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XP Install Stalls
Greetings,
I've got a Dell Dimension 2400 2.2GHz P4 system... I guess I was doing too much at one time and the system crashed hard... screen froze and mouse & keyboard commands were unresponsive so I had to turn it off and restart.
On restart, I'd get the Win XP splash screen and then I'd get a Blue Screen of Death... I mostly got the PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA message, but after some troubleshooting, including plugging in a previous hard drive backup (which booted XP successfully) I finally knew it was an XP problem and not a hardware problem.
I've been doing a WinXP reinstall over my existing install and I can't get beyond the 35 minutes notice... the various last entries in 3 of the log files are as follows:
SETUPLOG.TXT indicates Entering InstallEnumeratedDevices
SETUPAPI.LOG indicates #I121 Device install of "USB\ROOT_HUB20\4&57AC5A1&0" finished successfully
SETUPACT.LOG indicates OEMBIOS.CAT was copied
Now I've been messing with this for several days and haven't made any progress... it pretty much hangs up after a half hour, and gets nowhere if I leave it overnight.
I did so much troubleshooting as to re-install my stock RAM; disable everything in the BIOS; update the BIOS from A03 to A05; revert the BIOS to A00; re-install my stock CD drive; copy the CD to the hard drive and continue the Setup from there; install a PCI video card and disable everything in the BIOS including the Mouse.
I've Googled until the cows have come home, tried everything I can think of, and I'm really getting tired.
Any ideas?
(edited to add model number)
I've got a Dell Dimension 2400 2.2GHz P4 system... I guess I was doing too much at one time and the system crashed hard... screen froze and mouse & keyboard commands were unresponsive so I had to turn it off and restart.
On restart, I'd get the Win XP splash screen and then I'd get a Blue Screen of Death... I mostly got the PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA message, but after some troubleshooting, including plugging in a previous hard drive backup (which booted XP successfully) I finally knew it was an XP problem and not a hardware problem.
I've been doing a WinXP reinstall over my existing install and I can't get beyond the 35 minutes notice... the various last entries in 3 of the log files are as follows:
SETUPLOG.TXT indicates Entering InstallEnumeratedDevices
SETUPAPI.LOG indicates #I121 Device install of "USB\ROOT_HUB20\4&57AC5A1&0" finished successfully
SETUPACT.LOG indicates OEMBIOS.CAT was copied
Now I've been messing with this for several days and haven't made any progress... it pretty much hangs up after a half hour, and gets nowhere if I leave it overnight.
I did so much troubleshooting as to re-install my stock RAM; disable everything in the BIOS; update the BIOS from A03 to A05; revert the BIOS to A00; re-install my stock CD drive; copy the CD to the hard drive and continue the Setup from there; install a PCI video card and disable everything in the BIOS including the Mouse.
I've Googled until the cows have come home, tried everything I can think of, and I'm really getting tired.
Any ideas?
(edited to add model number)
Message Edited by Jim D. on 01-17-200711:50 AM
- As explained above, at one point I disconnected/unplugged/disabled (in the BIOS) everything but the PS/2 keyboard and monitor... I even disabled the internal video and tried a PCI video card... no dice.
I was hoping to avoid a complete wipe-out, of course. - Sorry I did that typo thing and neglected to include that little tidbit (I've edited my original post)... it's a Dimension 2400. Not the most flexible BIOS I've ever seen, but I went through it several times disabling this and that, as well as setting it back to defaults by shorting the jumper at the battery.
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Posted January 16th, 2007 00:00