XP won't install...hardware or software problem

From: CWT1965 (cwt1965_at_aol.com)
Date: 10/03/04 

Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 07:05:14 -0700

Recently I took delivery of a new PC

Intel Pentium 4 540 "LGA775 Prescott" 3.2GHz (800FSB) with
HT Technology
Asus P5AD2 Premium 925X (LGA775) Motherboard
Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 200GB 2000JB ATA-
100 8MB Cache
AOpen H600A Super Tower 300W PSU
Corsair 512MB DDR2 XMS2-5400 Pro
Windows XP Pro (already owned. was on old computer but
that dead now)

Everything was going fine until I connected to the net for
the first time and got a virus that made the pc keep
restarting itself and freezing up the net

As a result of this I decided to reformat the hard drive
and start from scratch, nothing unusual there yes but as I
had never reformatted before I by mistake tried to
reinstall Windows via desktop instead of reformatting the
hard drive first and that is where the problems began,
when I tried to reformat the hard drive like i should have
done in the first place my pc kept refusing saying that
there were programs already running (the virus I guess)

Also my brother in law said that before I do a clean
reinstall of Windows I should delete every program on my
hard drive manually including Windows files so that this
would help reformat

Now when I try and install Windows via boot up it comes up
with the following error message every time that I try and
install Windows via boot up

stop; 0x0000007b (0xf898563c, 0xc0000034, 0x00000000,
0x00000000)

This also happens if I change over hard drives so it can't
be a hard drive problem, BIOS update has also been
installed so that is running normally

So is it a) a faulty XP disc b) a problem with the
motheboard c) a system virus

I need to know as it simply won't let me install Windows
even after reformat or switching drives

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