Hello everyone!  I'm trying to install windows xp pro on a compaq
presario exms on at pc here at work.  The pc is @ 1year old and although it
isn't a fireball it isn't a slow pc either and should squeak under the
minimum requirements.  It has p3 667mhz cpu, 64mb ram, 9gb hd, 4mb svga
video card, etc.  I originally had it setup so that it was dual booting
win2k and win98, this worked fine.  I got a copy of winxp pro so I decided
to try it out.  The installation process works fine, looks like it jumps
through all the necessary hoops, ie. network config, joining the existing nt
domain, etc. The install time takes @ 1 hour, when it finally reboots, I see
the winxp splash screen which shows me that the installation was successful,
looks like it's booting up and then the displays blacks out and nothing.  I
reboot several times and nothing changes, same response, winxp splash screen
and then blacks out.  It's not a monitor problem because I hooked it up to
another pc and it works fine.  I can see hd activity when I hit random keys,
the esc key, etc. but no display.  I have run the install process 3 times
from scratch, each time formatting the hd using the fat32 file system.  Does
anyone out there think that using the ntfs file system during the next
install would produce better results?  Or is this possibly a situation where
windows xp doesn't have the correct driver for the video card installed in
this pc? Has anyone seen or experienced anything similar to this?  Let me
know what you think.  Thanks for the advice.
        rob,wpg
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