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Hi,
As the title suggests,I've fdisked and formatted the drive of a toshiba 1800-814 laptop and in the process of installing XP Pro - genuine copy. It gets to 9 minutes to go on the GUI setup but then shuts down to standby mode. Now I cleaned the disk, tried again. Nope, same again. Tried a clean install again, nope, again exactly the same point with 9 mins to go. Its not the battery as the laptop was plugged in. All of the above steps completed as per clean install, fdisked system using win98 startup disk. (Deleted pri dos partition, created pri dos partition enabled large disk support, verified drive etc. formatted HDD with Win XP Pro Installation CD from booting up with the cd . Win Xp home normal operating system. The laptop shuts down during final installation i.e. windows gui screen with the minutes on the left hand side counting down as per image 3.6 install screen.

Laptop just shuts off when the install screen is at 9 minutes left.Any suggestions?

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The behavior described — the install always reaching the GUI-final phase and the laptop immediately going into standby/shutdown — points more to power-management or hardware interaction than to the Windows CD itself. ’s comment about Toshiba HDD quirks and ’s power-draw idea are both useful starting hypotheses; the troubleshooting below focuses on isolating those possibilities without repeating the install steps already tried.

Common, testable causes: BIOS/ACPI power settings that trigger suspend during the final hardware/driver handover; a faulty or incompatible replacement HDD that changes drive current draw; a weak or failing AC adapter or battery; a stuck lid/power switch or failing RAM that only trips under the installer’s disk/CPU load. Each of these can produce the same “same place every time” symptom.

Try this ordered checklist to isolate the fault:

  • Power check: boot to BIOS and leave it powered for 10–15 minutes to see if it suspends. Try running the install with (a) AC only, (b) battery only, and (c) a known-good AC adapter of the same voltage/current rating.
  • Swap storage: if possible, reinstall the original Toshiba drive (or try a different known-good drive). If the problem disappears, the HDD or its compatibility is likely the cause.
  • Memory and disk diagnostics: run Memtest86+ for several passes and the HDD manufacturer’s diagnostics. Bad RAM or disk I/O errors often show only under sustained activity.
  • BIOS settings/upgrade: disable any automatic suspend/standby and switch ACPI to legacy/APM if the BIOS allows. Consider a vendor BIOS update only after confirming it’s needed and following Toshiba’s instructions exactly.
  • Alternate install path: try another XP CD or copy the install files to a temporary partition and run setup from the hard disk to rule out optical-drive read issues.

If these steps don’t identify the cause, the remaining likely culprits are intermittent power delivery or a motherboard power-management fault — situations best handled with replacement parts or professional diagnostics.

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could just be that toshiba doesent want you to load another OS on there system .
i have read were people have problems with installing a new harddrive in a tobisha LTop that isn't a toshiba HD.

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If you google laptop shutsdown or pc shutsdown then you get a lot of similar problems about power downs after a new HDD has been fitted. Is the Hard Drive an upgrade or different because most of them link to power supply problems when the laptop is most busy.

Maybe nine minutes left is a systems test, I don't know exactly but its a thought.

David

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