I was an WindowsXP technical beta tester and discovered that XP would
fail during installation with some Geforce2 cards in some Athlon boards.
Replace the video card with another type and XP will install - then put
the GeForce 2 back in and it will be recognized and have no problems.
Most motherboard manufacturers have released updated BIOS to address
this issue.

Kathy

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Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 1:00 PM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] Windows XP installation failure


I obtained a copy of Windows XP Professional.

When beginning to run Windows XP setup, everything is fine until it
reboots the PC to start the rest of the setup process. After the first
reboot, hell breaks loose:

There is a pause then I see the Windows XP logo screen very briefly,
then the screen goes black and just stays there!!!!!! I do not have any
hardware that is known to be incompatible with Windows XP.

My PC system specs:
AMD Athlon 900 mhz, 256MB PC133/100 SDRAM,
Jaton 3D Force 2 MX 32 (GeForce 2 MX 200 with 32 MB SDRAM), SoundBlaster
Audio PCI (CT5880), Soyo SY-K7VTA-B motherboard, Maxtor 13 GB 7,200 RPM
UDMA 66 IDE HDD, Fujitsu 4 GB UDMA 33 HDD (D:), and 40x CD-ROM drive.
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---Randy J. Anderson---

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