Going slightly mad Wrote:
I'd start by swapping RAM and possibly power supply at this point.
sounds like setup is hanging when it's tossed in memory. bad RAM can
cause that, or if your power rails aren't stable enough they can
degrade teh stabillity of the RAM (skipping refresh cycles, too low
voltage to keep the charge in the memory cell between refreshes etc.)


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Serpent77

It could also be the CPU itself that is defective. I had a similar problem
about 3 years ago. I couldn't load any operating system on a new computer I
was putting together. If I disabled the L2 cache on the processor (from
within the bios) the install worked, but took 5 hours to complete.

I got a replacement CPU from the manufacturer and everything was fine
(install time was about 35 minutes).

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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