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Hardware Malfunction in windows xp

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tusharfriends2 Original post #1
Mar 6, 2005 at 10:13 AM
i have a PIII 800MHZ PROCESSOR ,motherboard wiTH sis 630 chipset WITH 64 mb video share memory,192 sd RAM.
THE BIG PROBLEM IS THAT I CANNOT INSTALL WINDOWS XP NOW.EARLIER IT USED TO BE FINE,BUT SINCE I CHANGED MY SMPS FROM AT TO ATX ,I FACE PROBLEM OF Hardware Malfunction DURING THE INSTALLATION,IT GIVES A BLUE SCREEN WITH ERROR MESSAGE :-

Hardware Malfunction
Call your hardware vendor


PLEASE HELP ME
busyanuj
Mar 6, 2005 at 2:15 PM
the error message clearly tells you what to do.

probably, your atx smps is incompatible.