Cant install win XP

[ghost2003]

I re-formated a computer with the XP disk, it installed the system files, after it reebots. It boots windows as it it was all installed(exept with a white progress bar first). It shows me the "service screen" as I call it. It sais
setup restarting.............
Then I get a light bleu screen and it reboot, does that over and over and over. I tried reinstalling the system files over the first ones but no luck.

[lancefiles]

Well I've never been fond of formatting with the CD, I would make a start up disk, format the harddrive, then reboot with the XP disk in the drive..................(probaly what you did , but just try again.)

[Presario]

U need to f disk the drive first and let XP make the new pertition for u that what i did :P so make a windows 98 boot disk www.bootdisk.com

[ktkendall]

Originally posted by Presario U need to f disk the drive first and let XP make the new pertition for u that what i did :P so make a windows 98 boot disk www.bootdisk.com

If U do this U can not format NTFS with the win98 boot disk, anyways your past that, it sounds like hardware problems. Take the system down to minimum components to see if U can get windows loaded then you can add sound, modem, and whatever else later after windows is up and running. Is this an old PC?? If so what OS was on it before?? Are you sure it meets the minimum requirements for XP and all the hardware compatability specs..Sounds like possible bad RAM..

[Presario]

also ram could be a problem remove any added ram i had that problem and graphics cards that were upgraded mainly cheap ones i had a cheap graphics card and had to remove it and use the onboard card and that worked but then again it could be anything --- hope u get it working--

[ThePoor]

i would say re-partition the hard drive, reformat using win98 bootable disk... when install convert it to NTFS.... good luck.

[regans cortina]

hmm, make sure you boot options in bios are set to
1 boot from cd
2 boot from hard drive

that happened to me once . it kept on booting from the hard drive first b4 the cd rom could get a chance to run the xp install
just try that and see what happens. if succesful, then dont forget to revert back to the normal boot options after install.