Re: winxp pro installation blank screen after CD insert.

Lucky you! Unfortunately I haven't got this much luck.

I have a HP zv6251EA laptop, so I can't change (and I don't want to either)
any hardware too. As a factory dedault Windows XP Home was installed on the
machine. Then I decided to use linux. This installation from cdrom went fine
and I had a 100% linux machine (is it dangerous to tell this here?).

Since I still need Windows for a number of programs for school I decided to
make the laptop dual boot. Therefore I first need to install a version of
Windows and after that I have to install some linux OS.

Well, normally you just put in the Win XP Home (provided by HP in both
English and Dutch in my case) cdrom and the installation begins. I get a
message like:

"Press a key to start from cdrom" (and I press a key)

Then Windows installation says: "Configuring hardware etc." and goes into a
blank screen as described above. No cdrom/HD lights flicker anymore and I can
only reboot.

All Windows Xp Home EN, Windows XP Home NL and Windows XP Pro EN do this
while my Windows 2000 can be installed successfully on this machine!!! I
thought they pretty much had the same installer!!! This also pretty much
rules out the idea that the blank screen is caused by some display adapter.

I know that I have to disable framebuffering for the linux installation so
maybe that's the difference between the Windows 2000 and Windows XP
installers.

Anyway I've installed Win2000 now and I've upgraded to Windows XP Pro, so my
problem is gone. It remains strange however that a large manufacturer like HP
ships Windows XP cdroms that can only be used for installing Windows XP Home
(in another language) by copying all installation files into a directory
previous to rebooting and installing the new Windows XP Home version. Besides
that I wouldn't be able to solve my problem when I had not got Windows 2000.

It's a strange world...
Greatings

"Mike Matheny" schreef:

> Glad we could help!! I can't tell you how many times users tell me this or
> that is happening regularly, but when I go stand behind them to see it, it
> never reappears. I often joked about printing up life-sized cut-outs of me
> and standing them in the cubicles just to scare the PCs into behaving!!!
>
> --
> Mike Matheny
> "nsahoo" <nsahoo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4AF6D600-369E-4CEA-91C2-D8014AA04884@microsoft.com...
> >
> >
> > "nsahoo" wrote:
> >
> > > "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:
> > >
> > > > If your motherboard has an onboard video chip, then you must
> > > > open the BIOS and disable it and then enable AGP support for
> > > > your Radeon 9800 graphics card.
> > >
> > > Thanks for all the help buddy. But, I don't think I have a onboard video
> chip. It's a dell dimension 4600 machine. Looked at the back side, there is
> just one monitor port coming out of the Radeon Card. I didn't see any option
> in bios to disable onboard video or enable AGP support for radeon. I am not
> sure whats wrong.
> >
> > OK. As misteriously as it was failing, it started working again. Thanks
> all.
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