Xp Boot Problem

[MAKO]

My system is as follows; AMD Athlon 1800, 512mb Ram, 40gb HD. The problem is that I finally decided to upgrade Win98SE to XP. After the install everything seemed fine. After I shut down the computer and restarted it the next day all I got was a lovely picture of a nice green hill with no icons and no other programs running. I re-installed XP and everything looked ok again. After shut down and restart the next day, the same thing happened. Ideas please??? Thanks

[123456]

Does the taskbar show up? And also, try right clicking the background. Anything pops up?

[Paul Komski]

a nice green hill with no icons and no other programs running
That sounds like a normal start-off WinXP Desktop.

If you had a Start button - you should have been in business.

[123456]

Oh yeah, and does pressing the Windows key, (next the the left control button on the bottm-left of the keyboard), work?

[MAKO]

Right clicking on the background does nothing, pressing the windows button does not work and the only thing that shows up on the task bar is exif launcher. If I press start I get the normal menu ie. My Computer, Documents, Programs etc but if I select anything the computer freezes. Thanks for the responses though. I wish I could get rid of XP without reformating but I can't even do that because it says the registry has changed since the install.

[sea69]

Did you do the upgrade version of install (from within win98), or a clean install?

[MAKO]

I had win98 running and did the upgrade with the disc from there.

[sea69]

Well you are much better off doing a CLEAN install, booting from the CD. That way you can reformat the hard drive and circumvent many conflicts from previous operating systems.

[123456]

How to perform a clean install. Insert your XP cd into your cd-rom/whatever drive. Reboot. Boot from the cd is prompted. Follow the instructions the wizard asks you. Anything you're unclear of, let us know. I;ve installed various OS'es a lot these days.

[sea69]

You may need to go into BIOS (system setup) and change your boot sequence order to boot to cd rom device first...

[MAKO]

Thanks gents. I have an older HD laying around that I will try this with. I'll post with results.