XP Installation

[pangburn]

This one is driving me crazy:

After experiencing some problems with an HP Pavillion 750n the decision was made to do a clean install of WinXP Pro. unfortuneatly, I haven't been able to get this OS to fully install. At some point during the hardware installation i get a hard error( sorry for not having the code in front of me). I know that all hardware is working properly becacuse i can load and run Win98SE with no problems what so ever.
This particular box came loaded from the factory with WinXP Home Edition so i'm confident that the hardware within meets all specs for the OS.
Similarly, in an attempt to work around the issue I tried to load a set of recovery Cd's from another machine. As one would guess that didn't work either. In this case i went to reboot and I get a blue screen that says to run chkdsk/f and to make sure the hard drive is connected. I think this has to do with the wrong hard drive information being installed.
Can anyone save me from buying these stupid recovery discs?

 

[intelwizrd]

I would recomend opening up the box, remove all extra pci cards (sound, nic, modem) and disconnect any extra hard drives. reseat all of the ram and ide cables. try the clean install again. If it wont install like that then there could be a ploblem with what is left. usualy problems when installing on a barebones system involve ram or a bad sector on a harddrive, in my experience anyway. I would say that it is a driver issue, but if it was preloaded with xp home then it should work. hope that helps.

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Josh
CCNA, MCSE 2003(in progress)

 

[pangburn]

I'll give it a try. It was my thought too that a driver was causing the problem but i figured coming up in safe is essentially the same as getting rid of all the extra PCI devices.....When i loaded that other machines recovery disk i tried to come up in safe mode and it still wouldn't come up
In any case, i'll strip this thing down and we'll see what happens
thanks

 

[intelwizrd]

Well if it is a driver problem, then safe mode would help you out. If it is a hardware problem, there could be irq conflicts, bad memory locations in the ram or something else of the like. It usualy ends up being one of those if you get problems when performing a clean install.

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Josh
CCNA, MCSE 2003(in progress)

 

[pangburn]

I was able to pull out the modem and usb controller but i'm not exactly sure how to disable intergrated components. Appearently the mother board has audio and video intergrated. I didn't see anything in the bios to disable the audio....any ideas?