HELP! Screen errors during XP installation

Hello.

I've had my Intel 1GHz for about 2 years and for the past
few months I've been getting the blue screen of death
error messages just seconds before the welcome screen and
desktop are displayed. Subsequently I would reinstall XP
(I don't play with the registry settings). Now I find
myself reinstalling XP literally daily because of these
errors. I've been told by many that it's a hardware
problem, but not which piece of hardware. I replaced my
generic hard drive with a Maxtor 15GB, reinstalled XP, and
to my surprise, I started getting errors during the
installation. Sometimes setup can't copy certain files
from the CD, and I continue to hit enter until it finally
can. Other times during the installation I get errors.

Here's my opinion of what I think are possible problems:

Is it the CD? If setup has problems reading the CD, how
does it cause the screen errors if I was able to get all
files installed on the computer?

Is memory a problem? I have a two ram sticks totaling 256
MB. One of the sticks is new. The other is a few years
old. The "My Computer" icon shows 256 MB ram. Could the
old stick cause the problem?

Is it the power supply? Every blue moon I can hear it make
a noise similar to a CDROM dive possibly indicating that
it's getting old.

What about the BIOS? I've never messed altered and saved
settings since I had the computer. Is there stuff saved on
it since the beginning of time that it needs to be
refreshed?

Finally, perhaps it's the system board and that it needs
to be replaced.

Please, narrow this down for me, PLEAAAAAAAAAASE! Thank
you.

I'd try removing a stick of ram and see if that helps... take out the old
one, if that makes no difference, then put the old one back in and take out
the newer one.

--
Don

"brian" wrote in message
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Hello.

I've had my Intel 1GHz for about 2 years and for the past
few months I've been getting the blue screen of death
error messages just seconds before the welcome screen and
desktop are displayed. Subsequently I would reinstall XP
(I don't play with the registry settings). Now I find
myself reinstalling XP literally daily because of these
errors. I've been told by many that it's a hardware
problem, but not which piece of hardware. I replaced my
generic hard drive with a Maxtor 15GB, reinstalled XP, and
to my surprise, I started getting errors during the
installation. Sometimes setup can't copy certain files
from the CD, and I continue to hit enter until it finally
can. Other times during the installation I get errors.

Here's my opinion of what I think are possible problems:

Is it the CD? If setup has problems reading the CD, how
does it cause the screen errors if I was able to get all
files installed on the computer?

Is memory a problem? I have a two ram sticks totaling 256
MB. One of the sticks is new. The other is a few years
old. The "My Computer" icon shows 256 MB ram. Could the
old stick cause the problem?

Is it the power supply? Every blue moon I can hear it make
a noise similar to a CDROM dive possibly indicating that
it's getting old.

What about the BIOS? I've never messed altered and saved
settings since I had the computer. Is there stuff saved on
it since the beginning of time that it needs to be
refreshed?

Finally, perhaps it's the system board and that it needs
to be replaced.

Please, narrow this down for me, PLEAAAAAAAAAASE! Thank
you.