XP Pro stalling during new install on Amilo

Laptop Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L7310GW

Hi, doing a friend a favour and upgrading his XP Home to XP Pro, the machine had always been a little 'buggy' so went for a format and new install. As the install reached 32 minutes remaining the green cursor stoped during the network install. I tried restarting and this time the green cursor travelled most of the way across but again the machine stalled. Repeated restarts repeated the stall during network install period.

I have read up on similar problems and found the most common problem during install is the machine stopping at the 34 minute 'installing devices' period, this machine passes through that stage with no trouble.

Any ideas guys and girl?

Many thanks

Tranquillo

 

I have three copies one original and two copies both stall at the same point, thanks for the quick reply.....next idea?

Tranquillo

 

Try switching off any networking devices (Ethernet/Wireless) in the BIOS and let it try installing the OS, then once it has been installed turn it back on and try installing the drivers from there on.

 

The BIOS seems very limited with what I can do, in fact barring changing the boot options that's about it? I eventually fitted another another hard drive that had windows XP Pro and simply updated the drivers, this has the machine working but it is now using a pirated copy of XP on it along with the no no validation message on the screen all the time.

Tranquillo

 

It is only "pirated" because it was not activated using a legit code. If you use a legit code, it becomes a legal copy.

The key point is that a legit activation code will activate one copy of XP. If it is used to activate more than one copy of XP, you are into piracy. If it is used to activate a copy of XP that was installed from a different CD/DVD, and that is the only copy of XP activated with that number, then it is legit.

Right?

As to the stalled install, I would suggest testing the hard drive that was removed. An OS install can work a drive hard, which means the drive gets warm. I have had hard drives that worked very well as long as they were not used very hard - as soon as they started to get warm, they stated to fail. That can be difficult to diagnose, since you can't always work a drive hard enough to cause a heat failure and the drive seems to be perfectly OK otherwise.

 

Thanks for that, I have left the machine with my friend so he can at least use it. He now wants a bigger hard drive so I will be looking for some legitimate softeware.

Thanks again

Tranquillo