Wally
10-14-2005, 06:10 AM
I've just built a A64 rig, all hooked up and POSTing, but for some stupid reason WinXP refuses to install. I've tried Home and two different Pro discs.
What i mean is:
1: in BIOS, i select CD drive as primary boot device, save, whack CD in and restart
2: Comp POSTs, boots form CD, and asks me to select a partition to install to. I select a partition, it formats the partition, and then does the ol' "copying files to C:\WINDOWS" like system32.dll etc.
3: it finishes this, prompts me to remove any devices from the floppy drive, then restarts, saying Installation will be completed after reboot.
4: Reboots, boots from CD again, and tries to get me to repeat steps 1-3. it does this indefinitely.
I took the remove floppy device to mean the XP disc i booted from, but when i do this it just hangs, giving me "booting from CD/DVD", before moving onto nVidia boot thing (nFoce 4 board). it won't boot from HDD, even though it's all pluggered in and XP is on there. I was under the impression that at some point during XP installation you were given a GUI similar to the XP logon screen, where you entered your product key etc, as this is what ahppened on my old pc, but i can't get this far.
it's probably a really stupid and obvious problem i've just overlooked something silly, but what's going on? Please help me, this is my fist decent pc, and it's so frustrating having it sat on my desk ready to go component-wise but refusing to install XP properly.
What i mean is:
1: in BIOS, i select CD drive as primary boot device, save, whack CD in and restart
2: Comp POSTs, boots form CD, and asks me to select a partition to install to. I select a partition, it formats the partition, and then does the ol' "copying files to C:\WINDOWS" like system32.dll etc.
3: it finishes this, prompts me to remove any devices from the floppy drive, then restarts, saying Installation will be completed after reboot.
4: Reboots, boots from CD again, and tries to get me to repeat steps 1-3. it does this indefinitely.
I took the remove floppy device to mean the XP disc i booted from, but when i do this it just hangs, giving me "booting from CD/DVD", before moving onto nVidia boot thing (nFoce 4 board). it won't boot from HDD, even though it's all pluggered in and XP is on there. I was under the impression that at some point during XP installation you were given a GUI similar to the XP logon screen, where you entered your product key etc, as this is what ahppened on my old pc, but i can't get this far.
it's probably a really stupid and obvious problem i've just overlooked something silly, but what's going on? Please help me, this is my fist decent pc, and it's so frustrating having it sat on my desk ready to go component-wise but refusing to install XP properly.