Grake Posted July 10, 2005 Posted July 10, 2005 Well I just bought a brand new computer that works wonders. P4, 3.2 ghz, 1gb ram, blah blah all the good stuff. And I made a nice unattended xp cd with sp2 slipstramed and I try to install it on the new computer, it won't install. Meaning i put in the cd, it formated using ntfs, then copies the files over and all, and it restarts to do the installation. But right after it restarts it freezes at the loading screen where the blue bar that runs horizontal. It freezes there and stays there forever.It also does the same thing when I install Xp without sp2, then i install sp2 to manually, it also freezes at the same screen when it restarts.so just the normal XP cd works fineXP cd slipstreamed with SP1 works fine and dandyXP cd with sp2 slip stramed or installed manually freezes.Anyone have any ideas?Thanks.
Noise Posted July 10, 2005 Posted July 10, 2005 New Motherboard?Did you flash the BIOS to the latest version?
tarquel Posted July 10, 2005 Posted July 10, 2005 When you say you bought a new computer, are you refering to buying one from a shop or something, that comes with xp preinstalled?If so, was XP sp2 running on it when you got it? If so, then you may have missed out the following hotfix:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=enAs Nois3 says, a BIOS flash to the latest version may be on the cards too, but like I said, if sp2 was already on it when you got it (i'd have thought by now, all pc's should come with sp2 on them) then its probably this hofix you may have missed out.Regards and let us know how you get on.Nath
Grake Posted July 10, 2005 Author Posted July 10, 2005 no it was put together by hand by parts. But I believe Nois3 hit it on the spot. I may need to update the motherboard bios lol. Cause the first motherboard burnt out, and it was replaced with another but the same model. ok thanx guys , i'll update it and will let you know.
tarquel Posted July 10, 2005 Posted July 10, 2005 righty-ho - just remember to have that hotfix in you UA cd as well - it does no harm, even if u installed the UA cd on a AMD-based systemCheersN.
Grake Posted July 10, 2005 Author Posted July 10, 2005 ok updated the biosinstalled the hotfixand it did it Thnx a lot guys, glad i came here lol. Been trying to fix it for a month or so now, giving up from time to time
tarquel Posted July 11, 2005 Posted July 11, 2005 If you did both at the same time, then it could be either that solved it for you but as its solved - no worries lolN.
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