Installation freezes

[Gordon Graham]

I am tring to install XP and it always freezes after reboot when it says
there is between 34 - 39 minutes left. Funny thing is that it doesn't always
freeze at the same time.

I have tried:

- doing a clean install on a newly formatted disk drive
- installing Windows ME and trying to do an upgrade install

Help!!! This is really frustrating.

Thx.

 

[WinGuy]

I am tring to install XP and it always freezes after reboot when it says
there is between 34 - 39 minutes left. Funny thing is that it doesn't always
freeze at the same time.

I have tried:

- doing a clean install on a newly formatted disk drive
- installing Windows ME and trying to do an upgrade install

Help!!! This is really frustrating.

Thx.

If it's an older computer (one that had ME?) then it just might not really
be froze and maybe you're too impatient. Just because there's no HDD
activity doesn't mean the CPU isn't chugging along trying to figure things
out (especially when it comes to the hardware issues).

On the other hand, maybe you have a hardware or software driver upgrade
issue. Re-install ME again, and then what does this MS program advise you
about upgrading to XP? Anything that's a show stopper?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/upgrading/advisor.mspx
(that's a 30meg download)

 

[lvee]

Read the article supplied in the link below.,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828267&Product=winxp

 

[WinGuy]

Ok, I did. Kind of verifies what I suggested below as possible, a potential
hardware issue. Or more precisely, a driver issue. Did you find out what it
was, then? The article might indeed help in your detective hunt and it's
very good, but since you have the old ME CD that came with it -- why not do
that and then run that 30meg+ util I mentioned and let it just tell you
exactly what problems exist? Seems a lot less effort that way - but not as
rewarding as the hunt!