XP Setup problem

[Bruce]

Hello,
I successfully installed my Windows XP on a ECS K7S5a Pro
motherboard with Athlon 2.1 gig processor. I successfully
used the machine the first time I logged on to my Windows
XP PC. However, I shut down the machine properly, then
powered it up, and I noticed some weirdness (mouse would
not respond when I started up a game I played on the
initial logon mentioned above.

Things got really bad so I ended up uninstalling XP.
When I attempted to reinstall it from the CD, I booted
from the CD and the blue Windows Setup screen came up.
Then a couple different messages came up on the bottom line
telling me to press F2 and then another line said to press
F6. I did neither, and then the F6 message went away, and
I got one of two things:

1- Nothing at all happened (bluw screen with "Windows
Setp" title and no other messages (I waited for 20
minutes).
2-Error message displayed
"An unexpected error (0) occurred at
d:\xpclient\base\boot\setup\arcdisp.c"

I tried many things and got the exact same result:
0- Tried a different XP CD.
1- Purchased another motherboard of the same exact model
and processor type.
2- tried installing with a different AGP card installed.
3- Tried disconnecting the DVD and floppy drives.
4- reformatted hard drive using utilities that came with
hard drive as well as using fdisk.
5-Tried different hard drive

**NOTE**I installed windows 98 successfully, so then I
tried
removing windows 98, and installing XP, but got the
same results!!!!!!!

I do not know what to do, any help would be appreciated!!!
Thanks,
Bruce

 

[Jim]

-----Original Message-----
Hello,
I successfully installed my Windows XP on a ECS K7S5a Pro
motherboard with Athlon 2.1 gig processor. I successfully
used the machine the first time I logged on to my Windows
XP PC. However, I shut down the machine properly, then
powered it up, and I noticed some weirdness (mouse would
not respond when I started up a game I played on the
initial logon mentioned above.

Things got really bad so I ended up uninstalling XP.
When I attempted to reinstall it from the CD, I booted
from the CD and the blue Windows Setup screen came up.
Then a couple different messages came up on the bottom line
telling me to press F2 and then another line said to press
F6. I did neither, and then the F6 message went away, and
I got one of two things:

1- Nothing at all happened (bluw screen with "Windows
Setp" title and no other messages (I waited for 20
minutes).
2-Error message displayed
"An unexpected error (0) occurred at
d:\xpclient\base\boot\setup\arcdisp.c"

I tried many things and got the exact same result:
0- Tried a different XP CD.
1- Purchased another motherboard of the same exact model
and processor type.
2- tried installing with a different AGP card installed.
3- Tried disconnecting the DVD and floppy drives.
4- reformatted hard drive using utilities that came with
hard drive as well as using fdisk.
5-Tried different hard drive

**NOTE**I installed windows 98 successfully, so then I
tried
removing windows 98, and installing XP, but got the
same results!!!!!!!

I do not know what to do, any help would be appreciated!!!
Thanks,
Bruce
.

Hello Bruce
sounds to me like maybe a bad Ram but since you installed
98 with no problem and everything worked fine, I will ask
this, what kind of harddrive partitioning and formating
software are you using XP will conflict with most of
them, XP has all the tools needed to partition and format
a harddrive built in all you have to do is boot from the
CD and when the it says >Press any Key to Boot From CD<
then hit any key and it will walk you through the
process, if that doesn't work I would run >fdisk< from a
bootdisk and delete all partitions and the pop the XP CD
in and try it again.
Hope this helps
Jim