the case the drivers have been installed for the hardware. It is
sounding more and more like there is a problem with the hardware itself.
I have experienced a similar behavior with a laptop of mine that would
fairly consistently freeze between hardware identification and component
registration. It was the hard drive, and the thing which was pissy
about it was that the drive operated near normally so detecting the
problem was difficult.
I would doubt the likelihood of a virus etc causing this behavior. But
I guess you could try unplugging it from the network and see if it can
make it through the install. Might be time to cut your loses...and get
it replaced if under warranty. :-(
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 6:04 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Weird PC Error - Part II
I don't know if this has anything to do with it or not, but on one
machine that
I installed XP PRo on, it got to the same point and "seemed to hang"
But I went
to lunch and came back, and found that it had made it past the hang up
point and
went ahead and completed the installation. The problem is with specific
drivers, especially the correct video driver. But usually after a
looong wait
time, it will install a default driver, and allow you to update the
driver after
the installation completes.
Once that is done there is about 40 or so updates to install, and there
is a
danger if getting an infection from Blaster/welchia during that process.
I recommend installing an updated A/V program before exposing the
machine to the
internet for the updates. What I do now is to download all the updates
on
another machine, burn them to CDROM and then apply them before
connecting to the
internet.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "ColdFusion Developer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 7:36 PM
Subject: RE: Weird PC Error - Part II
| It is after the Installation of the devices
| and right after it asked for the keyboard language,
| machine name, as well as the Product Key.
|
| Reminder.. This is a LEGAL fully purchased copy
| of Windows XP.
|
|
|
|
| ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
| From: "John Munyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:24:21 -0800
|
| >At what point does it bomb? When I have seen machines just 'freeze'
it
| >has been either the memory as someone mentioned or the hard drive, or
| >the drivers associated with the disk subsystem. Is in doing
installing
| >components, or is it in gui plug and play detection? If it is in the
| >gui mode detecting hardware it I would think that perhaps there is a
| >hand detecting a piece of hardware it such as the disk controller
etc.
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >-----Original Message-----
| >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| >Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 3:46 PM
| >To: CF-Talk
| >Subject: Weird PC Error - Part II
| >
| >
| >
| >Well I updated the BIOS and began the reformat process.
| >Formatted with NTFS and then loaded Windows XP back onto the system
| >
| >Yet with the same results, the machine still locks up around 25-26
| >minutes.
| >
| >I can hold the power switch and then when it restarts it will attempt
| >to continue with the installation process but bombs out each time
| >virtually at the same spot.
| >
| >ANy other ideas before I toss the thing out the window???
| >
| >
| >
| >
|
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