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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Setup and Deployment / April 2007Clean install Hangs Past 34 Minutes
Hi Folks! I always have trouble with installing a new OS -- I would be so surprised if I didn't hit a glitch somewhere. I hope you wouldn't mind seeing if you might have some ideas that would help. Thanks. System: Tyan Trinity AT100 Soket 7 Motherboard 128 MB RAM AMD K6-2 450MhZ CPU ATI Rage Video Card 10 GB WD Hard Drive I was running W98 on this, but I checked the Windows XP System Requirements, and it seems that there's plenty of capacity to run XP, so I bought an OEM disk. After the text setup is done and the computer reboots into GUI mode, I've gotten as far as Region and Langauage settings, entered the Product Key, and gone up to about 31 minutes remaining. The monitor shut down and started up a few times, so I tried a different video card. I deleted the partition, reformatted, and installed all over again. Same problem with a different video card. I've got the motherboard stripped to only the video card, and I've turned off all USB settings in my BIOS. I can't beleieve that it has trouble with two different video cards . . . but that's just the kind of thing that always seems to happen to me. Any ideas? Thanks very much, Jimmy > Hi Folks! > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > Jimmy You won't like the answer but bad spot on the oem install cd? Do a memtest overnight and an overnight test of the hd surface, then get back with results. M$ system requirements are the bare minimum and with them performance sucks. You should have at least 512M ram for XP. Come to think of it, with that list of hardware, XP performace will suck anyway and you'll hate it. later.... Tests wont help that problem(s),purchase more memory ram,512mb is about min.Also,10GB hd,that wont cut it,even at 10 (mfg lists) you really only have 9GB to 9.5GB,+ windows use more than 2 or 3,+ page file,++++.Purchase another hard drive,100GB hd sell for under 50.00.Then use the existing one for storage and other "page file".. > Hi Folks! > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > Jimmy Hi Jimmy RAM is the issue, according to my knowledge MS minimum spec always was at least 256MB of RAM and a 233MHz CPU and a 10GB HDD. This given config will work, but it will frustrate you very quickly. Thus the suggestions given is great. Remember RAM is cheaper than CPU, if possible you should increase the speed of the CPU to at least 1GHz if you will only be using 512MB or less RAM. If the Mother Board cannot handle SATA drives, any IDE disk @ 20GB or higher should serve you fine for a while. Regards > Tests wont help that problem(s),purchase more memory ram,512mb is about > min.Also,10GB hd,that wont cut it,even at 10 (mfg lists) you really only have [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > > > > Jimmy Johan Olivier schrieb: > Hi Jimmy > RAM is the issue, according to my knowledge MS minimum spec always was at > least 256MB of RAM No, XP will install and run with 128MB. It'll be slow, but thats not the question here. Believe it or not, even Windows 2003 Server will install and run with only 128MB RAM... Why should he invest in an upgrade just because Windows doesn't install and won't install aferwards anyway because the problem is something else? There is an MS KB article re install hangs at 34 minutes > Hi Folks! > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > Jimmy > There is an MS KB article re install hangs at 34 minutes > [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > > > Jimmy I appreciate all the feedback. It seems the concensus is not enough RAM. I'll start there. Although I'm also thinking about sending it back just to show them that you can't sell something that advertises it will work yet not tell you how poorly it will work on or near the minimum requirements. That's deceptive. I'm sure my credit card company would back me up on this. Then I'll spend another $100 and get a new barebone system. So thanks again for all your ideas. You guys have been great. Jimmy |
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