Re: Pentium 4 computer won't boot past BIOS
- From: "Horst Franke" <nospam@invalid>
- Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 03:34:08 +0200
In news:75ek73F17qks8U4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
I have a similar problem, since I first had to replace the graphics
card on a machine, and after that worked[1], also tried an upgrade of
SuSE 10.3 to 11.1. From that time on the Intel logo appeared after booting,
but nothing else. After half an hour, while I was speaking to my
"personal hotline", the BIOS screen happened to appear. Since that
time the machine boots as before, but I cannot use any installation
CD any more. All the Windows (XP) setup disks hang on "Setup is
inspecting your hardware". A BIOS reset to factory or optimized
defaults doesn't help :-(
[1] The installed XP systems were very picky about the exchanged
graphics card. The first system I could make work was a W2k, which had
no problems with that change at all. One XP installation worked after
a couple of tries, in /SOS mode, the other one also required about
half an hour to boot again, regardless of "safe mode" or other boot
options.
Can somebody explain what happens in that long time, when the BIOS or
XP does nothing but show an (almost) blank screen?
Hi DoDi
the Intel Logo after booting is a setup of the BIOS.
But I cannot understand why a _BIOS screen_ was then displayed.
Looks like as if no BOOT device was found.
If a WinXP CD hangs on "Inspecting your hardware" then it looks to me
like checking if the WinXP CD belongs to your current hardware/PC.
A changed graphics card should not cause any severe problem except
for asking Microsoft for a new activation key.
I don't know if this requires a new ProductKey.
But a new activation cycle may be required.
As far as I know a W2K does not require this cycle.
But this also used a different Win2K installation CD.
A Win XP CD performs the checkup of your hardware to test if
this CD is still related to the original hardware it was sold with.
Horst
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