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installing xp brings a blue screen

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yuho

Flightless Bird
i recently bought an hp compaq nc 4000 laptop from my work place
having 512 mb of ram, 60 gb of hdd and 1.4ghz of processor speed running
windows 2000.
bought an oiginal cd of xp professional since i find xp far much better.
Now when i boot from the cd and the laptop loads files, after loading files
like FAT and NTFS
, a blue screen appears reading "windows has stopped ..... to prevent your
computer from damage. check for viruses, hdd drivers ...." and stop there
until you manually shut the laptop down.
I check for BIOS setting but it has no setting for HDD, the ram works well
in win2000.
Any body with am idea plizzzz help
 
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Mark Adams

Flightless Bird
"yuho" wrote:

> i recently bought an hp compaq nc 4000 laptop from my work place
> having 512 mb of ram, 60 gb of hdd and 1.4ghz of processor speed running
> windows 2000.
> bought an oiginal cd of xp professional since i find xp far much better.
> Now when i boot from the cd and the laptop loads files, after loading files
> like FAT and NTFS
> , a blue screen appears reading "windows has stopped ..... to prevent your
> computer from damage. check for viruses, hdd drivers ...." and stop there
> until you manually shut the laptop down.
> I check for BIOS setting but it has no setting for HDD, the ram works well
> in win2000.
> Any body with am idea plizzzz help


Follow these instructions, courtesy of Michael Stevens:

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
 
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PA Bear [MS MVP]

Flightless Bird
Did you format the HDD first?

yuho wrote:
> i recently bought an hp compaq nc 4000 laptop from my work place
> having 512 mb of ram, 60 gb of hdd and 1.4ghz of processor speed running
> windows 2000.
> bought an oiginal cd of xp professional since i find xp far much better.
> Now when i boot from the cd and the laptop loads files, after loading
> files
> like FAT and NTFS
> , a blue screen appears reading "windows has stopped ..... to prevent your
> computer from damage. check for viruses, hdd drivers ...." and stop there
> until you manually shut the laptop down.
> I check for BIOS setting but it has no setting for HDD, the ram works well
> in win2000.
> Any body with am idea plizzzz help
 
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yuho

Flightless Bird
I did not even reach the level pressing f8 for license agreement
 
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