No Emulation

[bigkidd]

New motherboard and HDD in PC, when attempting to install XP PRO getting "NO EMULATION" when trying to boot from CD, It takes a really long time but then starts trying to install. Even if it goes all the way to the first time it wants to reboot, it will not pick up form where it left off and just start over again. Anyone ever went through this?

What I have done so far:

Installed OS on same HDD on my second PC with no issues. Everything is pointing me to the motherboard, thinking about flashing the bios but not sure if will help.

[Paul Komski]

WinXP CDs use no emulation to boot up so that message can probably be ignored. You do have to hit any key to boot from the CDROM when you get a message to that effect during boot up.

Since you are sometimes getting to the first reboot stage I guess it appears that the installation setup is going to work - but then fails. You might want to run a hardware compatibility check for WinXP.

Are you attempting a clean installation onto a brand new partition. You could try copying the i386 folder to the HDD and then running winnt from there. Post back if you want any help to do this.

[bigkidd]

Thanks for the reply; yes, it is a fresh install on a new partition. I am using a bootable XP pro CD on a pretty reliable ASUS motherboard.

[bigkidd]

So, I can copy the i386 contents into C:\winnt from dos and then start the setup phase?

[Paul Komski]

Just copy the i386 folder itself.
eg (D: being the source drive), enter the followng lines from a DOS prompt and have smartdrv.exe in C:

C:\smartdrv
md C:\i386
copy D:\i386\*.* C:\i386
C:\i386\winnt

[bigkidd]

I will give it a try this afternoon, thanks.