Hey Guys, cn you help me with windows XP pro

[Laptop_wizard]

I was installing XP pro on a desktop gatway computer, the installation process keeps freezing, and one out of the 3 formats and installments, it worked, then when i would select control panal, or anything else, it woulden't do it, and it freezes in the process of shutting down.
can anyone help?

[CaptainMorgan]

It would help to know the specs of your computer.

[jdhurst]

For Windows XP to install correctly, the computer generally needs to be certified for XP. What you can try is to find updated drivers (video, audio, NIC, power management and ACPI being some important ones). Get those drivers on diskette or CD, then try to start XP in safe mode and install updated drivers. That may or may not work. ... JD Hurst

[Laptop_wizard]

Hey guys, thanks for your reply's, the computer previousely had xp upgraded on it, it had windows Me on it before, we got so many viruses that i just formatted, and then my above problems began, i tryed it 4 times, it usally freezes upon installation.
It has an amd anthlon 1GHz 384 ram.thanks

[sickofit]

Go here http://www.cpuid.org/cpuz.php and download and run CPU-Z....look at the mainboard model # and go and look for a BIOS update....alot of times there are BIOS upgrades to work with XP

Hope that helps...

Later....

Greg St.L

[d lehmann]

Be very carefull with the bios update.
Gateway uses less than admirable marketing ploys and one of them is not keeping all the bios revisions on the web for download.
SAVE your existing bios before updating, so you can revert back if necessary. I have a gateway sitting here with a screwed up bios and no way to get a previous version back. It keeps looking for a B floppy drive on boot and the bios doesn't even support that
Old gateways also used a hidden partition like tp, but didn't do nearly as good a job of it. I have found the best way is to write zeros to the hdrive first and then do a fresh xp install. I recently put xpprosp2 on a gateway Pll 400 with 256ram with original bios and it ran surprisingly fast with no problems at all.
Gateway's power supplies were very poor so be aware of that.
Good luck