Win XP Pro Installation Hangs

[Garry Gramm]

Hello...

Can anyone please offer suggestion on how I can get past a
hang on installing windows XP?

Trying to install XP Pro on brand new PC.
MB: ASUS A7N8X-X
CPU: AMD AThlon XP2000+
RAM: 512 MB DDR 400 (samsung)
HDD: 80 GB Maxtor Diamond Max 9 IDE
Video: NVidea FX5200 TD128 8x AGP
Install gets to 23 minutes left then hangs. No HD activity
and no further progress on the progress bar.
Left it for a while but nothing. I have retried the
install several times, each time reforrmatting and startig
clean.
Progress bar is 2 9/16 inches long and all done except
last 5/16th of an inch. I guess its close!
Its in the 'installing windows' step 4 of 5.

Any help anyone can offer would be most appreciated. I
can't ask Microsft without a product code, and I can't get
the product code till I install the product!

Gee! what fun!

Thanks in advance.

Garry

 

[Craig]

I'd suggest new media. If that doesn't work, try and isolate the issue by
swapping out a different video card, different memory, different processor,
and different motherboard to isolate the issue.

I had a similar problem with an A7N8X-VM. My problem was DDR 400 memory
wasn't supported unless I bypassed the onboard video and used an AGP card.

 

[Guest]

You should try to disable all onboard devices i had a
smilar problem i would start the install and then it
would just hang and for some reason when I disabled all
the onboard devices everything was a ok.

Christian

 

[Gerald Thompson]

Check your bios: is L1/L2 cache enabled? If yes - If this
is a new computer/motherboard: Check the CPU bus speed
setting. Initially, the jumper (JP2) was set to 'Auto'
from the manufacturer (L4VXA2 P4 motherboard; Celeron 2.66
GHz CPU, 400 MHz FSB) Changed it to '533' (I'm running one
stick of 512 MB DDR RAM. When I first started XP and W2K
installs, I first had to disable L1/L2 cache which of
course is really slow, and after reboot re-enabled it -
still crashed. Resetting the mobo's bus speed corrected
the problem.
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