Up for a challange?

Okay, heres what the story is. Had problems with XP blah blah, had to format. Using XP professional, it managed to boot fine off the cd and format the drive okay. While its copying the files, it hangs up on certain files, not always the same ones each time. I tried 3 different cd roms, 3 different copies of XP (Two being profressional, and one being my legit copy of XP home) Still getting the same problems. I even went out and bought a new P4 Board, CPU and hard drive... Still no luck... It baffles me to no end. Think about it. Its a completly different system pretty much... Only thing thats still the same is, my video card, (Geforce 4) Power supply and Floppy.

If I can manage to get past the file copy process by either skipping the files, or if it manages to copy them all fine, it will reboot to go into setup and just after it shows the XP logo, I'll get a blew screen, some times with a paging error, many other kinds of errors. Its making me mad, I owe a ton of cash on my Visa now, which I realize was a waste of time getting the new parts.

I can install Windows98SE on, but of course, win98 being what it is, I'll get errors up the ying yang after its installed.

If anyone can offer any help, it'd be great. The board is a MSI Neo board, with onboard lan and audio.

- Steve

Sounds like it could be an issue with your video card. Swap in a known good and try re-installing.

Hmm, how would that effect files being transfered from the cd though? There have been times I've managed to get the OS installed (before I went and bought the new board cpu etc) but I was getting errors etc and could do certain things in windows.

Just got a phone call. The place my father took my comp to, they pulled my old ram out, (forgot to mention the ram was the only other thing origional from my last hardware) Its two 256MB DDR 2100 266Mhz sticks, they took it out, and stuck in a 512mb of 333Mhz. Everything worked fine now... Live and learn I guess.

Thanks for the suggestions though.

Glad you got it solved.