So this girl at work gave me a laptop. It has no brand name, no logo no nothing on it. An AIDA32 report came up as unknown on just about everything.
What I know it has is a DVD-R/RW combo drive, a gig of ram and a pentium M 1.7 (2mb L2 cache and I don't know why), and a wireless card. So it's a decent, if older laptop I would like to save and use.
The XP install on it was pretty messed up, with all the stuff install on it I just wanted a fresh install. Sounds easy right? It's got a XP Home key on a sticker on the bottom (the only thing on it all all) so I figure I am good to go right?
Wrong.
Here is what happens:
1. I put in the XP disc, it loads up. I want to re-install XP so I select that option.
2. I choose to format the hard drive. This as far as I can tell goes without a hitch.
3. It spends about 10 minutes copying files. I assume these are the files nessesary for the installation.
4. The computer informs me that it needs to reboot. It reboot.
5. Go to step 1. It just goes back the same install/recovery screen I started with.
XP will not install, no matter how many times I go through this.
I have ubuntu on it now, but I am getting sick of that. I just want to play Dwarf Fortress in the living room!
Help!
What I know it has is a DVD-R/RW combo drive, a gig of ram and a pentium M 1.7 (2mb L2 cache and I don't know why), and a wireless card. So it's a decent, if older laptop I would like to save and use.
The XP install on it was pretty messed up, with all the stuff install on it I just wanted a fresh install. Sounds easy right? It's got a XP Home key on a sticker on the bottom (the only thing on it all all) so I figure I am good to go right?
Wrong.
Here is what happens:
1. I put in the XP disc, it loads up. I want to re-install XP so I select that option.
2. I choose to format the hard drive. This as far as I can tell goes without a hitch.
3. It spends about 10 minutes copying files. I assume these are the files nessesary for the installation.
4. The computer informs me that it needs to reboot. It reboot.
5. Go to step 1. It just goes back the same install/recovery screen I started with.
XP will not install, no matter how many times I go through this.
I have ubuntu on it now, but I am getting sick of that. I just want to play Dwarf Fortress in the living room!
Help!