XP System Crashing on a Desktop

cohen

cohen

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Hi,

i have a desktop computer that was given to me by a friend and i was trying to set it up for my sister. Now i had to put a hard drive into the computer and it is a very good computer and the hard drive is working.

Now i go to install XP and i doesn't want to. Meaning that XP will load up and when it reboots and gets intot the installtion process at around the 39 mins it will freeze???

I'm not sure what is causing this.... now is it the ram that is causing this????

Could i pls have some help pls...

thanks :confused:

BY THE WAY - the specs below are my computer specs not the computer i'm trying to load specs
 
Does it freeze or crash/reboot? If it's freezing I doubt it is the ram. If it is crashing then it could be the ram, but it could also be heat related. At what point is it freezing? What does it say on the screen?
 
Well it reboots once copying files for xp.. then it goes into the installition screen for xp and just freezes... nothing happesn the bottom blocks the flash doesn't flash it just does nothing and will not continue to do anything..... it is like a program has frozen and you have to open it again and it has done it every time i have tryed to load xp onto the system

:confused:

nothing happens - it doesn't do or say anything the screen just stays there - would it be the video card freezing????? it doesn't have an on board video card it is a PCI card.
 
It sounds like it heats up to the point where it shuts down. Do all of the fans work and is there an excessive amount of dust inside? Air circulation is very important and if one fan isn't working it could cause problems.
 
I had this happen once on an install of XP. It turned out that the ram timings where wrong. The bios did not set them correctly and I had to manually set them. Look up your memory timings and make sure that in the bios that they are correct.

By the way, is this an asus motherboard?
 
Well:

All the fans are working. And it doesn't shut down it just freezes and won't do anything. My dad says it may be the ram... i'll try the Memtest86 and see if it works. But how would i change the memory settings in the bios... what would i have to change them to????

Also i'm not sure what the specs are for the computer being it's from a friend but i will try the memory.

Thanks

keep the help coming
 
i've found out what the problem was it was the ram because i got some off a friend and it is now working.
:)
 
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