Problem installing my hard-drive!

I get a blue screen when their is a minutre left in installing windowx xp. It goes to a blue screen and says your have performed a illegal operation. I never got this before in my life and it keeps doing that everytime i try to install windows. I got a seagate 40 gig the drive is like 3 years old. Soemone told me to try getting a boot disk from the seagate website.

Did you have a working windows installation on this hard disk before?
(if no, check the hardware compatibility list)

"Boot disk from seagate" is IMHO BS. If you needed that, you'd not be able to start the installation at all. This was necessary for very old hardware only and the W9X series. If your hardware actually is that old, XP wouldn't support it anyway. And, as I said earlier, you couldn't get as far as you did with the installation.

Check your BIOS settings (is the hard drive setup correctly there?) And also, when you install next time, delete the partitions first and re-create them after.

hth,
M.

Something very similiar has happened to me twice with very old and low ram hardware and once when I wanted to save the data on the disk after really screwing up the system.

It's probably not the HD. M. Hirsch's advice is what it takes to cover the bases so long as your hardware is at least close to XP's minimum reqirements.

Still not working? If your motherboard is more than 4 years old, look for a driver and/or BIOS update from the manufacturer.

My mother board is a p3 1.0ghz

Your BIOS date?
If you never flashed it, do it now.

Also, over the last weeks, I have had more than 5 machines from around that time (p3, 1Ghz) where the capacitors on the mainboard were blown up. Check this, if they have brown liquid on top, ...

hth,
M.