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Old 20-10-2004, 10:02   #6
Noirris green
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Re: disk boot failure ..insert system disk.......help

INSTALL UPDATE

Got hold of a fresh set of xp boot up floppies and started to installââ‚à ‚¬Ã‚¦got to disc 4 and it hung †¦.dmboot.sys corruptedââ‚ ¬Â¦..had a go with different permutations of the other 2 sets of xp boot disks that I have and similar errors kept cropping upâ₠¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¦so no joy thereââ‚ÆšÂ¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¦..bought a new xp home edition with sp1a cdâ₠¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¦.boot from cd starts the setup ..yahooââ‚à ‚¬Ã‚¦then bollox †¦âââ €šÂ¬Ã‚¦BSOD blue screen of death as it jumps from setup to starting windowsââ‚à ‚¬Ã‚¦this is still during installationâââ€à …¡Ã‚¬Ã‚¦.varying excuses and error codes

DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUALÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃÆ ’¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚¦

.googling this points to driver errorsââ‚Ãâ €šÂ¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¦.got my wireless NIC on the pciââ‚Âà ‚¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¦so will remove it and try againââ‚ÆšÂ¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¦..changed my ATI for my gf4200ââ‚Ãâ €šÂ¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¦no joy changed the cdrom †¦no joyââ‚Âà ‚¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¦ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢à ƒ¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚¬Ã‚¦Ram could be a problemââ‚à ‚¬Ã‚¦bios sees both sticks ..but they are different speeds of DDR so will take one out aââ‚ ¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¦and move the other around the slotsââ‚ÆšÂ¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¦..

Iââ‚ ¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢m posting this from workââ‚ ¬Ã‚¦so no partition malarkeyââ‚à ƒ‚¬Ã‚¦I did FDISK the HD with a win 98 cd †¦so should I reformat it †¦and then let the xp disk partition it??

5 nights doing thisâ₠¬Ã‚¦.man..
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