PC Powers off Durring XP Setup... Help plzz

dannaswolcott · 12-30-2006, 07:12 AM

Hey all!
I got a motherbord Here that likes to reboot or the system will turn off while trying to install windows XP or windows 2000. It has an Athlon XP 1.3ghz CPU. 256mb DDR ram. Anyway i go to install windows XP, i boot from cd and it starts loading setup. When it says "Setup is stating windows" my pc's hard drive stops spining and the pc turns off. I got NO idea why it does this. I installed windows ME on the system and ME installed and ran fine. I even tryed upgradeing from ME to XP and it still turns off when i go to run the XP setup. IT does the same thing with windows 2000. Ill go to start the setup of windows 2000 and the system turns off. But windows 98 and windows ME seam to run fine. What is causeing this? I tryed flashing the bios and resetting the bios. I also tried a different PSU and an different Hard drive. Even different memory... Any ideas on what to do? Mother bord about 1 year old

PC eye · 01-01-2007, 03:57 AM

Two identical threads! Please respond at Abit Motherbord issue. Windows xp wont install?

12-30-2006, 07:12 AM	#1 (permalink)
dannaswolcott Platinum Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: world of my own Age: 18 Posts: 651	PC Powers off Durring XP Setup... Help plzz Hey all! I got a motherbord Here that likes to reboot or the system will turn off while trying to install windows XP or windows 2000. It has an Athlon XP 1.3ghz CPU. 256mb DDR ram. Anyway i go to install windows XP, i boot from cd and it starts loading setup. When it says "Setup is stating windows" my pc's hard drive stops spining and the pc turns off. I got NO idea why it does this. I installed windows ME on the system and ME installed and ran fine. I even tryed upgradeing from ME to XP and it still turns off when i go to run the XP setup. IT does the same thing with windows 2000. Ill go to start the setup of windows 2000 and the system turns off. But windows 98 and windows ME seam to run fine. What is causeing this? I tryed flashing the bios and resetting the bios. I also tried a different PSU and an different Hard drive. Even different memory... Any ideas on what to do? Mother bord about 1 year old __________________ Gateway NV52 Laptop: AMD Athlon X2 2.1ghz Dual Core, 4GB DDR2 Ram, 320GB HD, ATI Radeon 3200 HD, Wireless N, Win VISTA Pre 64-Bit, DVD-RW, Webcam & Mic. Custom Built Desktop, Intel Pentium Dual Core 2ghz OC to 3ghz, 720gb HD, Win VISTA x64bit 500W PSU, 512mb Video Card, 4gb ram DVD-RW (Aug 08)Toshiba Satellite A135-S7406 Laptop, Celeron M 1.73ghz, 2GB DDR2 Ram, 80GB Hard Drive, DVD-RW, Windows VISTA(Dec 17th 2007) Road Runner Turbo, Linksys Wireless N My Website

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01-01-2007, 03:57 AM	#2 (permalink)
PC eye banned Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 21,091	Two identical threads! Please respond at Abit Motherbord issue. Windows xp wont install?