Never seen this before, please help!

topgun06 · 7 Feb 2007 at 21:52

Hi, my mate went to OcUK today to buy his new PC. The spec is:

Intel e6300
Asus P5N-E SLi
Geil 2GB PC6400C4
Leadtek GeForce 7950 GT 256MB
Seagate Barracuda 160GB
Corsair 620W PSU

We fitted it together and booted up. Went into BIOS and set the boot priority to the CD Drive and put the XP CD in. This is where the problems started. As the PC started to boot from the CD it would sometimes reset or it would get to the point where it says "Setup is examining hardware configuration" (or something like that) and just freeze.

Or it would show a screen like this:

Please help!! Thanks.

topgun06 · 7 Feb 2007 at 22:28

Tried all combinations of RAM. One stick, two sticks, different slots etc. Still no difference.

What steps should i take now?

topgun06 · 8 Feb 2007 at 00:15

Are you sure? It works perfectly fine in my rig, just not in my friend's. :confused:

Ill look into that though... thanks.

topgun06 · 8 Feb 2007 at 00:24

Yeah, my mate has had a bad day, that would be the last things he would want to happen.

Ok ill give memtest a go tomorrow and hope for the best, thanks for the help.

topgun06 · 8 Feb 2007 at 17:48

Ok, so ive tired memtest for 3 and a half hours and no errors or problems at all.

i retried installing windows and i get this message:

"Line 684 of the INF file \i386\txtsetup.sif is invalid. Setup casnnot continue."

Is the XP disk a gonner?