-----Original Message-----
I built a brand new PC. No OS EVER installed. I am
trying to install Windows XP Professional. The machine
boots up & loads the files. I get to the Windows XP
Licensing Agreement page and cannot continue past this
point. The only options on the page are: F8 "I agree",
ESC "I do not agree", Page up, & Page down. I hit F* and
there is no response. I have tried hitting F8 on each
page without any success. I have tried to let the PC sit
on each page for a few minutes, then hit F8. Still no
response. The PC is not frozen. When I hit ESC, it
exits the setup and reboots. What should I try next? I
reset the CCMOS on the motherboard and looked through the
BIOS and did not see anything out of place. Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Abit NF7-S Motherboard
AMD AthlonXP 2800+ (333fsb)
Corsair PC2700 DDR SDRAM (1GB)
Western Digital Caviar 120GB HD
Asylum GeForceFX 5700 Ultra
Windows XP Professional
.
I've got a very similar problem with my notebook PC, yet
unresolved: For about a year proud owner of a "TARGA
Visionary 1900 WS" notebook PC, which is a AMD based
system with WinXP home edition preloaded. The amentioned
PC worked relatively satisfactorily, but recently it
developed more and more system freezes and other errors,
usually due to driver confliccts (of devices I had
deinstalled ages ages ago!) and I was unable to log onto
the internet or create any new dialup connections - the
option presented itself as blanked out. I tried with the
help of the WinXp help ysytem and MS support site all
sorts of measures incl. viruschecking, WinXP-
rerinstallation etc., but to no avail, things got only
worse eg. that most of my application became inaccessible,
and I was still unable to get onto the internet. In the
end I decided to download my personal files onto a zip-
disk, reformat the harddisk and to perform a "clean
install" of WinXP - this however proved to be very
difficult if not impossible. I have already wasted
numerous hours with many fruitless attempts incl. numerous
reformatting and partitioning, BIOS updating etc. and seem
to go in circles, and I am on the verge of applying
physical and destructive force to the afore mentiond PC.
Therefor I'd be very grateful if you could hand onto me
any constructive suggestions how to solve this little
problem and render my notebook PC useable again by
reinstalling a working OS.
The sequence of events on my last ateempt appearing on the
PC screen was as follows:
insertion of OEM MS Windows XP Home Edition [WinXP] disk
(Targa Product Recovery CD-ROM, Mat.Nr. 1041630,
prod. key K4VFW-CMP2D-4VTYF-492TR-2KMHQ)
"setup is expecting your hardware config. ..."
[blue screen] "win setup ... " (loading setup files)
"setup starting windows"
"welcome to setup"
"to setup win press 'Enter'"
[EULA] "press 'F8' to agree"
"to create a partition on unpartioned space press 'C'"
"to setup WinXP on selected item press 'Enter'"
"format using NMTFS file sys"
[setup formatting partion]
"to setup WinXP press 'Enter'"
[EULA] "press 'F8' to agree"
"to setup WinXP on selected item
(i.e. C: partition 1 [NTFS] 20003 MB)
press 'Enter'"
"you chose to install WinXP on a partition that contains
another OS,
which might cause the other OS to function improperly ...
To continue setup using this partition press 'C'"
"setup will install WinXP on partion C: ... ...
"Press 'Enter' to continue"
"Caution: A \Windows folder already exists
that may contain a win installation ...
will be overwritten ...
All files will be deleted ..."
To use the folder and delete the existing win
installation in it, press 'L'"
"Please wait while setup examines your disk ..."
"Please wait while setup copies files"
"Please wait ... (for this or the other) ..."
"This part of setup has completed sucessfully"
[sys reboot]
"setup is inspecting ypur PC's hardware config"
"win setup"
"setup is starting win"
"welcome to setup
to setup WinXP now, press 'ENTER'"
[EULA] ...
[et da capo ad nauseam infinitum!]
variant using downloaded WinXP setup disks:
(WinXP_EN_HOM_BF.exe)
"TARGA ready for you" splash screen
"setup is inspecting ..."
"win setup"
"please insert .. setup disk #2 into drive A:"
(insertion of disk #2 + 'Enter')
"File \ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded.
The error code is 7
setup cannot continue
press any key to exit."
Sincerely
Peter Mahr
