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June 9th, 2006 01:00

Please help me with XP installation problem

I bought Inspiron 1300 a couple of days ago. I want to replace the XP home with XP pro. However, when I reboot my laptop from CDROM, the system tells me "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to my computer". And it also says something about "BIOS updates", "Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing".
 
Can somebody please tell what I am supposed to do?
 
THanks!
 
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    Denny Denham

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    Posted June 9th, 2006 01:00

    hcarousel,

    You are not booting from the XP CD. The error message you are receiving indicates that Windows is loading which will not happen if you boot from the CD. See this.

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    hcarousel

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    Posted June 9th, 2006 01:00

    Hi, Denny,
     
    Yes, I am booting from the XP CD.
     
    I tried that CD on other machine and it worked just fine.
     
    One thing is the XP Home on my laptop is newer than XP pro on the CD. Would that cause such a problem?
     
    THanks!
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    hcarousel

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    Posted June 9th, 2006 03:00

    By the way, I have set the computer to boot from cdrom first.
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    jmwills

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    Posted June 9th, 2006 04:00

    If you boot from the CD, it does not matter what is on the hard drive as it is not recognized as the first boot source. 
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    buffalojimb

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    Posted June 14th, 2006 20:00

    I have just purchased an inspiron B130 with xp home and trying to upgrade to xp pro.  I am having the same problem.  Did anyone come up with the solution yet?

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