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"MCT" <mike.tuller@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto nel messaggio news:65ee7fe6-1c1e-4cb0-bf0d-70672cb8f0e1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
So...for reasons of my own, I am attempting a dual boot between Linux
and Windows. First, to cover the obvious responses: I don't want to
use Vista...period. Win2k is awesome, except on this home built
machine, there is no support for the onboard LAN in Win2k. XP is my
second choice.

Okay, now the problem.

The symptom: Place WinXP CD in system, power up, etc...system says
the usual: "press any key to boot from cd" so I press
spacebar...then "setup is inspecting your hardware, etc"

..then a black screen. No cursor, no beeps, no errors....and I've let
it sit for quite awhile....but alas, computer is in a coma at this
point, other than it responds to the "3 finger salute"

Now, what I've tried:

Tested the CD on other systems. Different vendors even (this is a
commercial disk, not a burn...has the holograph, but appears to be an
OEM version....yet it works on Dell, HP, just not a homebrew). On
other systems, once it "inspects hardware" it goes to blue screen and
preloads all necessary drivers for drive controllers, etc, to run
setup, as normal....on mine...no joy.

Checked Microsoft's HCL - my system will handle both XP AND
Vista....check that off the list.
Updated my BIOS..it needed it anyhow...also used "factory
defaults" ....again, no joy.

My system uses pure SATA (hard disk and DVD/CD combo drive) but I have
also tested on IDE.

The ONLY common denominator that I can see is that it does not like my
homebrew system...which again, has had Win2k on it, as well as several
flavors of Linux.....successfully.

My mobo is an Asus P5N-EM HDMI, with Kingston DDR2 memory...one stick,
2 GB. Hard disk is a Seagate 160 GB Sata...everything else is
onboard....chipset for both LAN, video and audio is Nvidia.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Oh, and to the regs and others I haven't met yet, I hope everyone had
awesome holidays (whichever one you celebrate)

Cheers

-Mike

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