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Was installing XP on new 80 Gb HD when just at the very end of the installation process the screen went blank and the computer was dead.
Able to boot after this but only in safe mode.
Reproduced this behaviour by using another old HD I had lying around.
Initial investigation suggests the problem is associated with my Radeon 9800 graphics card.
Wondering what approach I can take to get XP to work. Looked at downloading ATI Radeon 9800 installation program but have problems firing it up in safe mode.
The hardware I am using has another boot disk that I installed Ubuntu Linux on to and it starts up Ubuntu without a glitch.
Should I be looking at using Vista instead of XP - would that be more likely to install successfully?
Thanks,
David
Was installing XP on new 80 Gb HD when just at the very end of the installation process the screen went blank and the computer was dead.
Able to boot after this but only in safe mode.
Reproduced this behaviour by using another old HD I had lying around.
Initial investigation suggests the problem is associated with my Radeon 9800 graphics card.
Wondering what approach I can take to get XP to work. Looked at downloading ATI Radeon 9800 installation program but have problems firing it up in safe mode.
The hardware I am using has another boot disk that I installed Ubuntu Linux on to and it starts up Ubuntu without a glitch.
Should I be looking at using Vista instead of XP - would that be more likely to install successfully?
Thanks,
David