Steve
On 12/16/05, Steve Tomporowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You're telling me, what a freaking mess! But thanks that clears up a lot of confusion.
SteveOn 12/16/05, Chris Reeves < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:The SP2 disc is Disc1.
Disc1 is WindowsXP SP2 w/an extension for MCE
Disc2 is the MCE Installer Kit.
When it asks for SP2, you need to feed it disc1. Otherwise, it can never
finish the install correctly.
CW
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Steve Tomporowski
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 9:15 AM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: [H] Trouble Installing Media Center Edition
I can't get to this system until tonight....I started on the system last
night. AMD 3800+ Dual Core in an MSI Neo4 SLI MB, 1GB memory. It is
replacing an NF2 system. The system posts fine and even boots up on the
original Win2k installation. The original installation was on a PATA drive,
I want to preserve that install, so I added a SATA drive and wanted to
install MCE on the SATA drive (which was unpartitioned and unformated, fresh
out of the box).
MCE went fine, partitioned and formatted the SATA drive without complaint.
It then began copying files over. The only hitch was when it asked for the
SP2 disk, which I didn't have, so I cancelled that part. When it went into
reboot, it refused to boot from either the harddisk or the CD. It gave the
message something like 'Disk Bad, insert System and hit return'. It was
late so I just shut the system down until tonight.BIOS was set to boot CD
first, then floppy, then harddisk. If anything, it should have booted off
the PATA drive. To me this sounds like the CD drive went bad on me and the
system refuses to go further. Any other ideas? I'll be taking a closer
look at it tonight and see what's going on.
Thanks....Steve
