Hi everyone, I hope that someone can enlighten me as to what can be done about this frustrating situation. It all started when I attempted to reinstall Windows XP on my acer 2010 series. I wanted a fresh start, but got the opposite. The first problem was that when I switched to the second recovery cd during installation, the system told me that there was a problem with it. When I took it out I was instructed to insert the system cd, which I foolishly did and this resulted in a "general protection fault"-message. Now, every attempt to start up results in this message. Also, every attempt to install Windows again now results in the same message. So I am kind of stuck. All I can do is interrupt the boot and go into BIOS, but from there it doesn't matter what I do; all boot attempts, from cd or not, will result in this message. And I know there is nothing wrong with the first recovery cd, so it can't be that. Greatful for any advice.

Is a Stop error message displayed? If so please post the code.