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Anonymous   03-06-2005 at 12:23:01 AM

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I have the WindowsXP Home Edition OEM CD Disk.

I reformatted my hard drive.

I put the WindowsXP CD in to the CD drive and boot the system. It boots
to the CD drive and the WindowsXP setup program starts.

The setup copy files to the hard drive and then the message appears
saying " Setup is starting Windows"

Then my monitor goes blank ! Nothing happens afer that. The monitor
loses the video siganl. The computer is still running, but nothing to
the monitor.

Any ideas what is going wrong?

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Anonymous   03-06-2005 at 12:39:57 PM
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You probably need to format another way.
Error Message Setup Cannot Find the End-User License Agreement: http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;326673

Clean install (format disk) Boot to the XP setup CD,press 'R" for the repair prompt (or the OEM 'Recovery Console' prompt), and run
the command DISKPART to remove the existing partition, and then boot to CD, and run Setup.

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"sacto" <sacto@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:1110075781.475004.284620@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I have the WindowsXP Home Edition OEM CD Disk.
>
> I reformatted my hard drive.
>
> I put the WindowsXP CD in to the CD drive and boot the system. It boots
> to the CD drive and the WindowsXP setup program starts.
>
> The setup copy files to the hard drive and then the message appears
> saying " Setup is starting Windows"
>
> Then my monitor goes blank ! Nothing happens afer that. The monitor
> loses the video siganl. The computer is still running, but nothing to
> the monitor.
>
> Any ideas what is going wrong?
>

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Anonymous   03-06-2005 at 02:56:28 PM
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sacto wrote:
> I have the WindowsXP Home Edition OEM CD Disk.
>
> I reformatted my hard drive.
>
> I put the WindowsXP CD in to the CD drive and boot the system. It boots
> to the CD drive and the WindowsXP setup program starts.
>
> The setup copy files to the hard drive and then the message appears
> saying " Setup is starting Windows"
>
> Then my monitor goes blank ! Nothing happens afer that. The monitor
> loses the video siganl. The computer is still running, but nothing to
> the monitor.
>
> Any ideas what is going wrong?
>

Have you made sure that your PC's hardware components are capable
of supporting WinXP? This information will be found at the PC's
manufacturer's web site, and on Microsoft's Windows Catalog:
(http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hcl/default.mspx) Additionally, you
should run Microsoft WinXP Upgrade Advisor (It's on the installation
CD.) to see if you have any incompatible hardware components or
applications.

You should also, before proceeding, take a few minutes to ensure
that there are WinXP device drivers available for all of the machine's
components. WinXP, like WinNT and Win2K before it, is quite sensitive
to borderline defective or substandard hardware (particularly
motherboards, RAM and hard drives).

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