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rolanddes   05-19-2008 at 02:00:34 PM

I have a problem with my laptop. When I try to install windows xp, my laptop just shuts down just after copying of files from windows cd to harddrive completes and the screen of "do you want to install a new copy of windows or repair this old one" comes. I tried so many things like taking off one of the rams or checking the harddisk or controlling the heat. Hope you can show me around this problem.

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sturm   05-20-2008 at 07:01:19 PM
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Are you running on battery or external power supply when doing this?
I would run on power supply to make sure everything is running at full speed and so the battery doesn't run out half-way through.

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rolanddes   05-21-2008 at 11:17:25 AM
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I am running on external power supply. Actually I have tried all the options regarding power: with external power supply, battery or both of them..

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mcarde   11-09-2008 at 09:04:57 PM
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I am having the same problem but with a desk top. I am trying to install Windows XP SP3 (clean install) but each time it gets to the Windows install screen the PC powers down. I have an Antec Trio 650W Power Supply and an EVGA nForce 790i SLI FTW with 4 GB of memory WD Raptor 150GB Hard Drive, a Samsung DVD ROM Drive and a EVGA 9800 GTX video card. Has anyone else experienced a similar problem?

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bansal_era   01-02-2009 at 01:18:23 PM
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HI,
I m facing the same problem and that too in all OS. So, please if you find any solution to this problem than let me know about it. It will be of great help to me. Thanxxx. My i.d. is bansal_era@yahoo.co.in

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dacdaddy   02-05-2009 at 04:08:12 PM
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I just built an i7 w intel DX58SO MB, 150GB WD raptor and Corsair 600w psu, Quadro NVS 290, XP installed correctly, but my shutting-down/restarting issue happens when I am installing various programs, like Mozilla, Google Earth, CQG charting services, etc.

Any Ideas???

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GENNI   04-12-2009 at 07:21:20 AM
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I have the same problem but even before finishing loading the drives my laptop shuts down. My laptop came with vista home premium preinstalled. Ive been searching on the internet and found out that others had troubles installing winxp. But its different becuase they got the error of " not recognizing the hard disk" because you cant install winxp on a SATA hard disk. You have to change it in the BIOS settings to IDE. I also saw installing with drivers in a floppy disk, the option of F6. Another one I did is preinstalling the drivers in the Windows Xp image with nLite. I tried but still it shuts down. Now Ive also read that it might be overheated and it worked for others. But the curious part is that even with my windows vista backup disk which I had used before it still shuts down! Now what is the problem? can someone tell me?

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Slvador Limonis   05-28-2009 at 07:36:11 AM
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i found in another post that removing the battery solves this problem, i am trying it right now since i have the same problem, i will post this when i know whether it works or not

in the other post, two people claimed it worked for them, inshallah it will work for me as well

didn't work :( other claim it is overheating the system, i will try something about that now

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Slvador Limonis   05-28-2009 at 07:51:56 AM
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Found the solution, it IS overheating. i put my laptop on top of a fan, and it is working like a clock.

i still didn't reput the battery, but doubt that affects it.

again, as a summary, i am installing windows xp on a laptop, AMD. eep turning off after minute or less in the installation, so from reading the forums, apparenlty it is an overheating problem, put my laptop on fans and run it. much much better.

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