Less then a week ago the exact same thing happened to me. Three days later
and several calls to Dell support I discovered that the ram was bad.
Tdeejones [log in to unmask]

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I had this problems and spent 3 days trying to install XP Pro.  In the end
it was some RAM that had been in the computer for some time .....


Hugh Vandervoort <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Setup stops responding with 34 minutes remaining
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828267
>Javier wrote:

>>Hello everyone!
>> I was running windows 2000 on my laptop and decided to upgrade to windows
>>XP. The install was going great up untill the point where only 34 mintues
>>remained. From there the computer just freezes and refuses to continue
>>installing.

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