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Hello, i recently got a new motherboard it's a PC chips 920LR, i have a 2.4 ghz pentium 4 processor on it, and for 3 days i've been trying to get an operating system on my hard drive. my original HD was running 2000 pro. i cannot get that drive to boot without crashing on start up, which i assume is because the boot file on that HD shows a completely different motherboard and processor.
I grabbed an old HD, formatted it and installed windows 98se successfully on about the 3rd time after turning the L1/L2 cache to disabled, however, it took about 3 hours to install because of that. After it was installed i have enabled the L1/L2 cache and it works fine. But now i'm trying to upgrade it to XP from the upgrade disk. It gets to the part where the computer analyzes my configuration and then reboots. It will get to the starting windows screen or Loading windows screen (i can't remember at this moment) then it says please wait and just hangs there forever. Which is what win2000 did last night until i finally gave up.
Does anyone have any idea what is causing this? It's driving me mad after 3 days.
I grabbed an old HD, formatted it and installed windows 98se successfully on about the 3rd time after turning the L1/L2 cache to disabled, however, it took about 3 hours to install because of that. After it was installed i have enabled the L1/L2 cache and it works fine. But now i'm trying to upgrade it to XP from the upgrade disk. It gets to the part where the computer analyzes my configuration and then reboots. It will get to the starting windows screen or Loading windows screen (i can't remember at this moment) then it says please wait and just hangs there forever. Which is what win2000 did last night until i finally gave up.
Does anyone have any idea what is causing this? It's driving me mad after 3 days.