Re: Pentium 4 computer won't boot past BIOS
- From: Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 21:52:55 +0200
Horst Franke schrieb:
the Intel Logo after booting is a setup of the BIOS.
Right. On another machine I encounter problems with the even the logo display. Sometimes it helps to turn the monitor off and on again, but not always. Only later, when the booted OS takes control, the graphics card is initialized compatible with my monitor.
But I cannot understand why a _BIOS screen_ was then displayed.
Looks like as if no BOOT device was found.
This happened because I tried several keys, in order to get visual feedback from the machine.
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.
Then a progess indication (dots) should become visible after the text, and finally at least an error message.
A changed graphics card should not cause any severe problem except
for asking Microsoft for a new activation key.
This seems not to apply in my case. None of the previously installed XP systems asked for re-activation, when they happened to come up at all.
As far as I know a W2K does not require this cycle.
Right. This makes the activation a possible trouble source with newer Windows versions.
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.
I had no problems when booting the CDs on a very different (64 bit) machine. One CD is a Dell OEM version, that never complained about a non-Dell machine.
The setup programs also displayed the progress dots after "inspecting", until I had to replace the graphics card. I still wonder what's happening when the installation hangs without any feedback, and when a previously installed system hangs for half an hour, also without any feedback. If it were only a graphics card problem, a system still should react on CTRL-ALT-DEL, or on the sleep button.
Also: when I restored one of my XP installations from a backup, taken before the replacement of the graphics card, that installation happend to boot immediately. Of course I had to update the display driver, to get out of VGA mode, but until then the system was working as expected.
One reason might be: a Windows update (not part of the backup) prevented the installed system from working with the replaced graphics card.
But this still doesn't explain why the installation CDs fail to proceed on that machine.
DoDi
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