Whew! I've been through this so many times! I don't want to list the "Stop" errors and other stuff. I want to see if these tools can help me Restart an installation at points other than "39 minutes". Sometimes I get all the way down to "4 minutes", then WHAM!

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Surely there is a way of preserving all that configuration, registering of components, setting up start menu items, and all the stuff that has completed properly!!

and its probably simple, but I don't know how to do iit.

All my software is legal, all is current. I am having the same problem with XP Pro and a 360-day release of Windows 64-Bit that I'm TRYING to install on an FIC K8-800 system with 3400+ 754-pin.

Its so boring to go back to that "39 minutes" point.

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Thanks in advance for any help. email me if you have something.

kd4yum

Have you tried sysprep?

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Thanks so much for the advise regarding sysprep.

I don't know about that tool, but checking my XP Pro Help with 'sysprep' as the key pointed me to the Resource Kit web page. Man, there is a lot of stuff in there that I need. (Stop msgs, etc.).

I jumped back over here to just say thanks.

I saved a link to the page so that after I finish my 'rounds' today I can get in and look for sysprep.

Best wishes to you.

-Mark

If your getting stop errors during setup then there is something seriously wrong with you hardware, my guess would be memory, if you have multiple sticks remove them leaving only one and try the install again, repeat until you find the duff stick, (if it is memory that is, just my first guess)