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Cannabliss

10-09-2002, 04:03 PM

I have a K7VAT m/b with an 850 mhz Athlon, 384mb ram and an Inno 3D Geoforce 2 64mb gfx card.
When I try and install XP on this system it hangs early on in the setup. The point it hangs is when it says Starting Windows.... in the bottom bar, just before it copies the setup files from the cd.
I have tried swapping memory and removed all extra boards, and tried a lot of bios settings to no avail. Has anyone out there got xp running on a K7VAT lucky star m/b or on an Inno3d geo 2 ?
Any help gratefully appreciated. :t

dwood

10-09-2002, 04:39 PM

possibly you just cant install win xp on your board. I had that problem too with a k7vza 1.0 try as you may you wont be able to install .There is a list of supported mobos on microsoft site look around you will find it..

jmichna

10-09-2002, 04:50 PM

What happens if you copied the contents of the i386 folder off the CD and did the entire install from your hard drive?
jmichna

SPEEDO

10-09-2002, 04:56 PM

I had this same exact problem with an Abit KT7a-Raid motherboard and the only way I got around it was to move the hard drive to another machine and load XP on then move it back right after the install. Oh if this board has Raid on it install the raid driver before you move it back.

SPEEDO

Cannabliss

10-10-2002, 08:55 AM

I`ve tried dumping i386 folder on already, made no difference though.
At what stage of the XP install do you swap the drive over Speedo ?

Strawbs

10-10-2002, 09:19 AM

Have a look at this User Review (http://www.sysopt.com/userreviews/mboards/reviewhtml/Lucky_Star_K7VAT.html), It seems you may need to upgrade your power supply unit.

:t

tranka32

10-10-2002, 03:24 PM

did you get to the eula,, I know,, that hung me up a few times... ????around the same area,, it just couldn't find it,,, and show it to me,, so I could agree to the rental!!!!!!!!:p

Bigjakkstaffa

10-10-2002, 03:52 PM

Is it an MX geforce card??

If so there is an issue with win Xp and certain BIOSES on MX chips which causes a black screen hang at the first reboot during installation...

...hang on see if i can find the MSKB article....

--Jakk:t

Bigjakkstaffa

10-10-2002, 03:54 PM

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q307551&

Thats the boy... i think

--Jakk:t

Cannabliss

10-10-2002, 04:00 PM

:cool: All up and running on xp now, yeah it was my card, I swapped it for voodoo 3 and installed perfectly. I then restarted, popped out the voodoo 3 and put in my geo 2 and hey presto xp loaded , didnt even find new hardware just all up and running :)
Figured it out when I saw the screen briefly fliker on my other pc at that stage cus it was changing resolution / refresh rate. Tnx for the tips tho :D

Cannabliss

10-10-2002, 04:03 PM

Oh just incase anyone else having probs installing xp other problems I found on other pc`s was mainly incompatible memory chips, even though both were 66mhz chips it still had problems on the install but runs fine if you put them in once youve got xp setup . Only other problem I had was xp locking up on autoboot cd`s and that was just an old cd rom drive goetting flaky .

Bigjakkstaffa

10-10-2002, 04:17 PM

Yeah your installation problem was prolly down to that gf2 compatibility problem i mentioned.

Glad you got it sorted though - call back if you need any other help.. although you may wanna start a new thread

--Jakk:t

Rcttexas

10-10-2002, 05:50 PM

I had the same problem with my GF2mx400. Had to put my VooDoo 3 card in to install, the swap out later.

Bigjakkstaffa

10-11-2002, 03:37 AM

I chucked an XP disc in the bin because i thought it was a dud - all because of that :mad:

--Jakk:t