Windows XP freezes during setup.

[sbowne]

I have a problem where Windows XP will freeze during the setup. Sometimes it will do it right at the welcome screen, agreement, partitioning, or during formatting. Any ideas as to what might be wrong? It's an AMD Ahtlon XP +1800/AK32 Shuttle Motherboard/512mb ddr ram/40gb hd/15gb hd/52x cd-rom

shawn

 

[EeyoreX]

If you can, try a different stick of RAM. Especially if these are blue screen errors. Often times these are a sign of a bad stick or RAM. Good luck, let us know if that helps, and welcome to the board!

\Dan

 

[wjsulliv]

Take everything out but the bare necessities.

I.e. MB, CPU, 1 stick of RAM, HD, CD-Rom, Video Card.

If that fails you've got a problem. If that works then on of your additional parts is causing a conflict.

 

[lorinser75]

You might want to try changing the memory settings in BIOS from HCLK to SPD, and input your memory setting manually.

This helped me before when I had problems installing Windows 2000 Pro.

Hope that helps.

 

[snidy1]

Originally posted by: lorinser75
You might want to try changing the memory settings in BIOS from HCLK to SPD, and input your memory setting manually.

This helped me before when I had problems installing Windows 2000 Pro.

Hope that helps.

Try that and change it back after install.

 

[RevoluChe]

I had the same problem happening to my about 20 times when installing WinXP on my old system. It always stuck at the same spot though, the actual copying of system files. It turned out that my HDD was faulty. I put another HDD in there and it installed just fine. Funny thing is, I am still using the "bad" HDD as a second disk and its working. Weird. But anyways, if your harddrive is old, that might be the cause. If your CD-ROM drive is old, that could also be the cause.