while working in college... the approach that always seemed to work was the
following:
If you have more than one memory chip installed, remove them and leave one
in the 0 or 1 bank, whichever is first.
Remove all other PCI/ISA cards... (network card, sound card, controller
cards, DVD decoder cards, etc.. take them all out).
Try installing XP at this point. If all goes well, add your hardware back to
the machine one by one, rebooting in between. You might discover the piece
that was giving you a problem. If this approach does not work, the next step
is to disconnect all drives so that only the CD-ROM and Hard drive are
attached. If this works, install your other pieces one by one and you should
find the culprit piece. If that approach fails as well you are getting down
to the nitty gritty here... check the BIOS and make sure you have the latest
"flash" which you can get from the manufacturers website. Check connections,
reset BIOS to defaults, try exchanging the video card out for a basic one.
If that fails too, you are SOL. :-)
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: ColdFusion Developer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 8:34 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Weird PC Error - Part II
I have ran a Hard Drive diagnostics test utility and the Quick
Test came back just fine. The Advanced test is almost done and does
not seem to be anything wrong there either.
So now I am a bigger loss as to why i can not install Windows
XP without the machine locking up.
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "ColdFusion Developer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:59:22 -0500
>unable to do that since there is only the one strip
>
>
>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:03:02 -0500
>
>>> ANy other ideas before I toss the thing out the window???
>>
>>You might try removing some of the memory, if possible. Sometimes, memory
>>chip defects manifest themselves in odd ways.
>>
>>Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
>>http://www.figleaf.com/
>>voice: (202) 797-5496
>>fax: (202) 797-5444
>>
>>
>
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