setup is starting windows and system freezes

[jae.kumar]

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Dear friends,

Please help me I m not able to reinstal XP on my desktop,freezes up at “setup is starting windows”
desktop was working fine 2days back but yesterday it was giving black screen with cursor blinking.i removed ram and replaced it but it was still same.then thought to repair windows but as i m getting into troubleshooting getting across different problems below i m mentiong all things that i followed friends pls help

Options i tried
(1)i replaced ram but still same problem,
(2)I disconected IDE cable from CD & IDE it gives me error no bootable device found,when i connect HDD & CD IDE but still same …tried bot keeping HDD as master and CD rom as Slave also vice versa
(3) to check whether it is HDD error or not i removed HDD also setup proceeds after “setup is ….” message,booted system from cd and started setup but i found setup freezing at same point

System configuration
120GB HDD
1GB Ram DDR2
P4 processor
915motherboard with 1IDE port,2SATA ,2DDR1 and 1DDR2,2usb,vga,sound port,lan port.

Please help ….

thanx for help in advance

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