XP Pro installation freezes on 32 minutes

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I have got a brand new copy of XP Pro which i was trying to install on a
brand new hard 200 gig hard disk. I partitioned the disk in three and
formated them with NTFS.

I started the XP Pro installation and it copied the files, started the
installation, came to the part where i have to enter all my details and key
and region settings which i did. It then continued installing windows.

It gets as far as Installing network and 32 minutes remaining but gets no
further. The ticker boxes on the right continue changing but however long i
leave it, it gets no further.

I have searched for others who have experienced these problems and some have
said that it is a problem with the network device, so i removed my NIC but i
get the same issue. I have also got a built in network card on the
motherboard which got fried during a lightning storm a few years ago. This is
not plugged in to the network but i am wondering if this is causing the
installation to stop.

Might this be the problem? If so, is there a way that i can change a setting
in the installation (perhaps with an unattended installation configuration
file) so that it skips the network setup part of the installation?

Thanks
Ben
 
It gets as far as Installing network and 32 minutes remaining but gets no
further. The ticker boxes on the right continue changing but however long i
leave it, it gets no further.

I have searched for others who have experienced these problems and some have
said that it is a problem with the network device, so i removed my NIC but i
get the same issue. I have also got a built in network card on the
motherboard which got fried during a lightning storm a few years ago. This is
not plugged in to the network but i am wondering if this is causing the
installation to stop.
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This issue was resolved by going into the BIOS and turning off the on board
network card which was damaged. Windows XP was then able to be installed
without any problems.

Ben
 
Dont know if this helps but what speed CDROM are you using. anything lower that 40x and I have found problems with it hanging. I placed a 52x CDRoM in and it workedfine. This has happened to me on a couple of occasions at my work with older computers. I know this is an old thread and maybe you have this fixed now.

regards

chris

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