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wazzlez   09-11-2004 at 08:59:41 PM

After using linux for awhile I'm switching back to Windows for various reasons, mainly because of iTunes and InDesign. I have a legal copy of XP Home with sp1a on the disc, and a burned copy of xp pro.

With both, I boot from the CD, and it says "Inspecting System Configuration" for about 5 seconds, and then goes to a blank screen.

My comp is homebuilt, with an Athlon XP 1700+ running @ 2.2Ghz, 400Mhz bus, Abit NF7-S v2.0, Abit Siluro GeForce 4 Ti4200, a 40GB hard drive and a 200GB hard drive on the IDE bus.

Any help is greatly appriciated.

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Ned_Flanders   09-11-2004 at 10:10:11 PM
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have you tried running your PC at stock specs (no o/c) - long shot



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wazzlez   09-11-2004 at 10:58:07 PM
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yes, and I've tried resetting the BIOS. It's just plain weird.

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folken   09-12-2004 at 08:13:02 AM
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Do you have any pci devices? My machine did that when I had anything plugged into the slot that shared an irq w/ my onboard sata controller. I didn't think irq conflicts were possible anymore but when I removed the card my machine was fine.
Windows may not like the linux partitions even when you are just starting the setup. Try booting off a dos floppy or something and formatting the drive(s) from that.

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peartree   09-12-2004 at 02:15:21 PM
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Yes, it's weird. I guess that the first thing I'd do is boot from the XP CD and repartition the drives into either FAT32 or NTFS, then format them.

I'm willing to bet that this will fix it.


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_WW_   09-12-2004 at 05:17:12 PM
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These "legal" copies didn't by any chance come from a Dell computer did they?

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