Quake3World

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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. )

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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).