I got one of my father-in-laws old computers. It is a hp pavilion xt948, when I got it home I noticed that it doesn't have a hard drive, i took one out of my old computer and started it up. It went through most of the boot untill it got to the xp logo and it then when to the blue screen for a SPLIT second, and went to the screen to boot under safe mode or normal. I tried to do safe mode but it did the same THING. I even tried to boot a xp DISC that I have and it won't do that either. I have tried everything that I can think of. Any help would be helpfull

Kylewhat happened when you tried the XP disk to boot? explain in detail if you can.

Please explain if WINDOWS was on the hard drive you pulled or was it an extra drive run as a SLAVE? if so did you switch the pins on the drive to make it a master?Unless the HDD you used had been formatted then sounds like trying to boot with a set up from another and different machine ... ain't gonna work. It is ''seeing'' a whole load of info and drivers that suit the old puter.

I think you are gonna need a fully formatted HDD and then apply your OS from scratch ..... plus too I wonder if you have drivers relevant to this mobo.You can't just plop a drive from another computer into a different one and expect it to work. In particular the hdd drivers won't be recognized by the new system.

Best to copy any data off that drive and reformat.

Alan <><