bcastner,
thought you might be interested to know that I solved the problems I was having. As suspected, the machine was running HOT (88C), and so windows was doing me a favour! So I made sure the machine was well ventilated and cooled (windows open, cold draughts passing over the open case...
I've now isolated the problem, and discovered that its because Windows XP setup is reading a CPU temperature from my A-bit motherboard and shutting down because it thinks it is too hot. This would explain why the first time I boot up for setup it takes longer to drop out to the blue screen than...
I'm having a similar problem - I get the same IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error, but from a clean boot from the XP Pro installation CD, during the first screen of the installation process (just after the STARTING WINDOWS... message).
I've disconnected EVERYTHING from my Abit KT7A v1.3, and I still...
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