Jiri??? 3.8.80 Installation Hangs in XP

Newbie Joined: Feb 06, 2005 Posts: 4 Location: USA

I'm trying to upgrade to 3.8.80 and the installation hangs when there is a blue screen with a list of games. There is no hard drive activity and no button to click on... there is no dialogue box at all.

I can't log on because of the old version and I have downloaded 3.8.80 twice, one time from each server.

Is anyone else having problems upgrading to 3.8.80?

Help?????

Old HL client: 3.7.74
Trying to upgrade to: 3.8.80

System:
WinXP Home
AMD XP2000+
KT3 Ultra 2 Main Board with Via KT333 chip set
512 DDR RAM
ATI AIW 8500 with 128M Ram

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OLD Verify file from 3.7.74:

Win NT: 5.1.A28 - Service Pack 1
hlpro.exe 3.7.0.74
aping.exe 1.0.0.16
dexec.exe 1.0.0.5
mswinsck.ocx 6.0.88.4
msvbvm50.dll 5.2.82.44
asycfilt.dll 3.50.5014.0
comcat.dll 5.0.2600.1
ctl3d.dll No Version Info available!
ctl3dnt.dll No Version Info available!
oleaut32.dll 3.50.5016.0
olepro32.dll 5.0.5014.0
stdole2.tlb 3.50.5014.0

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Thanks,

OG_Vorlin

Newbie Joined: Feb 06, 2005 Posts: 4 Location: USA

I wish I could say more but the new install doesn't create any verification file. I tried uninstalling 3.7.74 and doing a fresh intall with 3.8.80 and the only thing that's different is that now it doesn't ask me if I want to upgrade. It goes straight to the blue splash screen that lists the supported programs, then does nothing.

I've tried using both files, one from each server that's listed. The result is the same.

Help! I lost all of Saturday night's flying time and it looks like I'm about to loose Sunday too.

OG_Vorlin

Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 1:34 pm

Hello

I got the same result when i have enabled multiple monitor support in windows XP. For some unknown reason the instalation dialog pop on the second monitor...

Newbie Joined: Feb 06, 2005 Posts: 4 Location: USA

Jiri,

Ok, new information for you. I think it's not multiple monitors, but multiple video cards.

I have both ATI 8500 AIW and ATI 7200 AIW (QL & QD versions) installed because I was having problems with Linux on the 8500 (QL).

I am only using the 8500 in XP, unless XP automatically configured the 7200. So, I am not trying to use the 7200 (QD) in XP.

But you said that you see this with multiple monitors and I do have multiple video cards, but I am only using one. So, I think this problem is not because of configured multiple monitors, but it is because there are multiple video cards.

I will try to take out the 7200 today and maybe this will help.

Thanks Jiri!

OG_Vorlin

Newbie Joined: Feb 06, 2005 Posts: 4 Location: USA

Jiri, you were correct. I removed the old ATI video card and everything worked as normal.

So, if there are 2 video cards and you run XP, this can happen.

Thanks!

OG_Vorlin