bpn 0 Posted October 15, 2001 Hi, Just Spent 18 hours trying to upgrade from XP RC2 to the final version. I tried to look on several messageboards for some help on my problem, but I couldn´t find that either, so I thought I would post something about it here... The problem was that when the installation has finished the first part, & then rebooting, it just stopped at the startup screeen (with the blue bars running)..The HD light was on for 3 seconds & then off for 3 seconds (the HD did not have any errors) for a few hours without anything happening I tried every Raid driver from 1.03, to the newest v. 2 driver..tried to update the bios, took out everything from my pc, turned of USB, etc, etc, etc....and nothing helped. Then I found out I could install XP on my second HD, so it could only be becuase that I use FAT32 on my second HD, and NTFS is running on my first HD. So I converted from NTFS to FAT32 with Partition Magic 7 & then I had no problem installing XP on my HD Just wanted to tell you guys that, becuase I have read that alot of ppl. has problems installing XP, and hope this will help. My specs: Abit kt7 raid 2*30GB IBM 75GXP in raid 0 900 Mhz TB SB Live Asus Gefore 2 GTS Bpn Share this post Link to post
kazon 0 Posted October 16, 2001 Hi, not sure if this is any help but i had a similar experience installing. I've been told that it was because I had a GF2 grpahics card in my machine which was f**king with the XP startup installation If you have a spare 'non-gf2' graphics card try installing XP with that one in, then put the GF2 back in once installed. Any old card will do, I used a Matrox G400 Millenium and it worked straight away. Then I put the GF2 back in and installed the XP Detonator drivers Its now running great Hope this info works Kazon;) Share this post Link to post
TaoArcher 0 Posted October 16, 2001 Actually, microsoft announced some time back that you would not be able to upgrade from RC to XP final. That might have changed, but it was an announcement at one point. Share this post Link to post