I am uncertain of what you meant by "changed memory". My thought is that you 
do not have enough memory to run xp. I would suggest that you  borrow (if 
you can) a similar 512mb stick of ram and see if the problem gets solved. 
Windows typically needs between 512mb & 1gb to run correctly. The (512+256) 
mb should be sufficient. If not, there is always plan B!

Good luck
Art

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "martin mccabe" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Failure pattern


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Russ Cox" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 4:58 PM
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Failure pattern
>
>
> I was given a no name computer, 1 GHz Duron, 256M RAM running XP Home. 
> There are no expansion cards installed. System and CPU fans are running.
> It would lock up at about the same point loading Win XP, would not go into 
> setup, would fail at the same point in safe mode every time.  I changed 
> memory with no improvement.  So I decided to load a fresh copy of Win XP 
> Home.  It locks up at about the same point each time while installing 
> files during installation.
> So where is the problem?
>
> sounds like a HD problem  try a clean install with no partitions
> as it was previously working some history may help
>
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