Re: Attempt to upgrade Pavillion a1250n OS to XP Pro

I got fed up that I could not install either XP Pro or Linux on it
successfully so I finally returned it for credit. I could have spent more
time troubleshooting Linux, but I had no more patience....

One thing I thought of on the way to the store though was that maybe the
media reader is causing a problem. I noticed that they showed up when
picking the install partition. Could they be changing the drive order on
reboot causing it to loose the XP partition? If you feel lucky, try
installing with the media reader disconnected and see if it goes any better.

I'm curious if you find a way to install Pro. I basically could not use the
machine without XP Pro because of my home network, so I decided to move
on....

-BKuhl


"kgo" <kgoden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1134935374.953778.128550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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