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were you supposed to remove the cd at that time? before she rebooted?
were you supposed to remove the cd at that time? before she rebooted?
Trouble installing Windows XP Pro
I have been having some trouble installing Windows XP Professional edition. I posted in another thread about this, but Geek Girl said it would be best to start a new one to get the help I needed. Basically, I went to install Windows XP Pro on my new computer (the hard drive was blank), and everything went fine. I partitioned the drive, and installed the OS. It came to the screen where it said "setup will continue after system restart, restarting in X seconds" where X was counting down from 15. After my computer restarted, it didn't load Windows! It just brought me back to the CD and asked me if I wanted to install it again. I checked the order that my drives boot in, and hard disk is set to boot before cd, so I can't figure out what the problem is. I'm running on GA-K8N Pro-SLI Nforce 4 motherboard, with an athlon 64 X2 4200+ cpu.
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If you are running a SATA hard drive,did you load the drivers from a floppy
when you installed windows?
Some motherboards require you to set the boot device to SCSI to
boot from a SATA hard drive.
If it is a SATA hard drive,make sure it is on SATA channel 1.
when you installed windows?
Some motherboards require you to set the boot device to SCSI to
boot from a SATA hard drive.
If it is a SATA hard drive,make sure it is on SATA channel 1.
Tried that
I did this twice, once with the cd still in there, and then once with the cd out of the drive. If I reboot with the cd in the drive it just brings me back to that setup screen. If I do it without the cd in the drive it goes to something called NVIDIA Boot Agent 201.0462. The computer sits for a bit and then it says
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting NVIDIA Boot Agent
After that it sits there with a blinking cursor. I am running on a GA-K8N Pro-SLI mobo, made by Gigabyte technologies. I'm really at a loss here, do you think it could be the cd?
I did this twice, once with the cd still in there, and then once with the cd out of the drive. If I reboot with the cd in the drive it just brings me back to that setup screen. If I do it without the cd in the drive it goes to something called NVIDIA Boot Agent 201.0462. The computer sits for a bit and then it says
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting NVIDIA Boot Agent
After that it sits there with a blinking cursor. I am running on a GA-K8N Pro-SLI mobo, made by Gigabyte technologies. I'm really at a loss here, do you think it could be the cd?
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