OK, I am totally puzzled by this. I am attempting to install Windows XP Pro on a system I built yesterday:
Athlon xp2000+
ASUS A7V333 (no raid)
Thermaltake Volcano 7+ HSF (with Arctic Silver III)
1xSamsung 256mb pc2700 ddr
Gainward GF4 4200 64mb
IBM 30gb hd (primary master)
WD 120gb hd (primary slave)
Plextor 12/10/32 CDR (2ndary master)
Generic DVDROM (2ndary slave)
SB Live Platinum 5.1 (with Livedrive)
3com 10/100 ethernet
I boot from the WinXP cd, it starts setup and loads the drivers. Sometimes it crashes during this process and I get this:
IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL bluescreen error message
Other times it gets through the driver loading and freezes while "Starting Windows Setup" or whatever it says before you get to pick your partitions, format, etc.
I tried installing Windows 2000 Pro at one point and it froze at the same point.
Any ideas?
