Hang on fresh WinXP Professional install

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I'm trying to install WinXP Pro fresh on my computer (the current OS is
Fedora Core 3, but I removed most of that by doing rm -rf * from / as root).
After booting from the install CD is get the "Press any key to boot from
CD..." message, then "Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware
configuration...," then a blank, black screen that does nothing. The
computer hangs at this point (yes, I have tried waiting to see if it is only
taking a long time to scan the hardware, but no dice). Can anyone help me
out here? I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

jesseoneill@yahoo.com

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I'm not quite sure how to do that. Any advice? BTW, things are royally
messed up--grub is still around, but it won't do anything since I've deleted
most everything, and the BIOS setup is locked with a password that no one
around here remembers.

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Hopefully, your board has a bios configuration jumper block, that will let
you use a maintenance menu to clear the password, depending on your board's
make and model # .

See this link if it applies to your situation..
http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm

j;-)

"jesseoneill" wrote:

> I'm not quite sure how to do that. Any advice? BTW, things are royally
> messed up--grub is still around, but it won't do anything since I've deleted
> most everything, and the BIOS setup is locked with a password that no one
> around here remembers.