Windows XP Major Installation Catastrophe

[Guest]

Hopefully this is the correct place for a question like this.

Hardware Setup - Maxtor 60 Gb 5400 RPM hard drive
K7S5A Motherboard
Athlon XP 2000+ Processor (running at 1200 instead
of 1600 MHz)

Trying to install Windows XP Pro for a friend and Setup continually
terminates. Generally, it will come to the *Press Enter to install, R to
Repair, etc* screen and then it will reboot the computer - either before I
can hit enter, or immediately after. The furthest it's gotten in the last
50+ tries was to 2% formatting the file. Tried manually writing 0's to the
drive and then installing; did nothing. Tried different hard drives in it
too. On the last functional install - installed and used yesterday - had
severe problems connecting to microsoft update, or installing drivers for
sound controller. Please help if anyone can; something appears to be
severely wrong. Thanks for your time.
-MikeDH

 

[Danny Sanders]

It could be a bad chip on one memory stick.

You might go here and download a RAM test:
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

It *sounds* like you have a bad chip on a stick of memory and your computer
has problems reading/writing to this chip. It sounds like once it was able
to read/write to that chip but when it does the file held in memory area
gets corrupted.

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

 

[Gerhard Hofmann]

It could be a bad chip on one memory stick.

You might go here and download a RAM test:
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

Another good RAM checker that can be run from a bootable CD-ROM:
http://www.memtest.org

Regards
Gerhard