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Thanks, I did exactly that. I found six new(er) floppy's and created the
start disks again. I've made it past disk five, but now as soon as disk 6
starts to load my machine shuts off. I have turned everything off as
instructed below and still the machine shuts off (with a wavering beep) at
disk 6. Any ideas?
Rich A.
"John O" <jo@nospam.ca> wrote in message
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> Possible that the download is corrupt. I would try downloading and
> creating the floppies one more time.
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> Regards.
> John O.
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> "squiggy" <usaarich033@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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>> After completing the advice below and from other posts, I've downloaded
>> XP setup disks (form Microsoft) and tried to install once again. The
>> error this time occurs on disk five, stating that the fastfat.sys is
>> corrupt. Does anyone have an idea what I did?
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>> <cfphillips@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>>> First make sure your bios settings are correct.Get in there
>>> and change the video setting to pci\agp and turn plug and play OS to
>>> (no). No sound card or turn it off. No modem or turn it off.No Nic
>>> card or turn it off.Turn them on or install one at a time after
>>> install.
>>>
>>> Take out the Dvd and just keep 1 hard drive,1 floppy and the
>>> cd rom for the setup. www.bootdisk.com is the right place for the
>>> floppy as stated earlier.
>>>
>>> You should be able to do it from just the cd if it's
>>> bootable.Once it's installed, go back in the bios and change it back
>>> to Pnp OS = yes and change back your video to agp\pci i you have that
>>> cardor onboard. Also turn off anything you are not using, IE: serial
>>> ports,usb.Turn them back on later.
>>>
>>> I've built quite a few and have had the same probs.I just keep the
>>> install simple and have had no problems.Sounds like you have a driver
>>> conflict with the mapping on the board.IE: Cpu bus and pci bus. Just
>>> keep the install simple and it should go right in.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:27:38 -0400, "Rich Albright"
>>> <usaarich033@adelphia.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Just bought a barebones system and tried to load windows XP (Home), but
>>>>system shuts down once the setup disk loads all the drivers as if it
>>>>were
>>>>starting the install process. I have connected everything correctly
>>>>(i.e. cd
>>>>and dvd, hdd, ram, floppy, etc). I know i need to partition the drive,
>>>>but
>>>>can figure out how to create a XP startup floppy that contains the fdisk
>>>>command. Can any help? thnkz
>>>>
>>>
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