Lol, Glad you found it! I never tried to do a XP install with a USB stick in that caused it to lock up like that, but I laughed when I read that, I could imagine the serious DOH! moment hehehe.
I know your pain lol, I spent 4 hours once beating the heck out of a unbootable machine with a "NTLDR is Missing Press any key to restart..." error that turned out to be a micro SDCard in the build in 9in1 card reader, rebuilding a perfectly good machine is never fun. Garrett VE6RKY --- In [email protected], Scott Miller <sc...@...> wrote: > > I got it. You'll never guess what it was. > > I was able to wipe the partition with a Gentoo rescue CD and format it > NTFS, but it still hung every time. I finally pulled the drive and put > it in another computer and installed XP just fine. Put it back in the > new machine and it wouldn't boot. Black screen, no errors or anything. > > At some point, while playing with the boot menu, I thought to myself > "what's this Sigmatel MSCN?" I'd assumed the third boot option was the > network, but I'd disabled that. Turns out it was the stupid little > Taiwanese MP3 player I use to play back recorded traffic on the HP > 8920A. I'd plugged it in to the USB hub to charge and forgot about it > under the clutter of my workbench. > > Unplugged the MP3 player (which was showing up as a mass storage device > and apparently misbehaving) and everything's fine. Except, you know, > for another 12 hours of reinstalling software, finding XP drivers, and > messing with software licenses. > > Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. > > Scott >
