XP Installation Problem

[Phil Watson]

I have tried to install XP Pro at least 10 times onto a
formatted SATA hard drive but each time it has crashed.
After each crash I have reformatted the drive to allow a
clean installation. Promise Fasttrack drivers for XP are
the latest available.Installation finally reached the
point where the final temp files were removed. The
progress bar disappeared and the screen went blue.
Immediately afterwards the screen went black and the
computer restarted. A screen appeared saying windows did
not start succesfully and giving various methods of trying
to run in safe modes,normally or last known configuration
that worked. Chosing any of these options brings up the XP
screen but the moving icon is not present and after a
couple of seconds the screen disappears and the computer
restarts.

Asus P4PE
1024 mb RAM
Seagate SATA drive
ATI Radeon 9000 All in Wonder

PLEASE HELP as I have been trying to get this working for
the last 5 days.

 

[Rich Barry]

Phil, do you have Virus protection disabled in the Bios ?

 

[Gerald Thompson]

Check the CPU bus speed setting. Initially, I had JP2 in a
L4VXA2 motherboard (Celeron 2.66 GHz CPU, 400 MHz FSB) set
to 'Auto' - changed it to '533'. When I firast 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.