Re: Attempt to upgrade Pavillion a1250n OS to XP Pro

Did you ever get past this issue? I am encountering the same problem and am
currently stumped as to what might cause this to occur.

Thanks,
-BKuhl


"kgo" <kgoden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I just bought an HP pavillion a1250n multimedia pc. I didn't really
> want the XP media center OS but wanted to try out the Athlon 64 X2
> processor and the price seemed pretty good. So, I went home and popped
> in my XP Pro install media and began the process. The install media
> booted like normal. It came to the partition table and I deleted the
> existing partition, created a new one, formatted it and told it to
> install XP there. It made it to the point where it would normally
> reboot from the hard drive and continue with setup. After the reboot,
> the screen just goes blank and nothing happened. Called HP and they
> said they don't support upgrading the OS and that, in fact, it voids
> the warranty. Nice. Then, of course, the line went silent...
>
> The system has an on-board video chipset so I thought maybe it was
> video drivers or something weird there. I found an old pci video card,
> plugged it in and got the same behavior. I've done this lots of times
> and never had a problem with other systems. Anyone else out there
> tried this yet?
>


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