I have a good feeling what the problem is.  it sounds to me, that XP is
trying to install build-in promise driver, but XP couldn't get it right (and
your HDD is runnig on it, so XP won't get pass it). XP almost always get
RAID driver wrong (the only RAID card I know that XP has working driver is
adaptec 2400a).

I'd recommend a clear install of XP. You can do it from upgrade CD as long
as you own a legal copy of win2k. before you start XP, you need to make a
driver floppy for the RAID controller, you can download the latest from MSI.
at the very first screen after boot (from XP CD), you should see the message
"Press F6 to if you want to install 3rd party storage driver", press F6 and
wait for on screen instructions.  During installation, XP will ask you
insert win2k CD to verify that you own a copy of legal OS to upgrade.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Tanenbaum" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:27 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Failure to upgrade to XP Pro from 2000 Pro


> I have failed in my attempt to upgrade from Windows 2000 Professional to
XP professional because of an apparent hardware conflict. Following the
'Failed Installation to Protect the Computer' message's advice, I disabled
all cache'ing and shadowing and ran the installation in 'safe' mode. Now the
machine just freezes after the opening Windows' logo, although it does get
to the third or fourth blip in the progress monitor window before it goes
dead. There doesn't seem to be any disk activity.
>
> The CPU is an AMD Athlon XP 1600. There are 256 megabytes of memory. The
motherboard, made by MSI, features a Promise Fasttrak 100 Raid controller.
The XP installation recognises the XP driver for the RAID controller.

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