today's MS OS Cd's should be self booting, you may have to go in the BIOS
and chage the boot order of the system to the ATAPI CD first.  Then I would
try and get to a point where I would delete any previous partitions first
before I did a new install.

Usually if probelm with loading an os I find it to be bad memory or bad CPU
is the culprit





at 12:45 PM 07/06/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>hi
>im trying to load xp on to my new pc but i cant get to either dos or
install xp fresh from cd in either case the computer just locks and nothing
seems to happen.  any ideas please
>
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Thanks,

Joe

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