",I've fdisked and formatted the drive of a toshiba 1800-814 laptop and in the process of installing XP Pro "
1. That's not a proper way to get ready to install XP. About step 5 of the next link shows XP's installer can prepare the drive proper. While this may not be the issue here, it is not worth leading off with the wrong foot.
-> http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/OS/InstallXPPro/installxppro1.htm
2. Unplug any USB devices during install.
3. Is the machine known to run XP? Some will never run XP. Windows 2000 may be the best they will run (other than Linux).
4. Is the BIOS current?
Bob
Hi, As the title suggests,I've fdisked and formatted the drive of a toshiba 1800-814 laptop and in the process of installing XP Pro - genuine copy. It gets to 9 minutes to go on the GUI setup but then shuts down to standby mode. Now I cleaned the disk, tried again. Nope, same again. Tried a clean install again, nope, again exactly the same point with 9 mins to go. Its not the battery as the laptop was plugged in. Any suggestions?

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