trouble installing xp

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I have a pc that has been running on Windows ME. This was
preloaded when i bought it and i just have a system
recovery disc. I put a new hard drive in and decided to
load windows XP pro. However, after loading windows files
onto the newly formatted disc, the pc gets to the stage
where it in the bottom left corner 'windows is starting
up' the pc just freezes. I have tried both XP Pro and a
XP Home that i know both work and i get the same story
with each.

The PC is athlon xp1300 and it has 256 mb of sdram..

It is not the hard disk as i can get the old system disk
to load windows me on to it.

Any suggestions/answers greatly appreciated.

thanks

Jim
 
jim said:
I have a pc that has been running on Windows ME. This was
preloaded when i bought it and i just have a system
recovery disc. I put a new hard drive in and decided to
load windows XP pro. However, after loading windows files
onto the newly formatted disc, the pc gets to the stage
where it in the bottom left corner 'windows is starting
up' the pc just freezes. I have tried both XP Pro and a
XP Home that i know both work and i get the same story
with each.

The PC is athlon xp1300 and it has 256 mb of sdram..

It is not the hard disk as i can get the old system disk
to load windows me on to it.
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XP is a lot fussier about the hardware on which it runs. When
installations of MS operating systems fail, it is usually due to faulty
hardware, with the RAM being the first suspect. Do a RAM test.

Malke
 
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