xp install

[bill]

trying to load xp on newly built machine. Asus mb A7V8X-
X,Athlon 2800+, 1gig corsair mem, Nvidia FX5200. Setup
loads the ram disk files, when it reaches the point
of "setup is starting windows" it stops. Does any one
have any ideas of what is wrong?
thanks Bill

 

[bill]

-----Original Message-----
trying to load xp on newly built machine. Asus mb A7V8X-
X,Athlon 2800+, 1gig corsair mem, Nvidia FX5200. Setup
loads the ram disk files, when it reaches the point
of "setup is starting windows" it stops. Does any one
have any ideas of what is wrong?
thanks Bill
.
I was able to get it to work by hittig F5 and setting to

just standard pc. Thanks Carey I found the from your
answer to anothers question
t6hanks bill

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
trying to load xp on newly built machine. Asus mb A7V8X-
X,Athlon 2800+, 1gig corsair mem, Nvidia FX5200. Setup
loads the ram disk files, when it reaches the point
of "setup is starting windows" it stops. Does any one
have any ideas of what is wrong?
thanks Bill
.

You can try to copy the setup files onto your harddrive
from a floppy disk boot up then install from the
harddrive. I dunno why setup would freeze that way though.

 

[Gerald]

Since this is a newly built machinne, (new motherboard?)-
Check the CPU bus speed setting. Initially, the jumper
(JP2) was set to 'Auto' from the manufacturer (L4VXA2 P4
motherboard; Celeron 2.66 GHz CPU, 400 MHz FSB) Changed it
to '533' (I'm running one stick of 512 MB DDR RAM. When I
first started XP and W2K installs, I first had to disable
L1/L2 cache which of course is really slow, and after
reboot re-enabled it - still crashed. Resetting the mobo's
bus speed corrected the problem. Now it flies!
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