Look here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953356

Yep, agreed. I just wanted to see how things panned out .thread locked.

Ask your brother for it. Thats a BIOS (power on) password.

if reapplying the paste and reseating doesnt work its probably a duff motherboard or cpu.

remove the old stuff with alcohol and apply again as i instructed,

if it doesnt work try RMAing the motherboard.

how have you got the thermal paste applied?

you know less is more, right?

a little more than a pea sized amount, spread in an even thinnish layer.

Swap the power supply anyway. After an electrical fault its always good to do it as it could fail and toast everything. Better safe than sorry.

"power supply seems to have gone haywire it starts...

Set PlugNPlay OS to YES
Also, if there is an option in the BIOS for MBR/Bootsector Virus protection, please turn it OFF
Choose Exit + Save Settings

Try reinstalling XP again, should stop the HAL...

Go into your BIOS settings . Is there options for things like "ACPI OS, APM OS, Plug 'n' play OS?"

I dont know, but its worth trying a new one anyway, you should expect to pay $2-$6

replace the BIOS battery, they are cheap

If its been unused for some time it will die, which means it will lose all config information, which coukd be why it hangs.

Try removing all non-essential hardware and peripherals (basically everything apart from cpu,ram,a video card if needed, and adisplay) and then boot. See if it works

Remove the BIOS battery (round, looks like a watch one) for a half an hour and stick it back in (make sure its the right way around). It should reset the BIOS to the factory settings which should...

512mb ram and something like a Pentium M or Celeron would be fine for a cheap web surfing laptop.

you can have SP3 without having IE7 and vice versa

dont know

how are you finding 7?

no problem. One tip by the way - do not install IE7. It will be slow. Stick with IE6.

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

You could run an antivirus, just dont enable the realtime protection, thats what eats memory (bad thing is that then means its only good at clearing them once you are infected, and you have to...

So it will need support for windows file/print sharing?
Will it need wireless?

AVG and zone alarm are not reccomended for machines with less than 512 of ram.

Yeah there are lists but it kind of depends on what you intend to do with it.

Tell me what you need the machine to do and I will make you a list services + settings suitable for you.

Using the...

Control panel -> system -> performance
Control panel -> admin tools -> services

Flashing the BIOS means updating it

Glad you got it sorted. Ive got an old Thinkpad R30 (pentium 3 650mhz, 128mb ram, 25gb hdd). I upgraded the ram to 384 and it runs fine with xp. Runs a lot...

You need to download the BIOS update from the ibm/lenovo site and install it. either run it from an older operating system (put the old hard drive in with win98 on?) or use the floppy-based version
...

You need to update the BIOS i think

I had a very old R series and in order to get XP to run on it i needed a BIOS update

is it overheating?

if you removed the heatsink you MUST reapply the thermal compound

try updating your drivers

you got enough power?

its well known that the X2 6000 runs really hot with the stock, even with an average ambient

the 6000 runs very hot generally anyway, an aftermarket cooler is essential.

Thats your problem there. The CPU temp is too hot.

if they are the same hatrdware, windows should boot.

the 8800 needs a 550w+ power supply, with [B] a combined power of ~40a minimum (dual +12v rails is a must!)

what are the specs of your existing power supply

use nlite (i think vlite is the vista version?) to slipstream the chipset drivers (sata controller) into a new OS image.

I did that to get XP to work with my SCSI RAID. before i needed to hit...

lol :)

mark the thread as solved please then

RMA it and try again with another one

no problem. I was going to suggest the battery after you checked the cables anyway. If that still didnt work, i was going to get you to strip it down to identify the culprit.

bad power supply then i think

check that all the power connectors are firmly in - especially the 20/24 pin one and the smaller 4 pin one (if present) for the cpu

does the pc not turn on at all?
does any lights come on or fans spin?

yeah, dont touch it (its for changng between american and british voltages)

i think your motherboard or power supply is dead.

You will probably need to take it to a computer shop. The data on...

okay - also, if there is a (usually black) switch on the back of the PSU with a 1 and a 0 then try it in both positions - maybe you knocked it off.

DO NOT flick the (usually red/white) switch...