To continue, I must begin by saying that my motherboard was manufactured in 2004, but there have been more versions ot the bios published since then. I don't think that this is relevant. (But I could be wrong.) The thingsthat I wanted to say earlier (but was deprived of saying due to length constraints) are as follows:
1) The windows xp setup disk will not reformat my hard drive agfain. It crashes when I run setup.
2) Enabling LBA mode as the drive label advises me to do results in a system crash. This occurs before I can even exit the bios.
3) Can anyone give me some insight? If not , don't bother responding. If so, I am greatly indebted to you.
2007-03-23 17:57:05 · 5 answers · asked by Steve P 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
you dont have to change any bios settings except for the boot sequence.... if your computer starts and then goes into windows setup but fails between the setup then there could be something wrong with different things.. .like hard disk drive(there could be a bad sector on the hard disk and windows setup is trying to write a file onto that bad sector)...
The setup cd might have some problem with it...
Does it stop at any particular file? like while copying the files? or does it stop while formatting?
it depends on where its erroring out....
2007-03-23 18:04:35 · answer #1 · answered by NeevarP M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By default, the BIOS should be set up in a way for you to simply install your operating system.
The only changes that need to be made are custom options that you want to set. Such as quick boot, voltage, bus speed, boot options etc.
If the computer keeps crashing while you are trying to install windows, you need to isolate the issue.
If you have multiple sticks of memory, try one at a time, see if one of them is bad.
Try cleaning the lens on the CDROM
Check the CD for any damage.
Next, see if you can get a hold of a blank hard drive to borrow. It should be fairly easy to get a hold of say, a 5-10 gig drive just to see if the drive you have is causing the issue.
If none of that does it, bring the computer down to its most basic configuration. Processor, Ram, Video, CD-ROm, Hard drive and Power supply.
Try installing with that set up, see if it was any of the peripherals that caused the issue. If it works, then you just need to finish the installation and add the removed components later.
If none of that works, then you probably have a bad board or bad processor.
2007-03-23 18:06:23 · answer #2 · answered by Bjorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Enter the BIOS and set it to default. If you have access to another computer, install the hard drive as a slave and get a clean format that way. Install the hd, enter the bios again and set the optical drive first in the boot order. If there is not a hardware failure, it will load.
2007-03-23 18:10:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No bios is not the problem, sounds like a virus, a worm to be exact, make a win 98 boot disk and fdisk and format the drive then install, it's the only way to get rid of the roo kit boot virus. go to www.symantec.com to see the info to do this if you do not know how to do it. Xp is nTFS format unless you made it a fat 16 or fat 32 and if it's NTFS it will not work without destroying the drive format and reinstalling.
2007-03-23 18:07:33 · answer #4 · answered by Right 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that doesnt sound like its in ur bios.......sounds like that HD is on the brinks.....id try running a scan on the HD to see if u have any bad sectors.....if uve formated b-4 w/ that bios........it should be able to repeat the process.......extensive formatting can damage sectors on a HD.........give it a go.........good luck
2007-03-23 18:07:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋