XP Wont Load On My Gateway Profile 2

[Minitman]

Greetings,

I have a Gateway Profile 500 CX (Otherwise known as a Profile 2, the
all-in-one machine circa 1998). I am trying to install XP and it will
not allow me to complete installation.

It gets as far as loading the drivers and than the screen goes blank.
The hard drive is still making noise at this point but after a while
even it stops. I pull the plug (the switch in front has never worked)
and replug. It starts the install all over and bombs at the same
place.

Gateway says XP cannot be loaded onto that machine (after they sold me
a retail copy of XP). Microsoft says that I need a bios upgrade to
take the SP2. Gateway does not have an upgrade,

Does anyone know of a way to load XP onto this machine?

Any help would be most appreciated!

TIA

-Minitman

 

[Martin]

Greetings,

I have a Gateway Profile 500 CX (Otherwise known as a Profile 2, the
all-in-one machine circa 1998). I am trying to install XP and it will
not allow me to complete installation.

It gets as far as loading the drivers and than the screen goes blank.
The hard drive is still making noise at this point but after a while
even it stops. I pull the plug (the switch in front has never worked)
and replug. It starts the install all over and bombs at the same
place.

Gateway says XP cannot be loaded onto that machine (after they sold me
a retail copy of XP). Microsoft says that I need a bios upgrade to
take the SP2. Gateway does not have an upgrade,

Does anyone know of a way to load XP onto this machine?

Any help would be most appreciated!

TIA

-Minitman

I dare say you've already checked this out, but heres the link to Gateway
BIOS upgrades

http://support.gateway.com/support/...latform=10021&model=10027&os=10406&type=10079

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi,

With a system this old, I would listen to Gateway's advise.

For more information look here:
Windows XP Upgrade Advisor:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/upgrading/advisor.mspx

Upgrading to Windows XP:
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpupgrad.php

 

[Minitman]

Hey Bert

Thanks for the reply.

You are right, this is an old system. However, when I looked at the
microsoft link, they did not seem to list ANY bios upgrades, only
windows upgrades.

As for Gateways advice, They only give it for a price or a lot of
whining! After much whining <G> I squeezed out the fact that they
haven't a clue - Their advice was everything from "The bios is what it
is, no upgrades. You want newer bios, buy newer motherboard" (none
available for that machine) to just "No updates available".

I am trying to find an upgrade on the Intel site (the mother board is
a modified Intel BP810). Have not had a lot of success so far.

Any other ideas?

-Minitman

 

[Minitman]

Hey Martin,

Thanks for the reply.

I did not have this link. I did just now check it out and could not
find my mother board listed! But then I don't know what the Gateway
number is for this board :^<

Seem that Gateway took an Intel BP810 and modifier it for this Profile
2 machine. As I mentioned in my last reply (to Bert), I am attempting
to track down this elusive upgrade from the Intel site. I will post
the results when they are in.

-Minitman

 

[Michael Stevens]

Greetings,

I have a Gateway Profile 500 CX (Otherwise known as a Profile 2, the
all-in-one machine circa 1998). I am trying to install XP and it will
not allow me to complete installation.

It gets as far as loading the drivers and than the screen goes blank.
The hard drive is still making noise at this point but after a while
even it stops. I pull the plug (the switch in front has never worked)
and replug. It starts the install all over and bombs at the same
place.

Gateway says XP cannot be loaded onto that machine (after they sold me
a retail copy of XP). Microsoft says that I need a bios upgrade to
take the SP2. Gateway does not have an upgrade,

Does anyone know of a way to load XP onto this machine?

Any help would be most appreciated!

TIA

-Minitman

For the cost of the upgrading your old Gateway, you could almost purchase a
much more powerful system with XP preinstalled with XP compatible hardware
and software.
The upgrading of your old system will need much more than XP. You will need
more memory, hard drive space, software upgrades, etc. etc. etc. and in the
end you will have an old system with
XP that runs much slower and does much less than then entry level system you
could have for about the same cash.
--
Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
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http://michaelstevenstech.com
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