Re: Windows XP Installation hangs at the "Setup is starting windows" message
- From: "WSZsr" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 19:05:32 -0500
Not so. If XP did not recognize the Sata controller, it wouldn't even see the hard drive.
"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:46e1783c$0$18929$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
My guess is that XP's setup program doesn't recognize the SATA hard drive. If that's the case you need an "F6 Driver Disk". This would normally come from the maker of the SATA controller, which is probably the main chipset. So you might find it at, for example, the Via or AMD(ATI) web site (not sure what chipset that computer uses)..
Daniel wrote:I am trying to install Windows XP on a Dell Dimension E521. The
computer boots from the CD fine and copies installation files from the
CD to the hard drive. But the installation hangs, freezes, stops
responding at the "Setup is starting windows" message. The hard drive
is completely blank.
AMD Athlon x64 X2 2.0 GHz (model 3800+)
1 GB of ram (512x2)
160 GB SATA hard drive
Sony CDRW-DVD Combo optical drive
CD-ROM is Dell version of Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 2
I found this article regarding this problem,
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310760
but I've yet to get things to work on my computer. Does anyone know
how I can get Windows XP to continue installing on my E521?
Daniel
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