 98. It has a 933
MHz processor and 256 mb ram. His hard drive died recently and he bought a
new one as well as Windows XP professional. I installed Windows XP and tested
it one my computer. However, when I took it to his computer and hooked it up,
it started booting then had a black screen with a white progress bar moving
across the bottom. However, when it got to the end it froze. It has done this
numerous times. Is this a BIOS problem or does it seem like some other
hardware problem? I now that the installation was successful because it
worked fine on my system. Also the computer does recognize the hard drive.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Hello,
A client of mine had a custom built computer with windows 98. It has
a 933 MHz processor and 256 mb ram. His hard drive died recently and
he bought a new one as well as Windows XP professional. I installed
Windows XP and tested it one my computer. However, when I took it to
his computer and hooked it up, it started booting then had a black
screen with a white progress bar moving across the bottom. However,
when it got to the end it froze. It has done this numerous times. Is
this a BIOS problem or does it seem like some other hardware problem?
I now that the installation was successful because it worked fine on
my system. Also the computer does recognize the hard drive.

So... your machine is identical in every way to their machine?
How long have they been "a client" and is your business "computer repair"?

Windows XP is very particular about hardware - especially since the
activatrion process is determined by it - but it is so for other reasons as
well. You could perform a repair install on his machine.. But to be
honest - you should just install Windows XP on the clients machine with all
of the clients hardware..