Why is my pc locking up while i instal win xp?

[matt2004]

Installing xp on a new HD, formatted it now installing Win xp and it keeps locking during the device instalation.

AMD 1.4
768 mb ram
western digital HD 80g
MSI KT3 ultra Mobo.

[bertschkid]

more info

[matt2004]

new HD from the store. I made my cd rom my boot drive.
XP begins installation and then locks while installing drivers with 35 minutes left.

edit:
I have my new HD set in IDE1 and the cd rom set in IDE2
the Floppy is in its slot but is not reckognized in the bios.
I have new HD set as single/master and my cd rom set as slave.

[JohnE.]

Had this same problem a week ago... try setting RAM timings to default failsafe speeds. You can tweak settings again once you get WinXP loaded.

[matt2004]

looked through bios, i did not see an option to set ram speeds

[JohnE.]

Which motherboard you have?

A couple other things to try: connect the CD-ROM to IDE2 as master, instead of a slave of the HDD on IDE1 (you'll get better performance from the HDD that way), check to make sure the floppy cable is on the right way.

[matt2004]

kt3 ultra atx
i believe i have the ide cables facing correctly, pink is facing the open side of the case (HDD and CD ROM). Floppy IDE is facing opposite.

Nothings working, it just keeps locking, i even tried swaping out different pieces or ram.
This sucks.

[tgxiii]

Hmmm... try running Memtest86 and see if your RAM is good. Most of my Windows XP install problems were due to bad RAM.

[matt2004]

Im going to bed now, i might take it into a small shop tomorrow and let a professional fix it.
My CD rom is pretty old too so maybe thats the problem.
Ill post my results when its fixed.

Thanks for the feed back guys.

[matt2004]

Guess I had a lot of my bios settings messed up...

Noobie error- everything is up and running!