Problems installing XP <<HELP>>

[spartan15914]

so heres the story. I just put together a new p4 system, and i installed a good copy of windows XP onto the sata hard drive. It was working fine, i could play games ect. But then i started getting an registry error message right after if loged me onto the computer, and it would just reboot. then eventually it just would not boot off the drive, it said that one of the system files was missing.

so i decided to reinstall windows. I did this by booting from the disk, and i had successfuly formated the 120 gb sata hd, and it was starting to copy the system files. Then it told me there were a bunch of files that it could not copy due to an error; i told it to skip the file, because i had no other choice. after that, an error message came up and said that the installation had stoped to prevent damage to my hardware. it said to take out any new hardware, and to try it again. I tried installing it multiple times, but got the same thing every time. I only have the bare necesities installed, a videocard, cd drive, hard drive and floppy. The XP disk and CD drive are in working order, i used them to install XP on a different computer after this problem.


Why can't I install window?

please help me, im out of things to try.

[macko72]

My friend had similar problem and we tried to install windows multitimes and it was always skiping install files and at the end install was stopped just like yours so we tried to insall from different windows cd-ies then difrent windows and nothing helpped till we dicovered that something is wrong with CD-ROM drive(well cdrw) we tried change IDE cable and when we changed CD-RW drive everything was ok again.
My sugestion is to go one by one start from CD DRIVE wich you said is in order try changing cables and etc.

[spartan15914]

so i got a new ide cable, and that worked in getting the first part of windows installed, but when it reboots, off the hard drive, it shows an error page saying "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON-PAGE_AREA".

i think that my problem may be hard drive related, but i can't prove it.

any other suggestions? thanks for your help so far.

[spartan15914]

so every time i boot i get a different erorr message, or it just reboots with out a message. It is very unconsistent in the way it reacts each time i boot up.

[glc]

Test your ram.

http://www.memtest.org/

[Stealth_799]

I had a friend that had the same problem. It turned out to be a stick of ram. We removed the culprit ram stick and XP Installed flawlessly.