Sixers
03-30-2002, 02:28 AM
Hello, before I explain my problem here is my setup which I have yet to use thanks to Seagate:
Epox EP-8KHA+
Athlon XP 2000+ (w/ Alpha PAL8045)
Mushkin 256MB PC-2100 HP DDR SDRAM
Seagate Barracuda IV 40GB HD (ATA100)
Artec 56x CDROM
Artec 24x 10x 40x CDRW
Sound Blaster Audigy X-Gamer
Netgear FA11 NIC
VisionTek Xtasy GeForce4 Ti 4600
Now to my problem which has me frustrated to the point where I threw a perfectly good power supply into the wall... I built a brand new system and when I attempt to install WinXP (or Win2k) it hangs at the screen where it says "Setup Is Starting Windows XP." (which is right after it loads all the drivers; about two minutes into the text-mode setup)
This problem is even documented on Microsoft's site (http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q310760).
The solution, which is to specify a third party disk controller driver during setup, (which I've done in the past on Win2k with a Maxtor hard drive) would be just dandy if Seagate had ANY drivers in existence for this purpose.
Has anyone run into a problem like this before? Is it even HDD-related problem? (I don't trust Microsoft's support pages) Someone please help me out and point me in the right direction. I have a GeForce 4 and I can't even use it. My pain... it runs deep! Let me share it with you!
Thanks in advance.
Kai
sixers@optonline.net
Epox EP-8KHA+
Athlon XP 2000+ (w/ Alpha PAL8045)
Mushkin 256MB PC-2100 HP DDR SDRAM
Seagate Barracuda IV 40GB HD (ATA100)
Artec 56x CDROM
Artec 24x 10x 40x CDRW
Sound Blaster Audigy X-Gamer
Netgear FA11 NIC
VisionTek Xtasy GeForce4 Ti 4600
Now to my problem which has me frustrated to the point where I threw a perfectly good power supply into the wall... I built a brand new system and when I attempt to install WinXP (or Win2k) it hangs at the screen where it says "Setup Is Starting Windows XP." (which is right after it loads all the drivers; about two minutes into the text-mode setup)
This problem is even documented on Microsoft's site (http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q310760).
The solution, which is to specify a third party disk controller driver during setup, (which I've done in the past on Win2k with a Maxtor hard drive) would be just dandy if Seagate had ANY drivers in existence for this purpose.
Has anyone run into a problem like this before? Is it even HDD-related problem? (I don't trust Microsoft's support pages) Someone please help me out and point me in the right direction. I have a GeForce 4 and I can't even use it. My pain... it runs deep! Let me share it with you!
Thanks in advance.
Kai
sixers@optonline.net