PC shuts down when installing XP

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I am trying to install a fresh copy of XP Professional to a new hard drive I
have installed as C:/.

When I get half way though installation, the pc shuts down with no warning
or fault message.

Have a Asus A8R MVP mother board with NVidea GeForce FX 5200. We have fitted
a new SATA drive, which is not recognised yet as the system will not boot and
install operating system. We also have another hard drive, which is full.
Temporarily we have disconnected the SATA and full drive whilst trying to
resolve the problem. I have tried replacement memory in twin modules as
required, which makes no difference.

I am aware that the BIOS is out of date for the board, as there is an update
available, but am unable to install this, as we do not have a stable machine
to work with.

A new power supply has been fitted which hs adeuate capacity as it's output
is 460w.

Please has anyone some ideas we can try?

Many thanks

Mike & Daniel.
 
From memory the shutdown during installation means a hardware problem of
some sort, but not necessarily a faulty hardware problem.
The hard drive should be seen in the bios so look for it or them there.
In my Sata Raid capable motherboard bios the Raid boot feature is enabled
by default and will boot only from Raid. If you want to boot from a single
hard drive you need to set the boot to non-RAID then reboot into the bios
and ajust the time and so on and set the CDRom drive then to the first boot
device.
If you want the bios set to Raid then you install the hard drive
manufacturers Raid drivers from a floppy diskette during the beginning of
the operating system installation by pressing the F6 keyboard key during
the operating system installation process.
 
Hey Man,

Sorry if my Dad didn't explain it properly.

Right, firstly, I had a single IDE HDD with Windows XP on plus all my files
etc. That got full up, and eventually stopped booting, (don't know why,
pretty sure the XP installation is corrupt). Anyway, we took the oppertunity
to get a new HDD with more space - so I got a SATA with a few hundred gigs
on. Only problem was for some reason we couldn't install the OS onto the new
drive - don't know why, but won't go into it as its not really the problem
atm. Anyway, so now we've got a freshly formatted IDE drive which we're
planning to shove the OS onto, so we can log on, update the motherboard
drivers etc. and hopefully get the SATA working.

Now. That problem that we're acctually having is that right in the middle of
installing Windows XP from the CD onto this new IDE drive.... the computer
powers off - without fail - apparently 2 minuites after the acctual XP
installation has begun.

In case it's relative at all btw, the motherboards an ASUS A8R-MVP.


Cheers.
memorex.
 
I had the same problem.You need the drivers for your sata drive as XP does
not recognise them when loading and assumes you have no drive! Load the
drivers onto a floppy(will not work anywhere else)and as soon as XP starts
loading you will see "press F6 for third party drivers)" at the bottom.XP
starts loading and then asks you to press "S" to load third party drivers.
Good Luck
 
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