BAH HELP!, with my new computer Options

[Seth6Gen]

I just ordered a gateway 200ARC laptop from an internet company w/o a operating system. Ive tryed several times to install windows XP pro, Windows XP home, and windows 2000 pro. When I try to install XP i get a blue error screen telling me that its dumping the physcical memory yadda yadda yadda. When i install 2000 pro it just errors and tells me i have to restart. Any sugestions, or is this a hardware problem that i should ship it back to the company. Thanks all!

-Seth

edit: its a centrino 1.4ghz display model that aparently worked before it shipped, it was then formatted and sent to me. also i tried using different memory. no luck

This post has been edited by Seth6Gen: Aug 18, 2005 - 9:13 PM

[Snarfer]

You could try booting from a copy of knoppix, it will probably be able to tell you a little bit better if you are having a hardware issue. Also try deleting all of the partitions on the drive and running fdisk /mbr, I've seen windows installs not work becuase the boot table was not microsoft compliant.