Building my parents a comp for christmas. Just put everything in, tried to boot off of windows xp disk, and got an error screen that looks like this.



Any suggestions? I've been using search and have googled the problem, but was wondering if anyone had some firsthand experience with it.

[Edited on December 21, 2006 at 10:18 PM. Reason : y]

12/21/2006 10:18:10 PM

try another hard drive

12/21/2006 10:20:50 PM

Ok thanks. Actually just got it working, and it was installing windows, the my power went off at the house and now its reading some error message, but I think it'll be easy to fix.

Thanks though!

12/21/2006 10:35:56 PM

ok one more question. For now I only have windows xp 32bit to install, but I have a 64 bit processor. Will there be any performance loss do you think?

12/21/2006 10:47:12 PM

most people run 32-bit windows since 64-bit support isn't quite there yet... some drivers, very few apps for 64-bit, stay 32, the performance difference won't be that noticeable compared to 32-bit processors

[Edited on December 21, 2006 at 10:56 PM. Reason : .]

12/21/2006 10:55:28 PM

Yeah, I had xp embedded x64 installed on my desktop a while ago and it was extremely buggy. Several program installs (Battlefield 2, Dreamweaver) failed because of an issue with memory registers. You probably won't notice much of a performance increase when "up"grading to x64. 64-bit linux on the other hand...

12/21/2006 11:04:22 PM

format and reinstall

12/22/2006 12:46:33 AM

i have an athlon64 and run 32-bit windows. no problemo.

12/22/2006 1:47:12 AM

so im looking at my girlfriends laptop (compaq presario r3000) because it keeps blue screening. it started this past summer, then she changed the ram from 512 to 1024 which stopped it for a while. then during the fall semester it crashed and hp replaced the motherboard. it started blue screening again earlier this semester and she sent it back and they just reformatted. now its doing it again, is there anything (more complicated than overheating) that could be to blame. (or whats the folder that the error message is stored in on the bluescreen occurence?)

1/25/2007 10:46:27 PM