I just built a new system with all new components...Asus A7V133-C mobo, XP1800+, 512mb PC133, WDC 60GB 7200rpm HDD, etc. I tried installing WinXP Pro but the installation hangs at the 33 min mark. I've changed the BIOS settings to setup defaults, but that didn't help...I removed one stick of RAM & tried the installation again with just 256mb, but it still hangs up at the same point. So I popped in the WinME boot disk, FDISKED, partitioned in FAT32 & installed WinME/drivers/software without any probs. Once WinME was up & running, I popped in the XP disk to setup a parallel install, but once again, the installation stalled at the 33 min mark. I thought there may be a prob with the WinXP Pro CD (though I used it on my other system without any probs), so I tried installing WinXP Home...same thing...installation stops at the 33 min mark. What is going on here?

How long did you wait for????

What is it doing at 33 min? use FAT 32 partitions, and after it stopped working, restart the system with a dos floppy disk. Then go to c:\windows There you can find one or all of the following files ... (if you have problem understanding them, copy paste the last 20 lines of them back here) setup.act.log setupapi.log setuperr.log setuplog.txt Hope this helps, Yash http://www.ydftech.com:8080/Yash/

I saw this problem before. Are you using XP with SP1 built in and USB mouse or keyboard? If that is the case, then just restart the computer after it stops at 33 min and it will continue the rest of the installation. Or just install the XP without USB mouse or keyboard attached. Good Luck.

did you pull out all the cards? sound nic and so on? just leave the video card see what happens? if still the same thing i say is the motherboard. oh another thing check the jumpers on your hd. AND PLEASEEEEEEEEEE LET US KNOW HOW YOU FIX YOUR PROBLEM. cheers

Thanks for the suggestions...I haven't tried it with just the video card alone...I'll pull the sound & modem cards & give that a try next. As for how long I've waited...well, I went thru the setup to the point where I had to set the clock to the proper time zone, then assign a computer name...I clicked NEXT, then walked away...I came back about 30 min later & it was stalled at the 33 min mark...there was no hard drive/CD-ROM activity. So I rebooted & had to go thru the steps again (re-enter the ID number, set the time zone, assign a computer name) & clicked NEXT...once again, it stalled at the 33 min mark. I tried this several times with the same results every time. But WinME installed without a hitch & runs great...no probs whatsoever! I have no USB devices (i.e. mouse or keyboard) connected & I have SP1 on a separate CD...it's not "built-in".

Hi, Try this: Reduce your bus speed to 100 MHz and leave your system UNDERclocked. This sounds like a ram problem. XP is very picky about memory errors. Good luck, stootze