Hardware install help

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scarby23

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Getting "Please install the CD labled 'Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 CD'" message.
I installed a PSU, graphics card, and RAM.
Swapped the old card back in and its doing the same. Put the old ram in as well and still got the message.

Just checking to see if anyone had any ideas.
 
I just put the original hardware in and I'm still getting the message. I doubled checked all the cables and everything looked good. I will check them again after i take a break from it.......hopefully nothing broke.
 
Sounds like its trying to find a driver for your hardware. I remember back when, you had to put in the 98 cd to finish installing certain hardware. Check device manager for devices still needing drivers and let us know.
 
I took a photo of the inside of the computer before this upgrade adventure and I noticed one of the HDD, one on top, its SATA cable looked unplugged. I got home unplugged it and booted it back up with the new PSU and graphics card and of all things it booted correctly.
Turns out I had one too many cables connected.
 
Does your C: drive have a folder named \i386 on it? If so, when the install program asks you to install the XP disk, point it to that folder on your drive. Not all vendors do this but many install the \i386 folder on your C: drive which contains all of the XP install files.

I just noticed that it's asking for the Service Pack 3 CD, not the XP install disk. The SP3 CD is downloadable from the Microsoft website.
 
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