Windows XP(sp2) on Asus P4C800, not getting past blue windows screen

Rigth then folks I have a question....

I've just got Windows XP (home Edition sp2) & a new SATA150 HD

I've installed it on my Asus P4C800 Mother board & P4 (3.0Ghz, 800FSB), 1 Gig Memory

When i boot up with the WindowsXP CD in the CD drive to install it on the new drive it just gets stuck on blue screen and the words Windows in the top left corner

My question is this? my PC too old to install Windows XP?

Surely it would say this PC is too old or something not just stick on that screen wouldnt it?

 

On the bottom left hand corner, where the gray bar is, what does it say?

And do the words change?

 

nothing comes up the whole screen is blue with just the windows words at the top right corner

 

Ok, remove everything from the PC (like hard drives and cd-rom drives) apart from the optical drive you're installing from and a minimal amount of hardware. NO HARDDRIVE however.

If it boots off the CD then, turn off the machine and put in the hard drive, then install on that.

If you have multiple optical drives try those and check the CD reads in another machine.

 

I've had this problem a lot. Normally its a problem with the optical drive. Check the drive and make sure its not too old. Also find that a *dodgy* copy of XP aint all that good, or if your using a slipstreamed version of XP SP2 that might be causing it.

I would recommend DougEdeys solution.

Regards
GiGo

 

ok will try DougEdey's idea when i get the chance. Proper copy of XP though not *cough* copy heheh. Hope it works, i hate when things dont work when they really should work without any problems

wish me luck