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Date: | Mon, 8 Jul 2002 13:14:04 +0300 |
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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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Yakymakha
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