Windows xp home re-instal probs

[hypnosis75]

Hi all , ive bought a job lot of pc's with the intention of cleaning up and re-selling although the 2nd pc ive come to has got me stumped.

 

The hard drive had been formatted and ive attempted to instal windows xp with the supplied disc (genuine & hologrammed xp home disc with no visible damage) it allows me to start the install and enter pc name etc but then reboots after setting the network settings (approx 28 minutes til completion) and then restarts instal from 39 minutes to go....it then asks for the pc name etc AGAIN and then proceeds to reboot at the same point and re-start the installation again from 39 minutes.

 

Ive tried a good known power supply, a different hard drive, a different cd rom drive and i know the disc is fine as it installed on another pc before starting this one.

 

Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

 

The pc is a p4 1.7ghz packard bell with windows xo home coa on case so im quite confident its compatible with xp

[muppet rebecca]

You might want to post it in the malware section....It sunds like the computers infected with something...

[hypnosis75]

would that be possible even tho ive erased and formatted the hard drive & also tried another hard drive

[maynardvdm]

Hi

 

It sounds like every time the computer reboots, it is booting from the disk. It should only boot from the disk the first time and then from the hard drive to finish the installation.

[PCandLaptopRepair]

Go into the BIOS on startup and change the boot order to 1) CDROM 2) HDD 3) whatever. This will ensure that you're not getting stuck in the CD-boot loop described by another poster, above.