WinXP installation problem

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Sorry Cuzin - stupid of me to leave that out. Yeah, I'm using the Omni studio (delta 66). My box is the Roll yer own T-bird written up (designed?) by Pete Leoni at Prorec.com. Put it together myself with a little help from a more computer-savvy friend. Minor memory setting tweaks in the bios were about the only issues. I've had a couple BSOD's along the way (literally a couple -2 or 3) but I figure that comes in 98se territory no? I have had some issues with scandisk. It doesn't like my 3rd hd (60 gig maxtor) at all. Freezes hard. Other than that smooth sailing.

lou
 
The whole via thing was fixed a LONG LONG LONG time ago, and I wish people would stop spreading this. I have used a delta with several via motherboards, and no problems. Let the Urban Legend die already. VIA works just fine for music, and just fine for delta.
 
if your looking for a good slot a board, try the Tyan, worked well for me, until I had to upgrade to a fast cpu due to Ego.
 
Bdgr,

Didn't mean to extend urban legend or anything. I have come across too many folks needing help with this VIA issue in the last few months and as long as there are old boards with old drivers and old OS and old this and that...it will continue to be an issue.

New board? Sure no problem...fixed a long time ago.

Cheers.,

Cuzin B
 
Sorry you're having so many problems with XP, Whoopysnorp.

I just wanted to weigh in with my experience here.

I built my PC approx 3-4 yrs ago as a 350 K6-2 system. It's been upgraded to 500 K6-2, 350mb+ PC 100 SDRAM. I'm using an ASUS P-5A motherboard, 2 13.6gb hard drives (Maxtor and Western Digital) UMDA 33 - everything in my system is OLD except my recording card. I have an SBLive!, a 3Com Etherlink XL card, a Terratec 88D recording card, and a Nvidia TNT2 AGP 32mb vid card.

I recently reformatted and went with XP. I've had zero problems with stability, the installation was smooth, and had no problems with hardware compatability. The performance is just as good as with 98se after a little tweaking. The only problem I've had is with the networking setup, but I also just did a reformat of my home server and went with Win 2K, as it didn't meet the hardware requirements for XP - part of the network setup problem was due to my ignorance of 2K.

Maybe you have a motherboard conflict, maybe not - I kind of doubt it. If you only paid 5$ for XP, I'm assuming that it's a, well, umm, copy. No offence or insult intended, of course.

If that's the case, I think you have a bad CD copy, and that's why it won't install properly. I've had such a problem with copies before. XP works on my ancient shit, I don't see why it won't work with your system.
Good luck.
 
Jittering,

Hey - you have a ASUS mobo there my friend - big difference. XP will always go smooth on these...I haven't run into one that didn't work yet.

Cheers,

Cuzin B
 
jitteringjim said:
Maybe you have a motherboard conflict, maybe not - I kind of doubt it. If you only paid 5$ for XP, I'm assuming that it's a, well, umm, copy. No offence or insult intended, of course.
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I can see why you'd think that, but actually you're wrong. It's a 100% legit copy. My university has a deal with Microsoft whereby students can get certain of their products for really cheap, and MS is reimbursed by student computing fees. I got WinXP Pro for $5 and Office XP Pro for $7. Eat your hearts out, suckaz!
 
Apology rendered. :D

Damn good deal, I must say.
I yield the floor to the gentleman from Calgary.
 
If you've got a student card it definitely PAYS to check out the student discount on a LOT of software.
 
Well, a little more background on my XP Home install horror story, just for your amusment.

All vintage 2001 hardware: Asus CUSL2-C, latest BIOS, PIII 800, 512Mb ram, Adaptec SCSI card, Matrox 450, 3com ethernet, 20 and 80 Gb SCSI drives, Yamaha SCSI CD-R drive. Everything's SCSI but the floppy, because as a Unix guy I just flat don't believe in IDE. (;-)

Took doing the install 3 times, and the XP CD-ROM will _not_ boot on that drive/controller combo, nor will the XP installer work with a floppy-with-CD-support boot- but the W98SE CD-ROM/installer will, because that's how I've had to do it to reinstall every couple of months when it melts down.... Oh, well. Installing XP took two days, but it's up and running now, and I'm a happy camper.

But wait: there's more. Tonight, I decided to install my Magic Bullet for adminstering these damned Windows boxes: OnTrack's Fix-It 4.0 Utilities. I learned about them here on this site, and they are downright _invaluable_. My eternal thanks to whoever mentioned them first... http://www.ontrack.com/fixit/

I ran the Registry Fixer, and it discovered 278 invalid and broken entries. This, on a clean, new install, on a freshly formatted partition! I had it fix them, and the machine is noticeably more responsive. It's like the time I ran it on my wife's 5-year-old Compaq W98SE-upgraded-from-W95 box, fixed over 800 (!) registry problems, and damned near doubled its apparent speed...

Lots of Gawdly Windows Hackers have told me I have to be out of my mind to use this utility. All I can say is "it's good to be crazy...". I don't _want_ to know any more about the registry- I just don't want the damnable machine to _piss me off_. And these utilities have proven to provide useful improvements in stability and performance on several W98SE machines, and it looks like they work well for XP as well. Your mileage may vary, but you might find it worth checking out.

Now, Windows Gawds, go ahead and tell me that I'm out of my mind again. I _like_ that, as long as the machine works better after I run it than it did before...

Wierd. I have 8 Sun Sparcstations here running Solaris 7 that never go down, never piss me off, run my DNS, mailserver, compute farm, and have allowed me to make my living for the past many years. All I have to do with them is change the backup tapes in the jukebox every week. It's the 3 Windows machines that really get my goat: everything that Microsoft has done For My Convenience either a: doesn't work, or b: makes life harder. No smiley.
 
Well. I'm back to Win98. I'm thinking about upgrading the mobo/processor, though. XP will have to wait until then. Thanks for the help, anyone who contributed!
 
Got you beat :) We (Penn State) get WinXP Pro, 2000 Pro, all of the Office products (I have 2000 and XP Pro) and Visual Studio products for free! Ah, it's good to be in school. Only one more class until I get my Masters though!
Good luck with your XP problems! I upgraded to 2000 Pro (from Windows 98) last month and I've been very happy. I've been running for about 2 weeks without a reboot :)

PS - now if my school only had a deal with Waves!

Whoopysnorp said:


I can see why you'd think that, but actually you're wrong. It's a 100% legit copy. My university has a deal with Microsoft whereby students can get certain of their products for really cheap, and MS is reimbursed by student computing fees. I got WinXP Pro for $5 and Office XP Pro for $7. Eat your hearts out, suckaz!
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I used to be service manager for a computer store in Provo, near the university. We sold student versions to everybody. One day, a Utah state trooper stops in, and was looking at word perfect(this was a LONG time ago), and was saying he wished there was a way to get it cheaper.
Me "Students get it real cheap, you could get a student discount".

Trooper "But I'm not a student"

Me "Maybe you know someone who is a student, or a teacher"

Trooper "No....Too bad, I dont"

Me "You could just tell me your a student, and I would beleive you"

Trooper "You would?

Me "Of course, your law enforcement, you wouldnt lie to me"

About then the store manager walks up, and the Trooper turns to him.

"So, if I told you guys I was student, so I could buy a student copy of Word Perfect, you would believe me?"

Manager "I believe every thing I'm told", and walks off

We sold more copies of student word perfect to Utah Hwy Patrol officers that week...And I got commsion off of them, and the computers we sold too. At one point, we would have patrol cars pulling up to the store to get a load of computers to take down south to thier friends.
 
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