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trouble installing windows xp on new build

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well this is my first computer i built so i'm a little inexpierianced but here's the problem
i powered on my computer and put in the xp disc i boot it up from the disc and so the disc is installing xp it says windows is starting up for about 15 seconds the screen goes black and i get the bsod. it talks about my hard drive and for tech information i get the error code : stop: 0x0000007B (0xF78D2524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) i've found what these mean but not what i can do about it i need help thanks

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Write this to a disk & boot it up for 5 passes:

http://www.memtest.org/#downiso

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thanks ill try that

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