Over the past month I've made several hardware changes (new power supply, New main board, new CPU) only to find out that my recovery disk from the manufacturer will not work with the hardware changes. So I bought a new copy of home XP. Installation starts out fine but gets stuck. I gets stuck with a blue screen. At the top it says "Windows Setup". At the bottom it says"Setup is booting windows." I let it sit like that for hours but nothing happens. I called XP support. They said it sounds like a hardware problem.
Windows gets stuck...HELP
- Thread starter kurnlor
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evlogiaandchari
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You'd have to be more specific about Microsoft's assitance. I'm sure they'd be more supportive if you purchased their product... What else did they say? What was their final resoultion/conclusion for you?
Camper
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At that stage of the install Widows is being loaded into ram. I would try placing your ram in a different ram slot or try a different CD-Rom drive. It also could be your CPU is overheating. Make sure you have thermal past on the bottom of the heatsink and make sure it is attached correctly. Also remove any hardware that is not needed for booting a computer. You should have a video card, hard drive, keyboard, and ram. Get rid of everything else.
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