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Thread ID: 58649	2005-06-07 23:08:00	My Dream Machine doesn't like Window XP	ahd8888 (184)	Press F1

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361999	2006-05-12 12:20:00	Just a kind suggestion... paraphrase all that - I for one find it too onerous to read. And using paragraphs would help too.	Greg (193)
362000	2006-05-12 16:30:00	ok I don't know exactly what your looking for, but I'll try. I started off with a dell 8200 and I have been having some problems with it. One day it restarted randomly, which it does a lot, and when I went to start up windows again, it would just restart during the windows loading screen. I decided that this 5 year old computer was old enough to merit replacement, so I bought the following parts. asus P5LD2 mother board asus radion pci express 256 mb video card (Im not at home otherwise I could give you the full name) ocz 1gb 667 pc 5400 ddr2 ram, gold aspire or antec? case with a 420 watt supply intel pentium 4 64 bit processor with 800 mghz fsb, 2mb l2 cache, at 3.2 ghz after installing all this with the two hard drives, two cd drives, floppy drive, sound card, and network card from my dell, I also added two hard drives from my old ibm (it never stopped working, I just replaced it because it was so old) and two cd drives with one floppy drive from that computer too. After installing all this, I went to start up windows and it had the same problem, so I decided to reinstall windows. While reinstalling windows, resulted in no luck either. Once it loads all the files from the cd onto the drive, it gives me the stop error : stop: 0x0000007B (0xF7C8263C, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000). Since getting that error, I have tried; using all four drives as the primary drive idividually, with no other drives plugged in. I have found that the 40 gb western digital drive does not register while looking in dos, so its safe to say that drive is most likely dead. I have had horrible luck with WD drives, so Im not surprised. I have tried multiple cd drives, with no avail aswell. I have no idea what it could be, as the problem seemed to have occured with two almost completely different set ups.	tstkl (8303)
362001	2006-05-12 20:44:00	Use 1 hard drive and 1 CD to start with. Make sure the hard drive has been formatted. When you boot off the Windows CD once its found the drive you can delete the aprtitions(s) here and reformat. Did you do that?	pctek (84)
362002	2006-05-13 00:21:00	Have you looked at support.microsoft.com ?	Agent_24 (57)
362003	2006-05-14 00:02:00	Use 1 hard drive and 1 CD to start with. Make sure the hard drive has been formatted. When you boot off the Windows CD once its found the drive you can delete the aprtitions(s) here and reformat. Did you do that? I tried all 4 drives idividually with one cd drive at a time. Same problem every time. I even eliminated the chance of it being the hard drive all together. I tried knoppix (a linux based opperating system that runs off the cd, so no hard drive is needed at all.) and still had the problem. I *THINK* it has come down to the ram, but I don't know. and yes I have looked at the microsoft site for what the reasons the error code is displayed and how to fix it. I read it word for word the other day and it still didn't do any good. Hopefully my friend will have time to bring over some ram so we can try a different stick and see if that will work. thanks for all the help so far.	tstkl (8303)
362004	2006-05-16 03:19:00	ok so I just started up my old ibm with the 20 gb hard drive and the ibm cd reader drive, along with the dell windows install cd, since it has no operating system . Here is a list of the different cd/hard drives I have and what I will call them: western digital 80 gb hard drive (bought as slave drive for dell orignally, second "slave drive" for the dell) codename-wd 80gb maxtor 80 gb hard drive (original primary drive that came with dell) codename-max 80 gb western digital 40 gb hard drive (bought as slave drive for ibm) codename- wd 40gb maxtor 20 gb hard drive (original primary drive that came with ibm) codename- max 20gb as for the cd drives, there was one cd reader and one cd writer per computer (dell/ibm) so there is the ibm cd reader, ibm cd writer, dell cd reader, dell cd writer, and there is one floppy from each computer . right now I have the max 20gb and the ibm cd reader in the ibm and its installing windows flawlessly . Thats the one drive that was never exposed to the two 80 gb hard drives because I had it set up with the primary for the second ide cable going to the 40 gb first, then the 20 gb, and since the new computer won't register the 40gb, it didn't transfer any data or recognize the 20 gb until I reconnected it as the primary, and by then I was testing them idividually, so it never was connected while the 80 gbs were .	tstkl (8303)
362005	2006-05-26 03:04:00	I too was frustrated by this problem. I just built a machine as follows: Pentium D930 processor, ASUS P5LD2 motherboard, 1 MB Corsair RAM, WD 250 MB HD, EVGA 7600 GS video card. After trying loading drivers using F6 and moving around hardware, I came upon a simple solution. Once I switched my CD ROM to the blue IDE connector (as opposed to the red ones with the ribbon labeled "CD ROM") Windows XP Pro installed without a hitch. The red IDE connectors require RAID drivers to work and for some reason, I could not get them to load with F6. This solution is much simpler. I hope this helps.	pcbuilder (8304)
362006	2008-01-29 07:21:00	... if not step into the BIOS and configure the IDE-Typ of your optical drives to [CD-ROM] (or something like this). By default they are set to [AUTO]. The Problem is that windows XP setup thinks that your CD-ROM drives are harddisk drives (for some reason it seems it cannot determine this) and obviously you cannot install XP onto your optical drive... Good luck! Thanks! I have a new Zepto laptop, delivered without an operating system, that wouldn't start setup. An intitial attempt to install from an original "version 1" XP CD got me a blue screen, and with subsquent attempts both with the original CD and a slipstreamed, XPSP2 CD (Zepto support said that an XPSP2 CD was required for this computer), I never got past the black screen with the blinking white dash. The incorrect BIOS option on my computer is called IDE CHANGE 1 MASTER, which was set to AUTO, just like you said. Thanks again!	AcrossTheSeas (8305)
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