Hey guys,

I have a bit of a problem.

I have an old linux server that needs to reformatted and have XP Installed. It will boot into fedora fine, there are no problems.

Whenever i try to boot from a disk or CD the screen goes blank and i cant do anything about it. I try a very basic boot floppy, and it gives me a comand prompt. I try a bootable floppy with some tools utils, gets to loading a memory manager, says error, one already loaded then nothing.

If i try and boot from the XP CD which is the ideal way, it prompts

setup is now inspecting your hardware configuration.

Then the screen goes blank. The cd spins for a moment but it doesnt seem to load files or anything. so i seem to think the computer is locking up. I cant find anything in the bios that would seem to affect anything.

I have tried pulling everything off the board, defaulting the bios, different video cards agp/pci and still no change.

Can anyone help me with this or does anyone know of a similar problem with a fix. The cpu is intel and im not sure about the board.

Thanks in advance


CTO