- Dec 11, 2004
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My daughter was having a random reboot problem with the machine I built for her a few years ago. According to her, McAfee Antivirus said she had a few bugs that McAfee couldn't remove. Rather than giving it to me to work out, she let her boyfreind (a self proclaimed Computer Wiz) work on it.
Last night she brought it over for me to work on. She told me he tried everything he could think of including a format and reinstall of XP Home.
I can get it to boot to the XP CD and it displays the blue "Windows Setup" screen and proceeds to load the files.
When it finishes loading the preliminary setup files I get one of three scenarios:
Most of the time the screen turns black within a split second of the licensing agreement screen coming up and locks out the keyboard.
Sometimes it makes it past the end of the file install and skips right through the licensing agreement and goes to the "Welcome to Setup" but then it completely dissables the keyboard so when I go to press enter to set up Windows XP now, nothing happens.
In both instances the computer stays running but the HD light goes out, the CD winds down and then it dissables the keyboard completely.
I've already:
Ran Memtest386
Tested the Hard drive with WD's utilities
repartioned and formatted twice
Specs:
Soyo K7VME MB
AMD Athlon XP2400 processor
120G WD
1G OCZ Memory
FX GeForce 5200 AGP Video Card
I'm trying to reinstall the same XP HOME CD that I originally installed when it was first built.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Last night she brought it over for me to work on. She told me he tried everything he could think of including a format and reinstall of XP Home.
I can get it to boot to the XP CD and it displays the blue "Windows Setup" screen and proceeds to load the files.
When it finishes loading the preliminary setup files I get one of three scenarios:
Most of the time the screen turns black within a split second of the licensing agreement screen coming up and locks out the keyboard.
Sometimes it makes it past the end of the file install and skips right through the licensing agreement and goes to the "Welcome to Setup" but then it completely dissables the keyboard so when I go to press enter to set up Windows XP now, nothing happens.
In both instances the computer stays running but the HD light goes out, the CD winds down and then it dissables the keyboard completely.
I've already:
Ran Memtest386
Tested the Hard drive with WD's utilities
repartioned and formatted twice
Specs:
Soyo K7VME MB
AMD Athlon XP2400 processor
120G WD
1G OCZ Memory
FX GeForce 5200 AGP Video Card
I'm trying to reinstall the same XP HOME CD that I originally installed when it was first built.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.