Satellite Pro 4600 PS460E - cannot install Win XP

Since there are 2 variants of numbers on this laptop, am confused abit as forums to post on, appologise if I am wrong again.

Am pretty much run out of idea what could be the problem, so in a last effort to try to solve this problem, I thought to post it here.

I have a Toshiba SP4600 series (model PS460E), I went to format and reinstall a fresh XP install, it has now got a new 60gig IDE HARD drive, currently only 128meg ram, as it is not easy to find, and I did not belive he can handle a lot of anways.

To start the automatic windows boot from the CD-ROM drive, it crosses all pretty fine, you see all the options of drivers loading etc. at the bottom of the screen. He then came to the "Setup starts Windows' and just hangs, does not move, do not disable, does nothing, just stay on that screen and nothing else, the CD-Rom and HARD drive seem to just stop as well.

The HARD drive has been replaced as it had an old 20gig I thought could have been the problem.

I used a large number of diagnostic tools, to test the memory, hard drive, card mother/etc, the only one who crashed out bombed was a stress test version that starts ok, then 15 minutes crashses, so not sure it would be.

No idea how to fix this?

as am enough out of all atm ideas :/

> The HARD drive has been replaced as it had an old 20gig I thought could have been the problem.
Did the same problem occurs using the old 20 GB HARD drive?
If the same thing happened with the smaller HARD drive so I guess that this problem is NOT related to a HARD disk, but in another part

Eventually he s a RAM who knows
In many cases the RAM can be the problem when the laptop do not answer...

What temperature?
Have you noticed a temperature higher coming or warm air from the vents?
The laptop seems to be old, maybe the cooling modules are dirty and cannot cool the processor properly?
In such cases, it s advisable to clean the fan using a jet of compressed air

In any case, I think you should also test the laptop with other RAM modules

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