xp installation probs

[waynejkruse10]

i am installing xp pro on a athlon xp 2200+ with asus a7n8x with a maxtor 120gb hdd.
i boot from the xp disk and format the drive, and install the files needed such as drivers. then the installation tells me to restart and it does. normally it boots the rest of the installation of the hard disk but it just says

error loading operating system

and nothing more.
please help, this is a completely new problem to me!!!!
wayne

 

[Seria]

try taking a good-old windows 98 startup disk with F-disk on it and re-format the HD. then put the XP disk back in and see if that works.... if not, then there might be a problem with the memory where the XP disk is tyring to load all of that stuff.

 

[waynejkruse10]

dont worry, i fixed it, i changed this thingo in the bios, with a bit of scrounging i found i site that about twenty people had the same prob,
thanks anyway

 

[derrmc]

dont worry, i fixed it, i changed this thingo in the bios, with a bit of scrounging i found i site that about twenty people had the same prob,
thanks anyway

what did you change in the bios?

 

[waynejkruse10]

i changed the hard drives access mode from chs to lba, as stated here
http://www.computing.net/os2/wwwboard/forum/1437.html
wayne

 

[derrmc]

i changed the hard drives access mode from chs to lba, as stated here
http://www.computing.net/os2/wwwboard/forum/1437.html
wayne

oh yeah, that would work!

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