I have tried both setup ways, one installing from Windows 2000 and the other booting from CD.
If I try installing from Windows 2000 Pro, it copies the files and then reboots and enters the setup via the menu item on the boot loader, after the Windows XP logo comes up with the animated line box, the screen goes balnk and thats it, i've left it for 4 and a half hours and it's still there, no keyboard, no harddrive light, the machine has locked.
If I boot it with the CD, It gets to the blue screen where it's loading device drivers, gets to "Starting Windows Setup" and locks again.
I have taken out the RAM and tried different RAM, removed all PCI cards, and disconnected the other CDROM, but still the same results.
Any info would be great,
Might be a good idea to take down your overclocked CPU while you install. This might be the problem.
/Fjodor
:( no matter how much you right to give you people the best serario you always forget to mention one thing,
I have also tried putting the clock back to 800MHz but still no luck.
Could be your hdd. If you do not have any info you care about, try do low lvl format and install xp on clean box.
Unfurtunally a very, very true statement :)
Can you try installing from another CD?
Allso (you've probably done this but...) check that your BIOS settings are correct and up to date. Sometimes 'old' BIOS;es can give you trouble when installing new systems.
//Fjodor
Will try,
you said a different CD, do you mean media or drive?
I meant media.
If you've got a backup copy (or something ;) ) it might be something wrong with it.
But, scince you mentioned CD rom, I read your original post again and I see that you hadn't tried disconnecting the CDrom you are trying to install from. So, one option would be to either try a different CDrom (having no other things connected except HD, graphicscard and CDrom of course) OR you could try to copy the CD to the HD, rip out ALL CDroms and install from the HD. (Booting with an old Windows 95/98 bootdisk to get to the C:\)
Oh, and copy from the CD from Windows if possible, if you have uninstalled Windows you need xcopy, ordinary copy won't work.
If you are dealing with a copy, it is more likely the media that's the problem, then the actual CDrom hardware though.
Capones idea was better then mine though... the HD is allso a likely point of error.
//Fjodor
I am having the same problem, let me know if it gets solved- i haved tried different configurations for about 12 hours now, I have installed win xp pro on numerous systems with no problems.
I informed my friend on what to do and the deleting the partion didn't help, however after flashing a new bios to the graphics card it started to work, The motherboard already had the newest firmware on so it must have been the Abit G-Force MX400 that was holding it back.
Thanks everyone for your input
IT Was the Video Card...
I could not flash the bios on the card because it is a extasy nvidia card, but i removed it and put my old voodoo card in, installed xp perfectly, then put the nvidia card back in and it works
thanks too all
Also forgot to say that it was a mixture of the Graphics card and Motherboard (ATA Controller)
Abit KT7A (HiPiont controller)
Abit MX400 G-Force
He found out you have to get a driver and put it on Floppy, when the NT setup starts select F6 (Extra Storage Controller ......) and piont it to hte floppy, this includes a version of the Hi Piont Drivers that'll help XP get installed, and run obviously.
Good Luck
My installation attempts of XP have been the same as ther other people on this thread and I also have an NVIDIA video card. My board however, is a BioStar M7VKD and my video card is a STB Velocity 4400 PCI 16MB w/tv out(TNT). I'm not sure what I need to do to correct this problem. I did update my bios already and that didn't seem to work. It is hard to get support for my video card because STB was owned by 3dfx which was purchased by nvidia. I'm sure that I'm not the only one with this problem, so there is probably a work around. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
THANKS!
Ok, this is an old thread, so I don't know if anyone is gonna reply, but...
I'm also having problems installing Windows XP Pro. I have:
A-Bit KT7A motherboard (set to optimised defaults)
AMD Athlon 850 CPU
Matrox G450 Grpahics card
Everything appears to have the latest bios, but installation won't get past the initial "Starting Windows..." text screen. It very briefly shows the disk partitioning screen, but then drops out to blue screen with "IRQL... NOT LESS OR EQUAL THAN" errors. I have disconnected EVERYTHING else (excluding CD & HD), and have even tried switching COMS 1 & 2 & LPT1 off in the bios to free up more IRQs. Windows 98 goes on fine, but XP really doesn't like it.
Any ideas?! Thanks!
Ok, this is an old thread, so I don't know if anyone is gonna reply, but...
why dont you just make a new thread? Wouldn't that be an idea? :rolleyes:
Like I said above marmite you have to get the motherboards IDE controller drivers onto a floppy disk, and then press the F6 on the setup screen,
Make sure that the divers include a OEMTEXT.INF or something like that.
Let me know if you can't find the drivers and i'll send them on.
pgudge
these abit mobos arent that great for installing xp i guess haha
Well, I've had a good hunt around on the Abit site, and I can't find the drivers you are talking about, so it would be great if you could send me them:
martin(at)designpartners.ie
I've also now tried disconnecting my hard drives and booting from the CD, and disconnecting the CD and booting from the HD. Oh, and I've swapped graphics cards too... still the same "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" message.
This thing is really bugging me now, so please save my sanity!!
pgudge,
thought you might be interested to know that I've solved the problem I was having - the CPU was running somewhat "hot", idling at around 88C!!!! So Windows was doing me a big favour in shutting down so quickly! Anyway, I efficiently cooled the machine (window open, cold draught, and powerful desk fan) and everything ran fine! If a little impracticle!
So my solution is a better heatsink and fan.
Thanks for all your advice,
marmite:cool:
Nice one,
It is far easier when you have laods of bits (hardware) to test the machine with, incase something you have is dead or faulty.
One other good way now, I had a new Abit board, forget the model, and when you went into windows the text "Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to login" was like in font -4 :) it was very small, once logged in everything loaded ok, the only two errors were that ICQ would not log on the net, and Adobe PDF Viewer was all garbage, Explorer ran fine, games ran fine, also open IE and it would crash instantly.
So onto the new method, I downloaded a copy of konoppics (spelling) its a Full Linux distrobution on one CD and it boots a runs off the CD, so just put the cd is and see if your system works perfectly, if it does, then theres no supprise it's Windows. But if that fails or bugs out, you got a hardware problem.
Eventually I found out that a corner of the AMD CPU had been chipped off, obviously by the Heat Sink. Amazing that the swine still ran :D
Nice to c i aint the only one who has problems with xp.
I too have an Abit kt7 mainboard. but tht was not the problem.
thought it was but it wasn't, oh no, i spent 2 weeks trying everthing from swapping hdrives, cd drives, cables flashing the bios etc....
The problem a bad memory stick!!!! took out all memory modules and tried installing xp with each module and gues wot? the last stick didnt work!