Windows XP Pro Setup: Hangs at "Setup is starting Windows"

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Guest

I am trying to install Windows XP on a freshly formatted hard drive. I start
setup by booting my XP Pro CD. It goes thru the RAID/SCSI and ASR Prompts,
and continues, until it gets to "Setup is starting Windows". It hangs here,
Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work, Num/Caps/Scroll lock don't work, the CD drive
spins down, and hard drive goes idle. I have searched through about every KB
article on the subject, and nothing seems to work. About the only thing I
haven't tried is installing WinME and doing an upgrade... But that
*shouldn't* be necessary in any case. I've installed XP to a clean hard
drive before and never had a problem...

System Specs:
Athlon T-Bird 1.3Ghz on Soyo K7-VTAPro Mainboard
40GB Hard Drive, 256MB RAM
NViDIA GeForce2 MX 64MB
 
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Carey Frisch [MVP]

Windows XP Does Not Respond at "Setup Is Starting Windows XP" Message
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310760&Product=winxp

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Windows XP - Shell/User

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| I am trying to install Windows XP on a freshly formatted hard drive. I start
| setup by booting my XP Pro CD. It goes thru the RAID/SCSI and ASR Prompts,
| and continues, until it gets to "Setup is starting Windows". It hangs here,
| Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work, Num/Caps/Scroll lock don't work, the CD drive
| spins down, and hard drive goes idle. I have searched through about every KB
| article on the subject, and nothing seems to work. About the only thing I
| haven't tried is installing WinME and doing an upgrade... But that
| *shouldn't* be necessary in any case. I've installed XP to a clean hard
| drive before and never had a problem...
|
| System Specs:
| Athlon T-Bird 1.3Ghz on Soyo K7-VTAPro Mainboard
| 40GB Hard Drive, 256MB RAM
| NViDIA GeForce2 MX 64MB
 
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Guest

Like I said, I've been thru every KB article on the subject. If anything in
them had worked, I wouldn't be here asking for a person's opinion. I realize
you guys volunteer to do this, but if all you're going to do is be lazy and
try to redirect me to the KB, why bother posting?
 
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Guest

Also, this just occurred to me. If one cannot install the
product, one cannot obtain the product id, and one cannot obtain free
install support.

My disk drive is so new that XP does not recognize it.
I don't have a floppy drive on my branch new 2 cpu opteron
so i'm dead in the water.

stephen
 

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