I have been experiencing same problem for months now. The only workaround I found so far was using XP 64. It works fine and no problem at all. Every time I try to load XP, I get the balank screen. I tried ALL Drives.. SATA.. IDE.. SCSI Card SCSI disks...the fresh install works fine some times till I reboot. However, one thing I stress is for me, this problem started after I upgraded my processors from Opteron 250 to Opteron 275. So I thought IWill didn't have good support for this processor and was causing, eventhough I updated to their latest BIOS that clearly says supports 275. Below is my post from AMD fourms website. See if someone can help me, which I doubt would be successfull.
I have never seen this. My Dual Core Opteron 275 was working fine for few days. After I rebooted by computer, it won't load windows XP and I have a green light on monitor but nohting on the screen. After 15 minutes I recycled the power, it said"XP did not load normally, do you want to start Safe mode". I wanted to start in safe mode, then same thing once the OS Menu goes, does not load windows. I ran Setup thinking something wrong, and choose the option to Repair the installation after it detected the System FIles folder, it copied the installation files and when it came time to reboot to start Windows XP installation from windows mode. IT got stuck on the black screen again. No windows installation. I thought there might be problem with the systems files. So I started a Fresh install and even formatted the HDD, it formatted fine and copied files then when it came to load windows or run the windows part of setup it would stay in black screen. Here's all i tried:
Things tried so far to fix the system boot problem:
-Tried to reinstall operating system by formatting HDD
-Replaced Video Card with MSI 8x Graphics card
-Replaced HDD with ATA HDD and tried to install OS, but does not go past DOS installation screen. Also, tried installing SCSI card and SCSI disks.
-Replaced Memory with other Memory tried 1 Memory chip, and 2 diferent chips
- Reset BIOS from Jumper
- Removed the PCI NIC and removed changed Keyboard/Mouse/monitor/CD Drive
- Tried to install Windows 2003, still does not go past the dos screen.
- One Amazing thing is, When I had this problem on IDE drive. I removed the drive and hooked up to a different system as Primary drive and was able to boot to XP on that system. When I brought back to this system, same problem.
SO I tried to install XP - didn't work, so to make sure it is not the CD, i tried to install 2003 same problem.
My computer specs are:
Motherboard: IWill DK8N
Bios: lates V11
CPU: Dual Core Opteron 275 (single processor)
Mem: CorSair 2 GB CAS 2.0 2-3-2-6 3200
Video: ATI AIW x800 Pro (tried other card too from MSI)
All PCI Slots Empty.
The above configuration was working fine for few days, when I rebooted the problem started.
Your Help would be highly appreciated and Thanks in advance!