WinXP x64 freezing at "Setup is starting Windows"

[Guest]

I have just upgraded my dad's PC with a new motherboard, Athlon 64
processor, and DDR400 RAM. I am trying to boot the WinXP x64 CD so I
can install it. After it loads all the drivers, it freezes saying
"Setup is starting Windows". I have left it for 20 minutes and it will
not progress past this screen.

The motherboard has a Serial ATA bus, but I don't use it. All of the
devices are IDE and are connected and jumpered correctly. I have tried
a different IDE cable and a different CD ROM drive. I have tried
disconnecting all of the USB devices. None of these make any
difference.

I have tried disabling ACPI in the BIOS but when I boot the CD I
immediately get a black screen saying that the OS does not have APIC
(sic) enabled, and that I should enable it in the firmware.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Mark

 

[Guest]

Just a quick update - I got a floppy disk with my motherboard which
contains the nForce ATA drivers. I just booted up the XP x64 disc and
pressed F6 to opt to use a 3rd party driver and put the driver disk in.
It then gave me a whole list of drivers from the disk, which included
the nForce ATA driver with "required" next to it. I selected it but was
given an error that the driver isn't compatible with XP x64.

So it would appear that I have bought a motherboard that supports 64
bit processors, but doesn't have any drivers for the 64 bit operating
system?!?!

 

[Malke]

Just a quick update - I got a floppy disk with my motherboard which
contains the nForce ATA drivers. I just booted up the XP x64 disc and
pressed F6 to opt to use a 3rd party driver and put the driver disk
in. It then gave me a whole list of drivers from the disk, which
included the nForce ATA driver with "required" next to it. I selected
it but was given an error that the driver isn't compatible with XP
x64.

So it would appear that I have bought a motherboard that supports 64
bit processors, but doesn't have any drivers for the 64 bit operating
system?!?!

Go to the motherboard mftr.'s website and look for drivers. You can also
post in the newsgroup for 64-bit XP for more help:

microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general

Malke