Can't get XP to reload

[DaveyMac]

Obtain a Used CPU. HP 532w 1.7g celeron w 512meg of 2700 DDR. It had a
virus (some sort of back door GW Trojan). I bought a new hd and a copy
of XP home upgrade. I can only get windows to copy install files to 12%,
then it just quits. After I authenticate it with a full copy of 98SE.

With both memory chips, I can't even get it to load that far, so when I
take one or the other out or move to other slot (there are 2) it will
load to 12 or 13%.

What do you guys think ? Bad MB or Processor chip???
Thanks in advance,
Dave

 

[Delwin Lee [MSFT]]

You can try using a memory tester to rule out a memory problem:

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp