Hi, I have an old p3, 733 mhz, 256 ram. Trying to install winxp, it always gets to within 10 min of finishing set up then goes to blue screen, with no warnings or faults, just a plain blue screen, I have to push reset then it starts set up over again, done this a few times now. Anybody have any idea why it would do this???
Also, i tried more than one copy of WINDOWS so its not that.
thanks.Any system with 256M of RAM will be a struggle running XP...anyone who tells you DIFFERENT is out of their mind.
Buy some more RAM...it's relatively cheap right now.i hear you, but i have installed on plenty of comps with 256 ram, it should still install, something else causing it, not sure what though.The Hard Drive may have become corrupted or may just be too small to support this O.S. What are the specs and how old is the H.D.? Is it new or has it had another O.S. installed on it? Pentium 3 is very old and also may have become damaged due to environmental circumstances or even human error. What does CMOS TELL you about your system?The CD may be damaged or a bad copy. Is it a genuine Microsoft install disk?
hey guys, thanks for replies, tried 2 different hard drives, same problem, and of course its a genuine copy of windows.
i do get a problem when it boots up, after it sees all the drives then i get a fault that says, "primary slave not atapi, press F1 to continue. But there isnt anything hooked up to the primary slave.
thanks, for help so far.
Sounds as if somethings funky with the ATAPI adapters...try re-installing the MBoard drivers.