XP Home freezes during install

Post by **corpse** » Sat May 20, 2006 6:01 am

I am iinstalling XP Home on an Athlon 2200, 512 RAM and a Gigabyte motherboard. I get to where it wants the location and area code and it just freezes and I have to reboot.

I get to the same point every time and it freezes as soon as I click on the scroll to get the country.

A couple of times it froze halfway through typing in the product key.

Any ideas.

I did switch the Ram and that didnt help.

Post by **Scourge** » Sat May 20, 2006 6:06 am

Have you tried just not clicking on the scroll and going to the next part when you get that far? You know you can change that later right? Just a suggestion that may get you through the install.

On the other hand, is that disk scratched or anything like that? Could be a faulty install disk.

Post by **corpse** » Sat May 20, 2006 6:23 am

NO, the disk is fine. I wasnt aware that you could change that later, but it still means there is a problem someplace, right?

I thought maybe if I put in the wrong location it would affect my getting updates.

Post by **Scourge** » Sat May 20, 2006 6:25 am

corpse wrote:NO, the disk is fine. I wasnt aware that you could change that later, but it still means there is a problem someplace, right?

I thought maybe if I put in the wrong location it would affect my getting updates.

Yeah, it probably means there's still a problem somewhere but it may be just insignificant enough that if you just continue that it may never be a probelm again. You can change all your time, location, country, etc after install unless there's something that I missed.

Post by **corpse** » Sat May 20, 2006 7:19 am

Install went through fine and you can change settings in control panel in regional settings.

However, after the install that went throug fine, I went into regional settings and tried to change to Canada and it froze and I had to reboot. WTF??

What couild there be in reginal settings that is causing this computer to crash?

I dont know if this is related but my screen is very big so I went into display settings and it is set to 800x600 but its not.

Then I moved the bar up to 1024x768 and the one past that and clicked OK and it came up with the usual "do you want to keep these settings, etc." I click OK, but the desktop size does not change. And it shows that the display adapter is not installed which means I shouldnt be able to increase the resolution that much. What is going on?

Post by **Tormentius** » Sat May 20, 2006 7:20 pm

If you've already replaced the RAM with a known-good stick then its probably either the hard drive or power supply.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sat May 20, 2006 7:28 pm

i agree with Tor, but also try removing your dial-up modem.

( i am assuming that you have one due to the fact that its asking for your area code. )

Post by **corpse** » Sun May 21, 2006 5:39 am

Actually it asks for an area code when you do the regional setup regardless of a modem.

I have tried a new hard drive and it still freezes at various moments. I have Windows installed, but it just randomly freezes.

I will try a different power supply.

I was actually thinking maybe the motherboard, but I will try the power supply first. All the capacitors look fine but I guess it could still be bad despite that.

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Sun May 21, 2006 6:28 am

This also happens when the CPU and RAM timings aren't set right in the BIOS.

Post by **Scourge** » Sun May 21, 2006 3:17 pm

corpse wrote:Actually it asks for an area code when you do the regional setup regardless of a modem.

I've never had to enter an area code when installing. Only the time zone.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Sun May 21, 2006 3:18 pm

Maybe corpse needs to buy a legit version of the OS.

Post by **corpse** » Mon May 22, 2006 12:04 am

It is a legit copy. Sometimes when I reinstall it asks for the usuall time and stuff and sometimes [same legit disk] it asks for the location, such as Country and area code.

Post by **r2t3** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:46 pm

I've had this happen to me before as well. Try making sure that there are no USB connected devices (mouse may be ok, though can't remember for certain).