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

[creis]

use kill disk first, its the best thing to do when you wash a hard drive, you can get a free version on the net pretty easy, but do that before you reformat your hd, (kill disk compleatly washed the disk of any data so that its brand new and ready start over) then use a startup disk from windows 98 to format the drive with ntfs, then swap it out and install xp.

but yeah the first problem you have is that its a gateway, the proc is not that bad, but its the gateway motherboard thats probibly giving you problems, make sure that the ram your using is compatible with it, store bought pc's are very bad for that. exspecialy the cheap onces.

side note: make sure your night trying to install the 64bit edition of xp because that will cause trubble , if so, mail me the disk and I'll take care of it for you.

This post has been edited by creis: Aug 21, 2005 - 4:16 AM