Windows Xp keeps restarting during installing!

[vfx]

I got 2.0ghz 400fsb and IT7MAX.

Windows xp keeps robooting itself during setup. After finish copying the "essensial files" to hard drive. It restarts and then keeps repeating restarts itself.

can you list what are the possible problems are?

The CD is fine. The hard drive is fine. I tried to laod BIOS as default and optimized. I replace different power supply unit with Pen4 compatible one. I use Thermaltake Volcano 7+, so it is pretty cool. None of these working.

I also has another max2v2 system with 2.8ghz 533fsb and it installs win xp just fine. I tried to use this harddrive to install on the 2.0ghz system and it still reboots but works on 2.8ghz. Don't know what the problem is.

I wonder if it is the fSb or the chip problem or the memory setting in the BIOS. I have Crucial DDR266 memory with 256 and 512 stick.


I also bought another Biostar board just to see if it works. It gives me the same problem. Can't install win xp. It keeps restarting during setup. Still don't know what cause the system instability.

 

[Ark]

After copying complete don't boot from CD, boot from HD and it will ask for CD when needed.

 

[Tromos]

*nod* What Ark said. It sounds like you set up the BIOS to boot from CD for the XP installation. That's fine. But after the driver and file load step, when it goes to reboot, you need to interrupt it and switch the first boot device to something other than your CD drive (floppy or HDD-0). The point is, after that reboot and from here on out, you want your system to boot from the hard disk. Leave the WinXP CD in your drive, though, because it is still needed for the rest of the install.

 

[mboy]

I doubt that is the issue. even if u leave the CD in, u still have to press a key to boot from CD and if u dont touch it, it will go into the HD and continue the install. My guess would be bad stick of ram 1st and then bad CPU after that.

Try removing 1 stick at a time of the ram and see if that does it. 1st, dump the 256k stick and try, if same prob, replace the 512 with the 256k stick.