I burned the ISO image onto a disc using Nero, when I went to boot up my computer, I got a message when it started to boot from CD

"EM386: warning: Address line A20 already enabled"

Anyone have any idea what this is? I thought maybe I got a bad DL or burn, so I redownloaded and reburned and still same message. Anyone know?

Thanks

ISO of what? x64? Is this an RC version or final? If RC, try downloading the trial version from MS instead. If final...tsk, tsk.

I burned all the files of XP64 from the trial download. I just downloaded it today, so I guess the final. I don't know.

If it matters...
ABit mobo
AMD Athlon 64 3000
1Gig OCZ PC3200 (2x512k)
ATI 9800pro
Sound Audigy Platinum
Maxtor 160/80/80 Hard drives
Sony DVD/RW

Hmm, that's odd indeed. What's your hardware specs? RAM? CPU? MoBo? etc.

ABit NF8 mobo
AMD Athlon 64 3000
1Gig OCZ PC3200 (2x512k)
ATI 9800pro
Sound Audigy Platinum
Maxtor 160/80/80 Hard drives
Sony DVD/RW

How did you burn it? In nero all you need to do is choose your recorder.
Click on the recorder menu and choose burn image. Then brouse to the iso
file. I always check off finalise CD when I burn an iso too.
It sound like you burned it as bootable cd using 1.44MB Dos floppy
emulation.

I think I did make a bootable disc. When I try to "burn image" it won't allow me to. Will it work if I just "make a data disc" and copy all the files?

No, a data disc wont work. What error do you see when you try to burn
an image. When you say all the files, how many do you mean? There
should only be one, the about 600MB iso file which is an image of the
CD your tring to burn. If you extracted the files from the iso to burn
them to a CD that wasn't needed. You can burn them to a bootable CD
but you would need the proper boot image, which you can extract from
an bootable XP CD using isobuster or similar program. But it's much
easier to just burn the iso file to CD using burn image function in
Nero.

when I downloaded I got a .zip file, when opened there were a bunch of file to be extracted...should I not have opened the .zip file?

Where did you download this from?

Where did you get this file? Anyway it's not the right one. The correct file is found here http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/e...tion/trial.mspx

If you are using WinRAR, then the ISO file will appear to be an archive, which might have led timidbull to believe it's a zip file.

Hmmm, I am using Winrar, and it does appear to be an archive. So I just take that file and burn that file to the disk instead of opening it?

Also when I use Nero to burn an image, the file I downloaded does not even show up as a compliant nero image file. I downloaded it from the Microsoft win64 trial software page. Do I need to get winrar to stop associating itself with it?

When you start nero exit the new compilation if it comes up.
Then click on the record menu at the top and choose burn image.
You can click on filetypes but I think it should allready be set
to image files. Is your computer set to show extentions if its
not maybe thats the problem. What is the name of the file?
it should end in .iso
To show extentions open my computer click on tools then view
and uncheck hide extentions of known files types.
Click apply then click apply this to all folders and click ok.

AHA!!! Got it. Thanks for the help everyone. Between all of your help and suggestions I got it figured out.

It was being recognized by WinRAR, so I mistook it for a .zip file. Then I realized I had both tried to burn a "bootable disc" and the files I had opened from the mistaken .zip file. I finally located the .iso file when trying to burn image.

Finally got it to work!!!


WOOOHOOOHOOOO!!

Thanks again