I built the system. The bios sees the harddrive and ram. I don't get any
beeps and every thing says it is there. I have even exchanged the cd rom
thinking it was bad. It did the same thing. If the ram was bad that I
bought won't I get beeps at the start?

"Malke" wrote:

> taurell wrote:
>
> > My new system boots to the windows xp cd then It goes to the Windows
> > Setup
> > blue screen and just sets there? It won't go any futher. Any
> > suggestions on what is wrong.
> >
> > The CD Rom is set to mater and the harddrive all ready double
> > checked. I also used the 6 boot diskes for xp pro it does the same
> > thing.
> > I can put the cd in another system and it runs perfectly. I'm running
> > out of options
> >
> > HELP!
>
> If the installation doesn't even start, you have some hardware failure.
> You haven't provided any information about your computer, so it is
> impossible to be specific. However, operating system installation
> failures are most often caused by faulty hardware. It doesn't matter if
> the computer is new; in fact if hardware is going to fail it usually
> will do so right away or go for years. If you built the computer
> yourself, you may have done something wrong or gotten some bad RAM. If
> you didn't build the system yourself and just bought a barebones
> computer, take it back to where you got it.
>
> Test the RAM, hard drive, and power supply. Post back with more details
> about the system if you need more help.
>
> Malke
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