Windows XP Pro Installation Problems

I am having problems installing Windows XP Pro.

Computer: 550mhz, 155ram, 19gig HD, AMD K6-2, BIOS v4.51PG

I have have had a version of linux and windows 98se running on this computer with no problems. Also, since I was having so many problems, I tried loading my version of XP on another computer (233mhz, 160ram) and it loaded with absolutely no problems.

OK. Several things have happened. Unfortunately, I don't have detailed notes. On several tries loading XP, I have gotten to a certain point and a system file would get corrupted or would be missing. On another occasion, I got a registry error. On another occasion, when formatting the hard drive as NTFS, the installation told me my hard drive was bad. I rebooted with a win98 boot disk and reformatted as fat32. No problems reformatting.

The only thing I can think of to do is upgrade the bios. I don't really want to do this because I am afraid I will screw up my computer.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

 

Do you see a problem with this number?

155ram

 

I thought it was odd. I don't know much about computers so you need to be a little more specific. THanks.

 

Ok. Ram is only sold in even numbered amounts.


So, unless you have onboard video taking up ram, and have any kind of bios shadowing going on, then it sounds like some of your ram is bad. The errors you are getting sound like bad ram.

I would try memtest86 off of this site, and also check your bios for the size of the sticks of ram installed.

Shadowing is bad. If you have bios or video shadowing enabled in the bios, turn it off.

 

I didn't think it could be an odd number. I will try what you suggested. THanks.

 

Video shadowing was enabled. I disabled it. The memory changed from 155 to 152.

I ran memtest86. It showed passed 1 and no errors. I guess once it finishes it starts back over with the same test.

Do you think that the video shadowing would cause the problems I was describing with my xp install?

Thanks.

 

Yeah it could have caused the problem.

Another thing to try is loading a standard HAL.

When the CD says press 'F6', when booting to it, press F5 and choose whatever standard option there is.

 

Another attempt at reinstallation.

Pressed F5 when it said press F6.
When the F5 screen came up, I selected Standard PC with C-step i486.
Pressed Enter on Setup Screen.
Pressed F8 at EULA screen.
Deleted partition.
Formatted at NTFS.
Setup copied files.
Took CD out and restarted.
Windows booted up then asked for CD. Reinserted CD and installation continued.

Was a good way through the installation (had rebooted several times) and it blued screened.

A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to computer.

Multiple IRP_Computer_Requests

then the dump stuff.

What do you think?