Windows XP Installation

[Guest]

I have an AMD Athlon xp 2600 with an ATI 9500 pro and a WD 400eb 40gb hd with
768mb 233DDR ram and a sound blaster card. I have a cd rewriter drive and a
dvd rom drive.
My problem is this when installing windows xp on to the hd i get as far as
the blue screen which says windows is starting up then the system halts and
nothing more happens.
I've tried reformating the hd using wd hd tools, i've run the diagnostic
tools on the drive all comes back okay.
The machine will accept a full installation of windows 98se but will not
accept an upgrade to xp pro as i bet to the same screen after windows reboots
into setup that is the blue screen saying windows is starting up.
could anyone help please

 

[Rock]

I have an AMD Athlon xp 2600 with an ATI 9500 pro and a WD 400eb 40gb hd with
768mb 233DDR ram and a sound blaster card. I have a cd rewriter drive and a
dvd rom drive.
My problem is this when installing windows xp on to the hd i get as far as
the blue screen which says windows is starting up then the system halts and
nothing more happens.
I've tried reformating the hd using wd hd tools, i've run the diagnostic
tools on the drive all comes back okay.
The machine will accept a full installation of windows 98se but will not
accept an upgrade to xp pro as i bet to the same screen after windows reboots
into setup that is the blue screen saying windows is starting up.
could anyone help please

Have you run he upgrade advisor? Also check the memory using these two
programs. Let them run for several hours each.

Memtest86+
http://www.memtest.org/

Windows Memory Diagnostic
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

 

[Steve N.]

I have an AMD Athlon xp 2600 with an ATI 9500 pro and a WD 400eb 40gb hd with
768mb 233DDR ram and a sound blaster card. I have a cd rewriter drive and a
dvd rom drive.
My problem is this when installing windows xp on to the hd i get as far as
the blue screen which says windows is starting up then the system halts and
nothing more happens.
I've tried reformating the hd using wd hd tools, i've run the diagnostic
tools on the drive all comes back okay.
The machine will accept a full installation of windows 98se but will not
accept an upgrade to xp pro as i bet to the same screen after windows reboots
into setup that is the blue screen saying windows is starting up.
could anyone help please

Test your RAM. XP is very picky about RAM, way more so than 98 is.

http://www.memtest.org/

Steve N.

 

[Mistoffolees]

I have an AMD Athlon xp 2600 with an ATI 9500 pro and a WD 400eb 40gb hd with
768mb 233DDR ram and a sound blaster card. I have a cd rewriter drive and a
dvd rom drive.
My problem is this when installing windows xp on to the hd i get as far as
the blue screen which says windows is starting up then the system halts and
nothing more happens.
I've tried reformating the hd using wd hd tools, i've run the diagnostic
tools on the drive all comes back okay.
The machine will accept a full installation of windows 98se but will not
accept an upgrade to xp pro as i bet to the same screen after windows reboots
into setup that is the blue screen saying windows is starting up.
could anyone help please

Is the AMD Athlon CPU being over-clocked, intentionally or
unintentionally? Need to verify; IIRC, the Athlon CPU's do
not have a speed lock.

 

[Guest]

I've checked the memory this comes back fine no errors
I don't think the clock speed has been overclocked this clock speed being is
1955mhz

 

[Guest]

I've checked the memory this has come back all okay

 

[Guest]

I've checked the clock speed on this processor i don't think its been clocked
the speed being 1955mhz

 

[Rock]

I've checked the memory this comes back fine no errors
I don't think the clock speed has been overclocked this clock speed being is
1955mhz

:

What is the configuration in terms of memory chips? Where they added at
the same time or was one added later? XP is very fussy about memory.
Try the installation with just one chip installed.