hey speedo rememeber this post a week or so ago. http://www.techsupportforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=7785&forumid=10
i unplugged all the PCI cards before doing the install and disconnected all other drives before the install so i just had CDROM and the new HD on the same IDE cable.
well i did everything you said and it still freezes up on the boot screen. I loaded XP with a full NTFS install on the new HD i bought and it worked ok for a few days but every now and then it would still freeze up sometimes on the blue bar screen.
I also reseted the CMOS
Well after those few days i figured that it couldnt really be anything else other than maybe a bad XP disk. SO i went out and got another one tried to install it the same exact way and the blue bar boot screen freezes worse than before!
Everything on this thing is pretty much new now except for the Mother board...Is there any possibilty this is the problem?
Do you have any other suggestions???the only thing i havent tried is the boot disk. What exactly does the boot disk do. I now know that i dont need ME to work with this computer i just cant get it to boot right..WHen it does get up and running XP works great...
this is my current specs
Intel pentium III
933mhz
In(R) 82810E graphics controller
Windows XP pro SP-1
256 MB RAM
Maxtor 40GB HD
ps feel free to email me or pm me...thanks
i unplugged all the PCI cards before doing the install and disconnected all other drives before the install so i just had CDROM and the new HD on the same IDE cable.
well i did everything you said and it still freezes up on the boot screen. I loaded XP with a full NTFS install on the new HD i bought and it worked ok for a few days but every now and then it would still freeze up sometimes on the blue bar screen.
I also reseted the CMOS
Well after those few days i figured that it couldnt really be anything else other than maybe a bad XP disk. SO i went out and got another one tried to install it the same exact way and the blue bar boot screen freezes worse than before!
Everything on this thing is pretty much new now except for the Mother board...Is there any possibilty this is the problem?
Do you have any other suggestions???the only thing i havent tried is the boot disk. What exactly does the boot disk do. I now know that i dont need ME to work with this computer i just cant get it to boot right..WHen it does get up and running XP works great...
this is my current specs
Intel pentium III
933mhz
In(R) 82810E graphics controller
Windows XP pro SP-1
256 MB RAM
Maxtor 40GB HD
ps feel free to email me or pm me...thanks