I have a newly built system I am trying to install XP on. Win2000 is up and running fine. After the XP install process goes through transfering files it reboots the computer and the screen stay black after posting and going through initial screens of information. Nothing works. The numlock on the keyboard is frozen and the system remains unresponsive. This happens from a clean install and from the upgrade. The system compatability says there are no issues for the install. I am running: SOYO KT333 Dragon Ultra mbo AthlonXP 1800+ 256MB Mwave.com pc2700 memory Abit Siluro GeForce 4 MX 440 w/64MB ram (I tried this is AGP 4x, 2x, and 1x) IBM 80GB 7200RPM IDE hd Any help would be dynamite!!!

When you did the System Compatibility it was just checking for software. If that is fine then the problem is hardware. I had a AMD Athlon 700mhz that did the same thing. Mine would keep freezing when the message came up in Dos: Setup is trying to determine your hardware configuration. Or if not the same it was a similar message like that. Anyway that simple sentence would come up but it just wouldn't go any further it just got stuck at that point. So I kept trying to find a way around it. But couldn't I had removed my sound card, modem, network card, and any other hardware items attached to the computer. Messing with my memory was the last thing before I discovered it was my board causing the problem. It had something to do with the way the boards configuration acted with Windows XP that made XP recoil and not work right in the installation process. Basically I'm saying your probably going to have take piece by piece of hardware off the computer until you discover the suspect hardware piece. The windows XP version I was using was the Upgrade Home Edition. I hope you find what it is!