Windows XP Setup Blank Screen

[Leviathan22]

Hey:

I was having the same problem as well with a Gateway 6100 series today (01/29/2012). In my case my, my 80GB hard drive went T's up. I researched the HD replacement. For our series of laptops, the max GB we can buy is a PATA 120GB. I have researched whether or not a BIOS update would take advantage of hard drive bigger than that. My research concluded that it would not.

Now back to your problem. The problem with the screen going blank in my case was that Windows 7 does not support my native Intel VGA card and the generic driver takes over at the point of interrupting the full booting process and the reason why the screen goes blank.

So what I did was go to Gateway and get the VGA driver for my card and installed the correct driver anyways with Windows 7 loaded.

At the end of the installation it asks to restart the computer which I did, but during the boot, I pressed F10, pressed 1 for "boot from CD/DVD" with the XP disk in the CD drive and the process initiated.

If you fail to stop the booting process with Windows 7 install, it will tell you your VGA card is not supported and will automatically revert to a generic driver and you will have to try the process again.

The video card being good and it being compatible may or may not be the issue.

Good luck dude or dudette,

D. Brown, Olympia, WA

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[Leviathan22]

Hey:
I was having the same problem as well with a Gateway 6100 series today (01/29/2011). In my case my, my 80GB hard drive went T's up. I researched the HD replacement. For our series of laptops, the max GB we can buy is a PATA 120GB. I have researched whether or not a BIOS update would take advantage of hard drive bigger than that. My research concluded that it would not.

Now back to your problem. The problem with the screen going blank in my case was that Windows 7 does not support my native Intel VGA card and the generic driver takes over at the point of interrupting the full booting process and the reason why the screen goes blank.

So what I did was go to Gateway and get the VGA driver for my card and installed the correct driver anyways with Windows 7 loaded.

At the end of the installation it asks to restart the computer which I did, but during the boot, I pressed F10, pressed 1 for "boot from CD/DVD" with the XP disk in the CD drive and the process initiated.

If you fail to stop the booting process with Windows 7 install, it will tell you your VGA card is not supported and will automatically revert to a generic driver and you will have to try the process again.

The video card being good and it being compatible may or may not be the issue.

Good luck dude or dudette.

 

[thiru_11]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (More info?)

I have the same problem as you. My computer is a Dell dimension 3000 and I
have call the support line and they fix the problem. The process as follow:

1. Use a Win98 startup disk to Boot up your computer. The reason for this
is, it need to use some command within the Win98 startup disk.

2. Change the drive to the RAM drive that contain all startup utilities, it
may be E: if you have CD rom or D:. Just cleck where all the utilties locate.

3.Type Debug on the DOS prompt and hit Enter.
the following are commands you type, beware of the space between each.

-f 200 l1000 0 hit Enter
-A CS:100 hit Enter
it will then show some number like this xxxx:x010 on a new line (where x is
number of you hardDisk
After you type mov ax,301 hit Enter
it will show xxxx:0103
After that you type mov bx,200 hit Enter
it will show xxxx:0106
Then you type mov Cx,1 hit Enter
it then shows xxxx:0109
type mov Dx,80 hit Enter
it shows xxxx:010C
Type Int 13 hit Enter
it will show xxxx:101E
Type Int 20 hit Enter
new line show xxxx:0110 hit Enter
Type -g
it display "Teminated program normally" then power off the system and turn
it back on to see if the problem solve. Good luck!




"sosak" wrote:

> Okay I have a Gateway 4100 with a New drive (IDE 80 Gigs) I just got in from
> Gateway to replace the one that was Bad. When I boot to the Winodws Xp pro CD
> I get the Prompt " Press any key to boot from CD" I do so then I see it go to
> the next screen That say's " Setup is inspecting your Hardware configuration"
> After that point the screen is Blank but the computer is still on....
>
> ANy Ideas?
>
> Video Card is good and the HD is New from Gateway.
>
> Thank You
> Sosak

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[christalex]

Hello , I'm having similar problems with my pc , I've been trying to reinstal windows xp for quite some time with no succes , the setup just stops at "Setup is inspecting ...." The HDD's are ok , I've tested both and no error showed up , I've striped the pc so I would only have the graphics card , cpu , one ram , one hdd and dvd rom , I tried installing from CD and USB flash drive , I used dban to completely erase the hdd's and then formated them using parted magic in ntfs file format .

Windows 7 and Vista install with no problems only xp won't install. I had xp installed before , might the problem be from an updated bios? the update is from 2007.

What can I do?

 

[Gyde]

This problem is often caused by partitions not supported or reconized by Windows XP, might be old linux / unix partitions or some other partitions left on your harddrive by another OS.

My solution is usually to format the drive completely using something like: http://www.sysresccd.org/
1 - Get the cd (iso)
2 - Burn it to a cd
3 - Boot from the cd
4 - Start the graphical menu (From the menu)
5 - You will see a simple gui with a terminal open
6 - Start gparted from the terminal, by typing: gparted [ENTER]
7 - Format your disk or delete all your partitions and apply
8 - Close gparted, restart the computer by typing: shutdown -r now [ENTER]
9 - Insert your Windows XP cd again, and retry your installation (crossed fingers)

Hope this helps