Re: Attempt to upgrade Pavillion a1250n OS to XP Pro

Thanks for all the replies.

In regards to the video card, I was just trying that thinking that it
might get me around a driver issue with the on-board (or integrated)
video chip set. I found an article saying that this is a new chipset
that was created with the Athlon 64 x2 in mind and I thought that maybe
the problem was that the win xp pro setup program just couldn't
communicate with this new chipset. Of course, that doesn't seem to
address the fact that everything appeared to be working fine for the
boot from CD. It was only when the setup program has enough stuff over
on the hard drive that it wants to boot from there to continue the
setup process that the problems occurred. I just know that I've
installed Win XP Pro on a system with that pci card in it so I know
that if it were a driver problem, this card should work. I did go into
the setup menu and tell it to use the PCI slot but that didn't make any
difference.

As far as getting past the issue. No, I haven't made much progress. I
have some Christmas DVDs of my children that I need to make so I was
going to reinstall Media Edition just to get that done so I really
haven't looked into the problem much more--but I will because I really
need XP pro in the end.

On another (sad) note. The system wasn't shipped with a set of
reinstall media. It had a recovery partition and apparently had some
software that allowed you to make your own recovery disks. Sadly, I
didn't see this in the little bit of documentation I looked at. I
should have made the disks but I knew that I wasn't planning to use XP
ME and I've done many XP Pro installs so I happly blew away all the
partitions on the hard drive and began the reinstall. When everything
went south, I called HP and got the bad news and had to listen to "you
should have..." sermons before I could pay $23.00 for them to send me
the reinstall media. I got the media yesterday. There were two DVDs.
It took 2+ hours to go through the two disks. I was then prompted for
a "Supplemental Recovery" disk--which I didn't have, didn't know what
it was. The little pamphlet that I got with the disks said that I
might be prompted for the Supplemental disk(though it didn't say what
it was). I used the online chat to ask an HP tech about it. After
lots of questions that convinced me that I was not going to get an
answer, his advice was to re-run the two disks I had. I said I wasn't
going to do that because there didn't seem to be anything wrong with
the disks I had but that I seemed to be missing a disk that the missing
disk was referred to in the instructions and now 45mins into this
discussion you still haven't told me what this disk is. After about 5
more minutes he asked for my address and s/n and p/n of the system.
They are going to ship me a new set of CDs. I'm not convinced that
this set will work either but I'm hoping that someone just forgot to
put the missing disk into the shipping box. We'll see.

So, if anyone runs into this problem and finds a way around it please
post it here. I will do the same and thanks.

.

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