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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


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simonbrock

 

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Being that you have done everything humanly possible to eleminate the
problem, to include the swapping of ram, I would suspect the CPU. Is it a
Celeron? I only ask this because these chips are known for slowly "baking up"
until they just give up the ghost--freezing the machine; something Intel does
not publicize. It's worth a try, anyway.

"simonbrock" wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
> --
> simonbrock
>

 

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Dearest Simon
You are hijacking someone elses post.
Please start your own post by retyping or copy and pasting and then clicking
NEW POST.
This post was answered and is death..........no one will see yours
peterk


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"simonbrock" <simonbrock.1v0idp@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
news:simonbrock.1v0idp@pcbanter.net...
>
> 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
>
>
> --
> simonbrock