I'm trying it one more time, but meanwhile I"ll put the question out there: here's the deal, I'm giving my dad my old intel p4 computer, I think 1G ram, new 80 gig sata drive that I put a bridge on to make ide for the old MB, a Gigabyte RZ series, there's a 3DForce4 MX440-8X video card, one cd rom is connected, well one I pulled the power cord out so it wouldn't be running, there was another memory stick in there with another 256, but I pulled that out. The old floppy is there still. No other HDDs at the moment. I got the oem disk from like ebay or something, I'm not sure, it was sealed and all, looks authentic to me, has key code on a label, has instruction booklet, looks like real deal.
So I'm just baffled why when it is supposed to move onto phase 2 of the install, it goes back to the beginning steps as though nothing had just happened the last 40 minutes. I don't know why win xp takes forever too, I just got win7 loaded on my new computer and it was like loaded regular program, it seemed like 5 minutes or so, now after more than 3 hours I still can't get freaking xp to load on my old computer for my Dad! GRRRR!
So I'm just baffled why when it is supposed to move onto phase 2 of the install, it goes back to the beginning steps as though nothing had just happened the last 40 minutes. I don't know why win xp takes forever too, I just got win7 loaded on my new computer and it was like loaded regular program, it seemed like 5 minutes or so, now after more than 3 hours I still can't get freaking xp to load on my old computer for my Dad! GRRRR!