That happened to me with XP Pro to the point that I spent 3 days trying to install it and failed.  Finally I removed the memory and inserted them one at a time until the setup would keep running.  I had an incompatible SDRAM. When it was removed the install was glitch free.  That may not be your problem, but it worked for me.  Another issue may be that your memory/cPU are too hot.  I tried removing the side of the case and blowing a big house fan on it.  Whatever works.  Another possibility is a bad channel on your power supply.


>Run fdisk and scandisk off the boot disk.
>
>On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:51:31 EDT Phillip Williams <[log in to unmask]>
>writes:
>> After many problems and much head banging, I finally got my first
>> computer
>> build project powered up and running. So I inserted the xp home disc
>> and booted
>> to it. went through formatting portion of set-up three times before
>> it
>> "apparantly" was successful. it then loaded the xp files up to the
>> point it says it
>> will now re-boot to finish set-up but every time it re-boots, it
>> states there
>> was a disc reading error and to press ctrl-alt-del to re-boot.
>> Would this be a hard drive or cd error? I thought maybe the xp disc
>> was
>> defective but since I have a couple of extras, I opened a new one
>> re-did all the
>> above with the same results. also tried changing boot sequence to hd
>> instead of
>> cd. No luck.
>> Hope y'all can help since this has already taken an imbarrasingly
>> long time
>> to get to this point!
>>
>> Phillip Williams
>>
>> System:
>> Soyo Dragon2 sy-p4I865pe plus mobo
>> P-4 3.2 processor
>> ATI AIW 9800 APG
>> Seagate 160 gig hd
>> Corsair xms 1 gig(x2) ram
>> Aspire ATX-AS520W 12V power supply
>>
>>

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