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I am trying to boot from the XP Home disc. It gets all the way to preparing
to start Windows and then does nothing. Any ideas?
 
Mike said:
I am trying to boot from the XP Home disc. It gets all the way to preparing
to start Windows and then does nothing. Any ideas?
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possibly faulty ram, if you can download memtest86 and run the scan on
the system.

Flamer.
 
possibly faulty ram, if you can download memtest86 and run the scan on
the system.
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FYI, it should be memtest86+. Development on Memtest86 was stopped some
years ago.
 
I am trying to boot from the XP Home disc. It gets all the way to preparing
to start Windows and then does nothing. Any ideas?
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What are you trying to accomplish by booting from the installation CD? Are
you trying to install it? If so usually installation problems are do to
faulty hardware. Is this a clean install or repair install? What is the
history of this computer? Did it every run XP? If this is a reinstall,
why? Where there problems with the system? Here is a link with tips on how
to troubleshoot hardware. Start checking the memory and hard drive.

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html
 
The customer said he downloaded an HP print driver for ME to burn to disc for
a friend. Prior to that the machine had started to run bad. After that the
machine ran worse until it would not boot. I was trying to boot to the XP
disc to run chkdsk. If that did not help I was going to do a repair install.
 
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I am trying to boot from the XP Home disc. It gets all the way to preparing
to start Windows and then does nothing. Any ideas?
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In the BIOS is it actually set up to boot from the hard disk? Did you
take the windows CD out? There is a point during the install process
where it actually wants to start from the (partial) copy of windows it
has put on the hard drive, but if the BIOS is set to only boot from CD
for instance, I've seen it get in a knot about then.

It may also need drivers for oddball disk controllers (eg SATA, or
SCSI), but if the install CD is SP2 then most of that is now covered. If
not, then you needed to supply them (with F6, and a floppy disk) during
the install process.

When you say does 'nothing' I assume we are talking black screen? Or is
there some message showing at the time??
 
Mike said:
Ran Seatools and it says everything is fine.
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Then go through the rest of the troubleshooting steps at the link Rock gave
you. Swap out the power supply.

Malke
 
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