OK, I've now double-checked and I have :
Original motherboard
Original Radeon video card
Origial CD drive
Original floppy drive
Original mouse
Original keyboard
New HDD with caddy now removed
Power saving off
USB's disabled
All other devices removed.
I've repeated all of the suggestions listed so far.
Still goes dead during "Installing Devices".
As I mentioned previously,
Win 98 still installs and works perfectly OK, if I try that, so it's not the HDD. Win XP won't install even after Win 98 has been successfully installed, or alternatively on a new partitioned/formatted/"blank" HDD.
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Question -- A friend mentioned M'soft security measures might be the problem. The Win XP disk (CD ROM obviously) is a genuine disk from M'soft supplied with the PC when I bought it. It's a full installation disk. It's the full business in other words.
This is the last thing that could be at fault, but how can I check, please, anyone ? Seems like a red herring, but.........
