"Tip: If you are asking for help to troubleshoot a computer-related problem, please be sure to include all the necessary information (ie: operating system, model number, hardware, software, etc) that will help others identify your problem for a speedy resolution."
XP glides onto good hardware. It appears you haven't found what's not working proper yet. Some fight it, but a monster power supply and good cooling is important.
Without a gritty detailed list of the machine, one can't see if this is the usual Athlon on 300Watt power supply or something else is amiss.
Bob
We began by have a lot of lockups and had decided to reinstall wins XP. Formatted HD and tried to install. Wins stopped loading and said that files where not being copied correctly that maybe the disk was damaged. We redid using a new copy of XP, same thing. We put in new HD, same message. We changed out the CD and tried, same thing. We changed cable to HD and CD, same thing. We have changed out mem. and checked seating on Vid card. Nothing seems to help. We now have tried 3 HD's,
3 different copies of XP and still get the error message any Ideals. Thanks

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