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| Thread ID: 88142 | 2008-03-16 22:03:00 | battery boot | NZHawk (4093) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 650014 | 2008-03-17 01:03:00 | Formatted the new drive started the XP install - slower than normal must have needed to reboot when I got back to it it was froze on the bios white on black boot screen. |
NZHawk (4093) | ||
| 650015 | 2008-03-17 01:05:00 | How much ram is in it?? Did you put the hdd by itself on Master, on the primary IDE connection? Did you go through the BIOS and reconfigure whatever? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 650016 | 2008-03-17 01:15:00 | How much ram is in it?? - 512 533Mhz DDR2 SDRAM Did you put the hdd by itself on Master, on the primary IDE connection? - yes Did you go through the BIOS and reconfigure whatever? - originally yes; now it doesn't get past the post far enough to choose setup |
NZHawk (4093) | ||
| 650017 | 2008-03-17 01:31:00 | Did you install the drivers? I think these are the drivers for XP (h10025.www1.hp.com) Did you use the recovery partition to reinstall XP, or did u use another XP CD? Does it show any errors on the post screen?? I think this is where its stopping I dont think you have to wait to go past the post screen, pressing F1 I think it is should get u in the BIOS |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 650018 | 2008-03-17 01:40:00 | Did you install the drivers? - I really don't think it got that far... (sorry was working on other computers at the same time) Did you use the recovery partition to reinstall XP, or did u use another XP CD? - use another XP CD Does it show any errors on the post screen?? - no errors just stops after it recognized the hdd & cd drives Bios - was able to get into the bios this time; rechecked the configuration, it does recognize the new hdd. boots from the cd then hdd boot successfully from the cd ----- watching this time. |
NZHawk (4093) | ||
| 650019 | 2008-03-17 01:54:00 | booted from the cd started the standard installation process from the cd... installing drivers etc... then it stated "Setup is starting Windows" instead it cycled back to Welcome to Windows setup. and started the installation process over from formatting....??? |
NZHawk (4093) | ||
| 650020 | 2008-03-17 03:13:00 | Have you run memtest86 on it? Sounds like it could maybe have a fault with the ram? |
bevy121 (117) | ||
| 650021 | 2008-03-17 04:10:00 | affirmative on memtest - no problems | NZHawk (4093) | ||
| 650022 | 2008-03-17 04:11:00 | If you've already installed XP, take the cd out and change the bootdisk in the BIOS to the hdd. If you leave the cd in it'll keep booting from the cd (and everytime u press a key, while the cd is in the cd), it'll take u to to the setup /install screen. You will be going round in circles FOREVER. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 650023 | 2008-03-17 04:15:00 | Yep have done this. it is still just gets to the post screen, then stops have changed the boot order in the bios to hdd 1st has booted to windows wanting to complete the installation |
NZHawk (4093) | ||
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