got another cd drive to try?
I have an HP Pavilion 7940 1 gig Intel CPU 256 ram 40 gig hd.
At boot up it does post fine, identifies CPU, counts ram, see's all devices HD CD etc, and then goes STRAIGHT to a blinking cursor and after 4 sec a DOS message appears that says "error loading operating system" and hangs there indefinetly. .
I went into Bios change boot order to Atapi CD rom first. I then load a bootable CD, and still same results!
I don't even hear the CD-Rom spin up, though the door will open and accept a bootable CD!
I tried clearing CMOS, but to no avail. The same message appears immediately after POST?
I swapped out a good hard drive that had a working copy of XP and still no luck
any suggestions?
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got another cd drive to try?
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Someone said HP cd rom drives wont read so that was my next move thanks
after 500 cd boot installs its 1 of 3 things
the cd drive sux
the cd sux
the ram has errors(causing bsod on install)
ok, 4 the hdd is stuffed,partition it to 1000mb less than full size
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sounds like this ones a good ol' trial and error ey phill
and also what do you mean hp cdrom drives wont read?
if u need a spare cd rom drive drop me a pm i have some spare ones sitting around u can have, nothin fancy but it'll do the job. Just pick it up or pay for post on it
gl
Jumpers set correctly on Drives?? Unless its on auto detect, this could be an issue to.. And Are the drives set correct order on IDE ribbon?
I used new/different CD rom drive and different 40 gig drive. Booted up fine from the CD, reformatted the newer 40 gig and installed a new fresh XP copy and ALL is right with the world!
thanks all
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