Setup - blue screen

patrickv

patrickv

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This pc came preloaded with win MCE05.Now i want to remove mce and put winXPSP2. I tried upgrading but somehow it doesn't want my cd -key.Any key i use says invalid.So i backup stuff. and booted with winXP to start setup only to get a blue screen saying "inaccessible boot device" or "please insert your winXPSP2 cd and press enter".

Strange, the pc is brand new and all devices are fine,cd roms,ram,HD etc..
I used a linux cd and format the c drive but the same error appears.

btw, the Pc is a Dell dimension 9200.Dual core cpu,1gb ram.

note that i also removed the dell fat partition which it used for utilities.
Now the pc is blank no OS's still looking for a way to boot without blue screen
 
Is the drive a sata or an ide drive? If the system came with a sata drive you will need to prepare a driver disk and have the XP installer load those when first starting that up. The cd that has the board drivers should also have the drivers needed for this.

On the first splash when booting with the XP cd you will see the F6 option to load SATA/RAID drivers now and browse to the driver disk. The installer will then load them from there. Otherwise the XP installer will fail to even see any sata.
 
i have resource and driver cd's at hand but when im in the xp setup (i pressed F6 to load additional drivers) it ask me for floppy ?
i thought it would ask me for a cd rom.
now how do i load sata drivers from floppy ?
 
JordanII said:
If the CD will not boot try changing the BIOS.

~Jordan
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That's not the problem there. A drive floppy is needed for the XP installer to copy those from and load into memory in order to properly detect the sata hd.

With the board's own software cd you can generally boot with that and choose the format floppy option. Make sure this is done first and then use the option to create driver disk while the newly formatted floppy is still in the drive. Just using a brand new floppy out of a new pack won't work. For some reason the drivers will be copied to the disk more fully when the tool there is used to format the disk. For Asus boards that's practically a mandate!

Once the driver disk is ready try the F6 method again and browse to the drivers seen. When the installer detects the correct one you will see the drive listed after those are loaded just like the drive was an ide. I ran into this problem where the boot from board cd for formatting and then creating the disk while Windows was running went error free.

But without an OS on the system for doing it that way you have to do when booting with the cd. One driver error may come up where you will then have to take the freshly formatted disk and put it on another running system to then have the board cd's utility copy the drivers there. That's why dual OSing here sometimes really becomes worthwhile.
 
Matter solved. I downloaded the driver off Intel and put on floppy. it booted and loaded. Solve...hmmm that was something
 
Don't worry I still had some fun here when the Asus cd won't quite copy the drivers correctly even with that tool formatting the disk while booting from it. I would see one driver won't or couldn't read! After reformatting the floppy I booted Windows and then used the utiltiy for creating the driver disk. That's when all drivers loaded and XP went on the first sata master here. Vista on the other hand readily sees sata as well as ide drives. No floppies needed!
 
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