Comp hangs at 'Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration'

mountingmuppet · 4 Apr 2006 at 19:53

.. after booting from the XP home cd.
anyone had any experience with this problem, and if so, what did they do to resolve it?

Any solutions ive found on the net need a working floppy drive to carry out, and as my a: drive isnt recognising floppys atm I can't resolve the situation.

Simmy · 4 Apr 2006 at 23:24

I had this problem on a PC last week, which turned out to be a USB card reader.
The card reader was working perfectly, but the windows install just decided it didn't like it. I disconnected the card reader from the USB header on the motherboard and off it went

Try disconnecting any USB stuff you may have

Also, you don't have linux installed on any other partition or hard drive do you? Windows doesn't like that either

Absomalutely · 5 Apr 2006 at 01:01

Simmy said:
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I had a problem similar to this for a WINME install when i added a new Graphics card. If u can, disable / unplug everything from the computer inside and out that you wont need for the installation. It should help as well as speeding up the install process a bit.

mountingmuppet · 5 Apr 2006 at 17:59

thanks i'll give it a try and report back

mountingmuppet · 17 Apr 2006 at 18:45

Well, it didn't work.

I've read that i might need to turn shadowing and all caching off in the bios and then try again...
Any adverse affects to me doing this? I dont think ive even heard of shadowing.