Win XP hangs / stalls at 34 minutes remaining

[Carl Uman]

While installing WinXP on a Dell (replacing bad hard drive) it would stop at 34 minutes remaining. The little light bar still went and the messages would keep cycling but nothing else. I found that if I unpluged the USB mouse everything would work fine.

This was my first experience with this problem even though I've installed WinXP a good number of times and on machines that used USB mice.

 

[hclarkjr]

i had similar problem at the 34 minute too but mine turned out to be bad soundcard. i pulled it out and install went fine after that. i would assume that is the part of the install where it installs devices and any that are bad are going to stop the install. just a guess though

 

[Slogun]

Very interesting...I was helping a neighbor with his Dell last week. I tried doing a Windows repair install and it hung at 34 mins. The thing wouldn't boot at all after that and had to reformat.

 

[loup garou]

I've had the same problem with eMachines with USB cardreaders. I've got hundreds of Dells with USB mice and haven't experienced that problem, though.

 

[Lepard]

Originally posted by: hclarkjr
i had similar problem at the 34 minute too but mine turned out to be bad soundcard. i pulled it out and install went fine after that. i would assume that is the part of the install where it installs devices and any that are bad are going to stop the install. just a guess though

this exact thing happened to me.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: Carl Uman
While installing WinXP on a Dell (replacing bad hard drive) it would stop at 34 minutes remaining. The little light bar still went and the messages would keep cycling but nothing else. I found that if I unpluged the USB mouse everything would work fine.

This was my first experience with this problem even though I've installed WinXP a good number of times and on machines that used USB mice.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828267

Google is your friend. "34 minutes xp install" found this in under a minute.