I reformatted my hard drive because I was having a problem with Windows 2000 rebooting randomly; now, I had problems the first time setting up Windows 2000; it kept wanting to reboot, but it did finally let me install a (corrupt, I guess) copy of 2000. I never could get it to working properly, so I reformatted my hard drive (a brand new Maxtor 40g), and tried to do a clean install of Win2000. This time, I can't even make it through the setup process; it just keeps rebooting and starting over. Does anyone know why this could be happening? Could I have a defective CD? I have no cards inserted, just a brand spanking new mainboard (Intel Albatron 865PE/865PE Pro), a new Pentium 4 2.4ghz processor, and 512mg of ddr ram. Everything is working properly. I have tried to format and reinstall this several times, and the os reboots at different times during the setup process, so it's not just one place it gets to. Once in a while it gets hung up as it is loading files or installing them. Once I even made it as far as installing network components before it rebooted. Any advice????? Thanks.

Sounds like a bad ram stick. See if you can swap it out for a test. (I know it's new, but it could still be bad.) Larry

Hey This is probably a problem with your "brand spanking new mainboard (Intel Albatron 865PE/865PE Pro." ;) Press 'DEL' during start up to access the Bios. Disable anything to do with Virus Scanning. The virus scan stops the installer writing to certain sectors. Try this and everything should be saavy. Drop me line and let me know how it goes. Best of luck Ross