Issues installing XP....

[Harish]

Hey Guyz,

Thanks to everyone for help last night with my booting issue. Got that resolved, apparently the heatsink for the processor wasnt installed properly and therefore i was running into all sorts of trouble. I'm over that hurdle this time around but now i have another issue. I am trying to install Windows XP on this system. It goes through everything correctly and only in the last part where is says 'Saving....." it gives me the BSOD. Tried it twice and the same thing is happening!!

My config once again is
Ahtlon XP 1600+
MSI KG7N2-L
DDR PC2100 Crucial 256 MB - 32MB (for shared VGA)
20GB IBM 75GXP
8X Plextor Drive
(Everything else is onboard since this is the nforce2)

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! my temps are between 55- 60C just for reference

 

[Harish]

bump

 

[zephyrprime]

Hmmm....something's not kosher if a simple install like this is failing. Try running some diagnostics to verify that your system is stable. I suggest goldmem and CPUburn since they both can run from floppies.

What was the exact problem you were having with your heatsink before? Did you build this system yourself of did someone build it for you? Is this a second hand computer? I just noticed that you have the 75gxp which is notoriously unreliable. Might want to go to the hitachi website and get the diagnostic software for that drive (hitachi bought ibm's disk business a little while ago)

 

[MikeMike]

download memtest 86, and it will boot from there and it might be your ram, which is normally the problem with BSOD's on XP installs