familyman01
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First the question, then the events that lead up to it.
I am able to boot to disc by pressing any key, however, I am NOT able to press enter to install XP over an install of Win7. How do I get around this? My keyboard, either using USB or an adapter to PS/2, just goes dead after I boot into disc and the XP install screen comes up. IE: Press enter to install, F3 to quit, R to repair, my keyboard just goes non functional.
Google kept answering the wrong question, so I came here, long time user, but I haven't used this site from like three email account ago.... hence the new username and non existent post count.
USB keyboard/legacy support is enabled in the BIOS.
Boot to CD/DVD is obviously checked because I can boot to disc.
Google tells me to format because obviously you can't just plain old downgrade windows, however, I cannot even get that far. I plan on formatting anyway.
Google says SATA drivers are to blame, I don't have SATA, this is an old PC that I just wanted to see if Win7 would work on, however, Radeon HD legacy drivers for my AGP HD3650 do not work (no matter how many people say they will) with Win 7, so this is why I want to go back to XP.
I am fairly fluent in PC's, been building desktops and working on software and networking for over 15 years. This has me stumped. I'm assuming it's something so amazingly simple that I just look past it.
Right now it's Win 7 x86 starter (to keep the bloating to a minimum).
Old circa 2002 sony vaio, upgraded HD3650, upgraded 3.4gz pentium. otherwise stock/oem. New thermal paste, entire PC gutted, cleaned and reassembled.
Harddrive is fine, i've had XP and Win 7 on this many times before while playing around with it. I've had to go back and forth between OS's when I found out first that my old wifi card couldn't handle Win7, then went back to XP, found out wifi card can't even cope with my modern router, it's been replaced and the new one works fine, so I attempted to go back to Win 7 and now I find out that AMD catalyst installs but just doesn't, well, work. Never had a problem before going back to XP, but this issue is new and I'm scratching my head.
Thank you guys in advance.
I am able to boot to disc by pressing any key, however, I am NOT able to press enter to install XP over an install of Win7. How do I get around this? My keyboard, either using USB or an adapter to PS/2, just goes dead after I boot into disc and the XP install screen comes up. IE: Press enter to install, F3 to quit, R to repair, my keyboard just goes non functional.
Google kept answering the wrong question, so I came here, long time user, but I haven't used this site from like three email account ago.... hence the new username and non existent post count.
USB keyboard/legacy support is enabled in the BIOS.
Boot to CD/DVD is obviously checked because I can boot to disc.
Google tells me to format because obviously you can't just plain old downgrade windows, however, I cannot even get that far. I plan on formatting anyway.
Google says SATA drivers are to blame, I don't have SATA, this is an old PC that I just wanted to see if Win7 would work on, however, Radeon HD legacy drivers for my AGP HD3650 do not work (no matter how many people say they will) with Win 7, so this is why I want to go back to XP.
I am fairly fluent in PC's, been building desktops and working on software and networking for over 15 years. This has me stumped. I'm assuming it's something so amazingly simple that I just look past it.
Right now it's Win 7 x86 starter (to keep the bloating to a minimum).
Old circa 2002 sony vaio, upgraded HD3650, upgraded 3.4gz pentium. otherwise stock/oem. New thermal paste, entire PC gutted, cleaned and reassembled.
Harddrive is fine, i've had XP and Win 7 on this many times before while playing around with it. I've had to go back and forth between OS's when I found out first that my old wifi card couldn't handle Win7, then went back to XP, found out wifi card can't even cope with my modern router, it's been replaced and the new one works fine, so I attempted to go back to Win 7 and now I find out that AMD catalyst installs but just doesn't, well, work. Never had a problem before going back to XP, but this issue is new and I'm scratching my head.
Thank you guys in advance.