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simonbrock
Ok here goes, about 3 weeks ago my internet was going very slow and i
though i had a virus or something so i decided to do a clean install of
windows XP Home. But everytime i tried to install it, it got as far as
copying the installation files and then freezing. So after 6 attempts i
give up and tried to install windows 98. but guess waht this didnjt work
either so i come to the conclusion it must be the harddrive. I removed
the Seatgate harddrive and placed it into my bros computer and windows
XP installed first time with no problems at all, it loaded up fine on
his computer so i assumed it was sorted. I then removed the harddrive
and placed it back into my computer and when windows went to start it
froze when the little white bar at the bottom got full.
So i took a guess at the RAM and took each stick of ram out once at a
time and still had the same problem. I the decided to remove eveything
possible, network card, cd rom, dvd drive, floppy drive, sound card, and
internal modem. I checked my bios settings and made sure that
everything was correct and that it was booting from the IDE-0 option.
Same problem tho, still freezes onb startup.
Please help cos i have now spent almost a week trying everything
possible but to no avail.
Please could you suggest any other options,m i cant understand why 1
minute it works but the next it doesnt and obviously the hard drive is
fine as it works on other computers!
Thanks for any help you can provide
though i had a virus or something so i decided to do a clean install of
windows XP Home. But everytime i tried to install it, it got as far as
copying the installation files and then freezing. So after 6 attempts i
give up and tried to install windows 98. but guess waht this didnjt work
either so i come to the conclusion it must be the harddrive. I removed
the Seatgate harddrive and placed it into my bros computer and windows
XP installed first time with no problems at all, it loaded up fine on
his computer so i assumed it was sorted. I then removed the harddrive
and placed it back into my computer and when windows went to start it
froze when the little white bar at the bottom got full.
So i took a guess at the RAM and took each stick of ram out once at a
time and still had the same problem. I the decided to remove eveything
possible, network card, cd rom, dvd drive, floppy drive, sound card, and
internal modem. I checked my bios settings and made sure that
everything was correct and that it was booting from the IDE-0 option.
Same problem tho, still freezes onb startup.
Please help cos i have now spent almost a week trying everything
possible but to no avail.
Please could you suggest any other options,m i cant understand why 1
minute it works but the next it doesnt and obviously the hard drive is
fine as it works on other computers!
Thanks for any help you can provide