booting doesn't work (hardware prob??)

[jef patat]

Hi

I've tried everything but just can't fix it. If I boot from the windows
cd-rom everything goes well untill "Setup is starting windows". It won't go
any further. On an other computer everything works fine, so my cd is ok. I
thought maby a hardware prob so I removed everything but my video card, and
my cd-rom ofcource. Problem stays. A couple of months ago everything worked
fine, windows was installed and no problem. What can be the problem?
Something with my motherboard, bios maybe? I tried linux and that worked.
Why does windows keep hanging?
Thx

[Ron]

Hmmm. Jeff, what about a loose IF cable between HDD and mobo? (Don't just
wiggle it, take it off and put it back on at both ends). Also try
remove/reseat AGP card. Then, when next boot up, pop into the BIOS and set
the defaults for everything. Especially ensure all drives are set to AUTO.
And...do you use a RAID mobo? Is there any possibility that there are BIOS
settings relating to that which could be interfering? Lastly, how many RAM
modules installed? Any recent changes there? If all of these steps produce
no result, you can remove all but one stick of RAM and try it then...(this
is assuming that you have at least one stick of 64 or 128).

Back to you.
Ron

[Paul]

Also along this train of thought...I recall reading on another NG that some
people were having problems loading XP with certain Nvidia cards ( I think it
was a GF4 but I cannot recall for sure). One suggestion made at time was to
switch to a different video card, install XP and then swap back to your card you
currently have.

I never paid too much attention to that message thread until I tried to put a
new computer together for my mother-in-law. It would not load XP for anything.
I remembered this message and thought, "what the heck". I had on old PCI card
laying around the house. I tried it and voila, XP went in A.O.K. I put the AGP
card back in and it loaded the drivers like normal.

Good Luck,

Paul

"Ron" > wrote in message
...
> Hmmm. Jeff, what about a loose IF cable between HDD and mobo? (Don't just
> wiggle it, take it off and put it back on at both ends). Also try
> remove/reseat AGP card. Then, when next boot up, pop into the BIOS and set
> the defaults for everything. Especially ensure all drives are set to AUTO.
> And...do you use a RAID mobo? Is there any possibility that there are BIOS
> settings relating to that which could be interfering? Lastly, how many RAM
> modules installed? Any recent changes there? If all of these steps produce
> no result, you can remove all but one stick of RAM and try it then...(this
> is assuming that you have at least one stick of 64 or 128).
>
> Back to you.
> Ron
>
>