Failure to install XP - please help

[monkeyleader]

Hey,

Wanted to install xp on my system but am getting increasingly frustrated with the install. It gets so far through, just after the first reboot [after collecting some information] and then just hangs. Ive tried an upgrade from win2k, and also formatting the disk and going from scratch - still no joy

Any ideas ?

thanks,

monkey

[beeboy]

Here are a couple good threads from earlier posts concerning overheating, bios settings, and pay close attention to onesickpuppy's post. Hope these help.
http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com...tall+ windows
http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com...tall+ windows

[Rally]

Just a quick note.
Microsoft is not going to like this but fact is that XP has some serious issues with some of the hardware installed in a pc.
I build enough of them to know that I have had problems with Video Cards, Network Cards and Modems.
It would just hang up as you described and after removing the hardware it would go and boot up just fine. The freaky thing though is that the same Hardware would work in a different Machine.
Maybe that will help!

[monkeyleader]

thanks for the replies - as I thought however its something weird in my hardware thats going to be causing this. I mean win98, win2k all work fine - no problems. Ive got an the following hardware

- Abit Kt7a motherboard (via chipset)
- AMD chip running at 14000mhz
- Elsa gladiac 511 64mb graphics card
- 1 512mb memory stick

Im thinking of ripping a standard graphics card out another system and giving this a whirl.

I guess this will tell me if its motherboad or graphics, or more than likley will tell me nothing at all.

windows

monkey

[monkeyleader]

Hi,

Im still having these problems, but I went out and got myself a new graphics card - this time a GeFroce 4 Ti 4800 SE - this time it crashes at the same point of install, but instead of just hanging it now reboots - does this shed any light on things ?

ta

[zen2002]

Assuming your hardware is compatible with XP

If you have an upgrade disc (XP) make sure you have an origional Win 98/2k disc.

The best way to install XP is a clean install

Using FDISK format your drive
Reboot (leave the floppy in drive)
At prompt type fdisk /mbr (note the space between fdisk and /)
remove floppy
Reboot
put in XP disc
Install