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    Question Won't load win xp or reinstall

    I'm working on an acer aspire 5102wmli model bl51 laptop with a amd turion 64 x2 mobile tl-50 1600mhz cpu.
    system bios v3.09a/ vga bios ati uma v008.050I.017.000.18675.
    ati radeon xpress 1100 graphics.
    Bios post is good but it stops on win xp mce start up.It don't lock up the icon keeps working it just won't get past the start up page.
    When I boot to xp install disk from the laptop dvd & 2 ex dvd players It stops on the inspecting hardware configuration.
    I booted to acronis disk director disk & it stops at loading acronis also I have chkdsk and defrag the disk.
    Have put a clean format ntfs disk in and same thing.
    replaced cpu with known good one. ddr2 533 memory chk good with ms ram chk.
    I don't work on laptops very often but I need help on this one.

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    Did you run the manufacturer's hard drive diags? chkdsk is not enough.

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    Definitely test the hard drive with manufacturer diagnostic tools per Midknyte's suggestion. It may tell you more about its health, as chkdsk really only repairs filesystem issues and not the underlying source of the problem.

    If your memory tested good and the CPU tested good, and its just hanging while loading Windows, I would wager you have a bad driver holding up the boot process, or perhaps a bad piece of software. Are you using a vanilla copy of Windows XP MCE?
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    Have tried to boot to win xp pro and home/vista/& win 7 boot disk on 3 diff hd disks that work on diff pc. Boot from laptop & 2 ex dvd players still hangs at inspecting hardware configuration.
    The hd will open xp on diff pc bot not on this one.

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    You can't just move a hard drive from one system to another. The HAL would probably be different, so it wouldn't boot properly. Do you mean you were trying to reinstall Windows after swapping hard drives?

    Did you run a ram diag like memtest86+? I see you ran the microsoft diag, but I don't think that is as thorough.

    Otherwise, it sounds like it might be a bad motherboard. At that point, it's probably better to get a new laptop.

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    Run both mem tests, one will find what the other misses is what I have found.

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    Tried all the above before I moved it to desktop as 2nd hd.Replaced memory with known good .It got past win start up to installing drivers before it blue screen as boot disk on desktop that was all i needed to know.I back it up when i had it installed as 2nd hd on desktop and it worked fine as 2nd hd thats when i defag and chkdsk.
    I don't thank Ill go into laptop repair to make money huh.

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    I don't thank Ill go into laptop repair to make money huh.
    Nope. There aren't many options when fixing laptops. If it's anything besides hard drive or ram, chances are you're better off buying a new one.

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