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XP install and IBM Rescue and Recovery freeze on IBM ThinkCentre after the &quot;inspecting system hardware&quot; message. After the message appears momentarily, the screen goes black with no more indication of progress on screen or cdrom or HDD lights. <br />
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I currently have CentOS 5 Xen server installed on this machine. I sense this is root of the problem. I can boot to a Ubuntu disk with no problems but XP is showing no love. <br />
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Any help would be appreciated.
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XP install and IBM Rescue and Recovery freeze on IBM ThinkCentre after the "inspecting system hardware" message. After the message appears momentarily, the screen goes black with no more indication of progress on screen or cdrom or HDD lights. 

I currently have CentOS 5 Xen server installed on this machine. I sense this is root of the problem. I can boot to a Ubuntu disk with no problems but XP is showing no love. 

Any help would be appreciated.

cannot install xp, freezes after &quot;inspecting system hardware&quot;, current OS is CentOS 5 Xen

XP install and IBM Rescue and Recovery freeze on IBM ThinkCentre after the &quot;inspecting system hardware&quot; message. After the message appears momentarily, the screen goes black with no more indication of progress on screen or cdrom or HDD lights. 

I currently have CentOS 5 Xen server installed on this machine. I sense this is root of the problem. I can boot to a Ubuntu disk with no problems but XP is showing no love. 

Any help would be appreciated.

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cannot install xp, freezes after &quot;inspecting system hardware&quot;, current OS is CentOS 5 Xen

cannot install xp, freezes after "inspecting system hardware", current OS is CentOS 5 Xen