[blazin-asian]

cyrixMII300: the HD comes up fine in BIOS. its a dell 700m

Ty Auchter: it wont even let me into Windows setup

bobyjo: thanks. ive installed Win XP a million times, but this laptop is giving me a lot of trouble for some particular reason

m doing a low level format with Seagate DiscWizard now and im gonna give it another try afterwards *crosses fingers*

 

[blazin-asian]

ok, i cancelled the format because it was only 25% done after 1.5 hours. i used Seagate tools and formatted it w/ NTFS file system and giving it another try.....

FAWK! now it gives me "file \\i386\\halacpi.dll could not be loaded. The error code is 14"

ok, did a quick reformat with Seagate tools and when i try to install windows, i get the error:

"file \\i386\\halacpi.dll could not be loaded. The error code is 14"

GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

did memtest86 - not the memory
scanned the HD with seagate tools - not the HD (its brand new too)
tried with 2 DVD-RW drives

gonna make another copy of my winxp cd. thats the only thing i can think of.

i found another copy of winxp lying around and it seems to be formatting in windows setup now. im gonna feel like such a fool if this works....

yep. im a fool. sorry for the trouble guys.