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Old June 16th, 2003, 05:22 PM
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xp installation
hello guys

i need to install xp, but won't work; it starts, but stops after the first steps. the screen stills black for hours, with blinking cursor. i have geforce 2 mx 100/200, duron 700, 20 mb hd, mobo abit kt7a non-raid. any hypoteses?

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u have an abit mobo too? most people that have xp installation errors have abit mobos.
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yes john, i've readed that in particular abit kt7a, the one i have, gives that peculiar problem, but no one gives any further details on how to get rid of it (neither abit site gives any hints). someone says it is also a problem of graphic card, in particular the geforce 2; people say to substitute it with another type of card during installation, but i dunno how much this is important, because a month ago i already formatted again my pc, already with the same current hardware config, and i didn't get such problems.
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The people I have heard of having troubles with this issue solved it by flashing thier BIOS w/ the latest version from Abit.
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the problem is that i already flashed the bios once, six months ago, when i installed xp the first time!
could bios get erased after few months? is it "involuted"?
i must format because a virus (w32/jeefo) passed under norton (nay, it DESTROYED the antivirus! along many other exes, included the windows unistaller); maybe that is the cause of bios "involution"? i guess not.
some people says it is a problem of video card, geforce in particular, because xp doesn't like it, nevertheless paired with a abit mobo. though, when i installed xp last time, a month ago, i had geforce put onboard, and the installation proceeded neatly like oil. now, what has happened?
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Now, I'm assuming you have formatted and whatnot? So as to start on a fresh slate?
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fresh "slate"?
sorry i don't understand well; i'm foreigner. please explain better.
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Oh, sorry. Well, I would just make sure that everything was off the drive, and just to be safe would flash the BIOS again.
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solved; i used another videocard, and i formatted. it was the pair geforce/abit which empeached xp.
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