[Osiris]

64 I beleive but ive seen it on 32mb but it took forever for it to start.....not sure how true it was but thatd what it said

[Brtnboarder495]

Okay well the memory is okay I'm guessing because both sticks launch to the same point of failure, it's gotta be the hard disk.

But can I ask what the boot sequence should be before RMAing it?

[Osiris]

hdd, cd floppy.....is the usual

[Brtnboarder495]

Thanks ...

This sucks, what if the issue isn't the HD and I RMA it for nothing?

Is there any other way to check before I RMA it, because I can't imagine it would let my parition and install the drive for Windows and then not work.

[Osiris]

fdisk it and then format it and then install xp once again. If it does it again its either the hdd, cd drive, or the xp cd you have or a driver that hoses your system. We still have pinpointed the exact cause yet so we dont know for sure.

[Brtnboarder495]

How do I go about fdisking it? Do you mean reformat the hard disk and then reinstall XP?

[EricB]

I think that he just missing a step from booting from cd.

[Brtnboarder495]

Hey! I figured out what's wrong, and XP is up and running.

System is fine and stable, finally ...

I just made a stupid mistake in modifying the boot sequence.

Thanks for all your help ... off to game!

[Osiris]

well tell us what you did

[EricB]

he didn't have it set to boot from cd