[Help] XP 64 install help for Oracle DBA

[phdtogo]

I'm new to the board, have been in IT for 20 years... Oracle DBA for nearly 10 years. I'm moderately literate in the Windows world and am trying to setup a test lab at home for Oracle 10g... building a system from a bare bones.

A.) Using a Pentium 4 3 GHz processor LGA 775, EMT64 capable, with the Intel D101GCC motherboard... Maxtor 100 GB DL100.. something (at work and can't remember) The bios was updated with the latest software using a DOS 3 1/2 floppy and the Intel install utility. If I don't integrate the drivers the install will proceed normally, however, when complete and rebooting, the Windows splash screen appears and then the boot process dies... screen goes blank and turns off. However, I can boot into Windows Safe mode.. which points to a driver problem.

B.) If the SATA drivers are slipstreamed into the install with Nlite, during the install process Windows will say that it cannot see a hard drive and will not get to the step where an NTFS partition is created and formatted.. even though the bios can see it and displays the info correctly as a SATA drive on SATA master 1.

C.) Same step as B), but used Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition.

D.) I used an old Dell OEM XP with SP1 and this installed fine... not a long-term option because the product key is tied to my laptop and can't be reregistered.. at any rate.. I need to test the more advanced Oracle software which requires a 64-bit capable OS.

In scenario B, are the new SATA drivers being overridded by the old XP IDE drivers during the install? Is there also a problem with the screen going blank and the boot stalling also due to the video driver (there is one provided on the same motherboard CDROM as the SATA drivers)

HELP! I'm about ready to pitch the whole mess out the window... or give up and buy an IDE drive.

Greg

[Grunth0s]

This does sound like a video driver issue.

Possibly due to the video drivers being unsigned.

Have you tried going in on safe made, and removing the video drivers?

This will force your installation to use the Standard VGA driver, and you should then be able to see stuff.

[phdtogo]

The video driver that was installed was from the Microsoft XP 64 install. I'm not installing the video driver from the Intel Motherboard, only the SATA drivers... but the motherboard may need the video driver from Intel.

Maybe I should slipstream everything from the Intel CD into the XP 64 install SW and then run the unattended install... I believe that is a way around unsigned software?

G

Edited February 23, 2006 by phdtogo