Tip: I have a great gaming rig with an AMD Athlon 64 3400, 512 Mb Corsair DDR ram (x2), Ati Radeon Pro 9800 video with 128 Mb video ram, Zenith Chaintech znf150 ez motherboard, 80 Gig SATA HDD (x2), 40 Gig IDE HDD, Vantec Vortex HDD coolers(x2), 6 80mm blue LED case fans, Aopen H700 full tower, and LiteOn 52x CD-RW. I recently formatted HDD’s, and Windows will not install. I have tried for months to fix this system, and nothing works at all. I can get linux running, but not installed (OS on CD). Windows sometimes starts to install, but invariably fails. Any clue as to a solution?
Without knowing the error that it gives you while it attempts to install it’s hard to say what’s causing it. My first guess is that your hard drive that you’re installing to may be corrupted. If while Window’s installer is copying the file gets corrupted on the hard drive, this would obviously cause an error.
It’s also possible that one of your sticks of RAM may be bad. What I’d do is disconnect everything that’s not essential to the computer running and try to install. If it works, then connect the other devices one by one until you find out what’s causing the crash.
June 28th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Just a thought here if the computer runs under a Linux OS (assuming it does fully & is stable) could it be down to a question of device driver support of the hardware within the computer.
For example there is the reference to 2 x SATA hard drives but no reference as to whether they are for hosting data or one of them is being used for the Windows OS.
Just a thought…