Comp keeps freezing, even during install

[Wilburn Wilkins]

So I built my bro's computer and it worked perfectly fine. The a day later I remembered to do the windows update(updated drivers and other things already)....well I updated online while the computer was automatically applying updates....so I'm guessing it tried to apply patches twice becuase after that point I kept getting random(often) freezes, sometimes at desktop, usually at the windows xp start up logo. Sometime blue screens of death even.

I tried to do system restore and that didn't work.
I tried to do a repair using the windows xp cd, and the thing freezes everytime during the process

I then decided to format the drive and reinstall windows. It formats the drive, but freezes during the install process...did this ten times in a row(brother kept trying while I was asleep).


AMD x2 3800+ AM2
Mobo Asus MSN-E AM2
Patriot pc6400 (800mhz) ram
76000 GT
Seagate barrucuda 320 gb, 16mb, 7200 RPM Hardrive
and a decent powersupply, I forgot the name, but I don't think it matters.


What should I do

 

[WildHorse]

I then decided to format the drive and reinstall windows. It formats the drive, but freezes during the install process.

Weird.

Maybe the Windows CD-ROM is bad? That's about the only thing I can think of, unless there's some problem with your CD drive reading the Windows installation CD.

So that'd indicate either (1) get a better CD, if yours looks scratched, or (2) carefully go over the CD-ROM drive's connections to make sure they're all right.

Last thing is, I vaguely remember discussion years ago that Microsoft had engineered something into the Windows XP CD-ROMs so they could only be used about 12 times and then they died. USeless after 12 uses. I don't remember the details.

If you have a legal WIndows XP CD-ROM, then if I were you I'd phone Microsoft's 800 number & ask them to verify the 12-use limit, & if true, ask them to trade your CD-ROM for a replacement disk, maybe one that includes SP2.