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| Thread ID: 86183 | 2008-01-07 07:22:00 | Can't install NT-Based OS, hangs but doesn't freeze | Agent_24 (57) | Press F1 |
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| 628165 | 2008-01-07 07:22:00 | I'm trying to install windows XP on a computer, but it doesn't like me doing so. I can boot from the CD but as soon as the setup loads, it stops at the first message "Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration" - on a black screen. It doesn't even get to the blue ones. the CD drive spins down quickly and strangely enough the keyboard still responds (num/caps/scroll locks all toggle and the lights flash, ctrl+alt+del also works so it's not fully frozen or anything) I have what I believe to be the latest BIOS for the motherboard which is a Chaintech 6ASA0 (took me a while to find that out, since chaintech wrote NOTHING on the board to identify it, not sure it's correct, some other places talked about a 6ASA M10X) I've tried without all the extra cards, drives, just a CD-ROM and a video card basically, nothing works, although I can boot ubuntu fine and also installed Win98SE fine so I don't think that the hardware is faulty. I've tried XP, Server 2003 and Windows 2000 and none of them get past that message, so I doubt it's a problem with my CDs either or anything like that |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 628166 | 2008-01-07 18:28:00 | Weird. Probably not helpful but I used to work for a place that was the importer for Chaintech. It soon became obvious that they're s***. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 628167 | 2008-01-07 18:44:00 | Nothing in the BIOS about Boot Sector virus checking or similar? This would need to be disabled. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 628168 | 2008-01-07 19:40:00 | Yeah I've tried turning the antivirus feature off, but no change. I've also tried starting XP setup from floppies, and replacing NTDETECT.COM with ntdetect.chk (renamed to com) from the support.cab on the XP CD, which comes up with some interesting stuff... I'll add links to photos in a few minutes | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 628169 | 2008-01-07 19:52:00 | Ok, here's some photos: Having never done this before, I'm not sure exactly what I should be looking at/for, or anything. But the first one www.imagef1.net.nz everything seems fine (not that I'd know, of course) except for the BIOS date, which is correct except it should say 1999 for the year... (and the clock is set to 2008) Pressing enter gets to the next screen here: www.imagef1.net.nz again, everything is probably OK, except for the bit "Checksum fails" - would this indicate a critical problem? At that 2nd screen the computer pauses, but doesn't say "press a key to continue" however, if I do press something, I get the next screen as shown here: www.imagef1.net.nz It's at this point that things start to get really interesting because while I can make things keep going by pressing keys, basically all that happens is that the numbers and messages in the red square just keep repeating, and I'm guessing this is why the installation 'hangs', it can't get past this point. The big question no doubt is why - and the other is - does anyone here know what it means? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 628170 | 2008-01-07 19:56:00 | Well the date looks wrong for a start. Is that the date in the BIOS?? Changing that might do something. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 628171 | 2008-01-07 20:08:00 | Well the date looks wrong for a start. Is that the date in the BIOS?? Changing that might do something. Like I said, the BIOS was built on 12/07/1999, but windows is saying 12/07/2019. (note, this is in American time format) The clock is set correctly, to 08/01/2008 (NZ format) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 628172 | 2008-01-07 20:18:00 | Well its not windows, because you cant even install XP. The BIOS / post screen not Windows is giving the wrong date etc. It sounds screwed to me |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 628173 | 2008-01-07 20:23:00 | Pressing F5 as the XP CD boots may allow you manually select 'Standard PC'. | BIFF (1) | ||
| 628174 | 2008-01-07 20:32:00 | Well its not windows, because you cant even install XP. The BIOS / post screen not Windows is giving the wrong date etc. It sounds screwed to me POST shows the BIOS date properly: www.imagef1.net.nz BIOS Setup has correct date/time in clock: www.imagef1.net.nz Windows setup in non-silent mode: www.imagef1.net.nz |
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