PC unusable after "installing" Platform Builder 5

From: Jimbo (cjavajim_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: 1 Mar 2005 10:36:46 -0800

I have a desktop PC running Windows XP Professional Version 2002 with
SP1, 1GB of RAM and 40GB HD with 20GB free. I tried installing the
development kit and it hung my system about 7/8th of the way through
the install. The mouse would not move nor would the power switch work.
I had to pull the power cord from my computer.

After that, the machine came up to the log in screen. Then shortly
after I logged on, I got a blue screen very breifly then the BIOS
screen as it rebooted. It did this over and over.

Another engineer had similar results on his PC also. I used the $995
s/w and he used the 120-day eval kit.

So now we are loath to try it again.

What's going on?

(Note: I searched this group _after_ these failed attempts so we do
not have a log file obtained by running the installer with command line
switches from the command line. BTW, why isn't that the preset
behavior? Sigh.)

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