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- Feb 25, 2002
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- Calgary AB Canada
Hi I'm having serious trouble installing winxp on my machine. (specs are in sig).
Ok so here is what I've got.
1)set computer to stock speeds
2)booted from the cd rom
3)windows setup starts (albiet very slowly like running on a 486)
4)finally get into the setup and it locks up everytime.
At this point I go back to my o/c'd settings and try steps 1-3 each play out exactly the same except instead of locking up it proceeds with the install.
5)I delete the old partitions and create new ones while formatting to ntfs
6)I set it to install. And it begins, about 45mins later it asks to reboot so I do.
7)I go back to boot from hd
8)It shows the winxp startup screen for about 5 minutes, then the screen goes black for about 5 more minutes, then the screen goes grey again for about 5 minutes, then it gets into the setup. It starts setting up, the installation has been going for 2 hours and I have no progress bar or anything it still says there are 39 mins left, but the text showing winxp features keeps cycling. I have tried this: Restarting, running stock, running mildly o/c, running full o/c (this seems to work the best) reformatted, tried fat32, tried ntfs, tried reinstalling, nothing is working. I have tried legal unactivated copies of both winxp home and winxp pro, both don't work. I'm going around the bend, xp is crap and it's making me long for winme again, I just wanna play doom3 darnit can someone help me?
Ok so here is what I've got.
1)set computer to stock speeds
2)booted from the cd rom
3)windows setup starts (albiet very slowly like running on a 486)
4)finally get into the setup and it locks up everytime.
At this point I go back to my o/c'd settings and try steps 1-3 each play out exactly the same except instead of locking up it proceeds with the install.
5)I delete the old partitions and create new ones while formatting to ntfs
6)I set it to install. And it begins, about 45mins later it asks to reboot so I do.
7)I go back to boot from hd
8)It shows the winxp startup screen for about 5 minutes, then the screen goes black for about 5 more minutes, then the screen goes grey again for about 5 minutes, then it gets into the setup. It starts setting up, the installation has been going for 2 hours and I have no progress bar or anything it still says there are 39 mins left, but the text showing winxp features keeps cycling. I have tried this: Restarting, running stock, running mildly o/c, running full o/c (this seems to work the best) reformatted, tried fat32, tried ntfs, tried reinstalling, nothing is working. I have tried legal unactivated copies of both winxp home and winxp pro, both don't work. I'm going around the bend, xp is crap and it's making me long for winme again, I just wanna play doom3 darnit can someone help me?