Just off the top of my head I would say it sounds like the HDD is on its way out, and/or possibly you have bad RAM. Also, on a system that old, one should never rule out bad caps (google it).
Hello. I had several problems on my 8 years old pc, so i decided to reinstall windows xp. The problem is, when it copies the files, i get a lot of errors with windows xp setup cannot copy file, so i ignore all of them, as enter will not do. Then, when it finishes copying, i get a blue screen of death with the error BAD_POOL_CALLER, with technical information STOP 0x000000C2 (0x00000007, 0x00000CD4, 0x00000000, 0xE1EE38E
. I tried to install from another windows cd and i got the same errors. What should i do? It all started when windows xp was updating and i accidentally took the PC off the switch. What should i do? Thanks in advance!

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