hello guys i just recently got a computer (gateway) and it was running win me. so i decided to upgrade it to win xp pro. it asked me if i wanted to do an upgrade or a clean install and i choose clean. everything went smoothly (copyed all the files?) dont know about that because after every thing gets done and it tries to boot up win xp pro it goes to the booting screen and after that it goes to a black screen with a little white dot. i have no clue whats wrong can anybody help???? :mad:
Don the Con 0 Newbie Poster
kccomputerdr 0 Junior Poster
hello guys i just recently got a computer (gateway) and it was running win me. so i decided to upgrade it to win xp pro. it asked me if i wanted to do an upgrade or a clean install and i choose clean. everything went smoothly (copyed all the files?) dont know about that because after every thing gets done and it tries to boot up win xp pro it goes to the booting screen and after that it goes to a black screen with a little white dot. i have no clue whats wrong can anybody help???? :mad:
it may not have copied all the files. stick the cd & try booting off that & reloading windows. you may have to change settings in the cmos to be able to boot from a cd
oalee 53 cyberkill(ed) Team Colleague
just reboot off the XP CD, it should do all the dirty work for you (installing & formatting and all...) Prolly just a faulty installation...
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