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Posted: **Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:07 pm**

before i turn this into a brick .
im loading windows xp on it and it seems to be stuck at 34 mins left. i did a reformat of the c drive and now its seems to be stuck at installing drivers .would it be safe to turn the unit off ? and try it again?
its a acer aspire 3680 if that matters with 1.5 gig ram

Posted: **Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:25 pm**

i pulled the battery and it seems to be running the install of xp again .

Posted: **Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:21 pm**

Run Memtest86+. Bad or improperly seated RAM is a primary cause of problems with installing Windows.

Clean the CD lens. That's another common problem.

Posted: **Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:37 pm**

Yup, yup. Also, don't worry about interrupting the install too much. Windows does it in sections & will resume from the last complete part.

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