Hi there, im kind of having a mini crisis here. I installed linux, which kind of worked, just wouldnt boot up after restarting, not would it detect xp pro,so i formatted th hard drive and tried to start afresh. Linux will no longer install, it just gives me an error about sum timeout with th DMA, after th KUBUNTU progress bar bit (am/was trying to install kubuntu 6.06). .
Windows has also accumulated its own annoying error. Th pc starts up, says: press any key to boot from CD, so i do, then it inspects the hardware configuration, then th blue screen comes up. Its really strange, because it loads about 30 / 40 things before th menu to install it comes up, but th first time i tried to install it afresh yesterday, it would load all of them, get to the menu, then freeze upon copying files to the hard drive, 2nd time, would not quite finish loading all the 30 or so things, 3rd time, bout 25, fourth even less, and now it just stops at the kernel debugger dll, and says something about erroe 14, and failed to load something. It cant be the cd, a) cos it does the same with 3 seperate XP pro discs, and b) would it not stop at the smae place everytime?
this is soooo furstrating now, cos neither XP or Linux will install.
(p.s. it seems to be fine on my bros p.c, if i put my hard drive in there, itll load th linux live cd up no problem, as it did 1st time on my pc) and i would try and install it on the hard drive in his pc, then just put th hard drive in my pc, but im guessing that this would just screw it up, and not work, and therefore be a further waste of time, plus, it only has th option to use the whole of the hard disk, but i also want to install xp. (his is an intel p4,256mb of ram, mines an amd 3000, 1gb ram)
thanks again
welshy
(p.s. sorry for th essay)
Windows has also accumulated its own annoying error. Th pc starts up, says: press any key to boot from CD, so i do, then it inspects the hardware configuration, then th blue screen comes up. Its really strange, because it loads about 30 / 40 things before th menu to install it comes up, but th first time i tried to install it afresh yesterday, it would load all of them, get to the menu, then freeze upon copying files to the hard drive, 2nd time, would not quite finish loading all the 30 or so things, 3rd time, bout 25, fourth even less, and now it just stops at the kernel debugger dll, and says something about erroe 14, and failed to load something. It cant be the cd, a) cos it does the same with 3 seperate XP pro discs, and b) would it not stop at the smae place everytime?
this is soooo furstrating now, cos neither XP or Linux will install.
(p.s. it seems to be fine on my bros p.c, if i put my hard drive in there, itll load th linux live cd up no problem, as it did 1st time on my pc) and i would try and install it on the hard drive in his pc, then just put th hard drive in my pc, but im guessing that this would just screw it up, and not work, and therefore be a further waste of time, plus, it only has th option to use the whole of the hard disk, but i also want to install xp. (his is an intel p4,256mb of ram, mines an amd 3000, 1gb ram)
thanks again
welshy
(p.s. sorry for th essay)