seriously bad? please help!

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dave

I was trying to install windows xp on my comp, which is 2
years old, 700mhrz 256 megs ram, and my hard drive is
completely formatted...
i try to load the bios off the boot cd of windows
professional, but it gives me a general protection fault
(trap 0000000D) I cannot figure this out at all, i have
tried sys c:, fixboot, fixmbr, everything! I just cant
install anything! i have tried to install xp home AND
professional, nothing works, so something bad mustve
happened to my comp?

any help would be greatly appreciated!
thanks
 
Open your BIOS and set the CDROM as the 1st boot device and
the hard drive as the second.
Put your XP CD in the drive and reboot, the CD will boot and
give you a message, asking if you want to boot the CD? Say
yes.
You will be given the options to install, do it...you will
be able to partition, format and do a clean install or an
upgrade.

See MS instructions
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316941


message | I was trying to install windows xp on my comp, which is 2
| years old, 700mhrz 256 megs ram, and my hard drive is
| completely formatted...
| i try to load the bios off the boot cd of windows
| professional, but it gives me a general protection fault
| (trap 0000000D) I cannot figure this out at all, i have
| tried sys c:, fixboot, fixmbr, everything! I just cant
| install anything! i have tried to install xp home AND
| professional, nothing works, so something bad mustve
| happened to my comp?
|
| any help would be greatly appreciated!
| thanks
 
ive tried all of that, but the problem is that the cd
wont boot up! once i get to the "press any key to boot
cd" prompt, i press a key, then it gives me the general
protection fault screen... ive tried loading the setup
from xp boot diskettes too, but still no luck... i think
this problem is even more serious than i thought before!

thanks for the help tho!
if anyone has any more ideas, they will be very much
appreciated!
cheers
 
Reinstall your previous operating system, then when at that systems desktop,
place the XP CD in the drive, when the setup screen appears, select "Check
System Compatibility." The report it generates may give a clue as to what
is going on.
 
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