Hello Daniel,

Saturday, July 06, 2002, 8:55:52 PM, you wrote:

DW> i have just purchased a new motherboard new memory ddr 512 and a new processor AMD 1800.  I removed my hard drive from my old machine AMD 450 and connected with all my various cards(i.e modem
DW> sound) to the new machine when i tried to boot in to windows i received an error message telling me to run fdisk on my HD.  I decided the best action was to re-format my drive and to re-install
DW> XP or even 98.  I did this and removed the 4 partitions which i had on my oldmachine.  The first thing i noticed was that although my HD is 44gig it does not pick it up and only the 34 gig which
DW> i have been running on with my previous systm(this was due to the motherboard not handling more than 34gig).   I then after fdisk formated my drive with a /s option. i then proceded to install XP
DW> with the auto installation and the machine locked up.  so i put back in the boot disk and tried to go back to dos the machine promted me for what wether i wanted CD support which i selected and
DW> the machine locked..... I can not seem to install xp and can not get to dos i have made a new dos disk which also locks the machine, or is it just taking for ever im not sure.

DW> Does anyone have any advice please....

DW> thansk in advance.

It looks like hardware problem. Try to load with the DOS win/xx floppy.
If PC hung, then remove all hardware from the case (HDD, CD, LAN,
Audio,...) and try again.



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