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I am doing all of that fine. It is when I get to the format part that the problems occurs. You know how it says Setup is formatting, then goes to 100%? Well once I wait the long period and it finally...

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Right now I am at the DOS screen where it shows Windows XP Professional Setup and it shows my partitions. I created a new partition by hitting the "c" key, then I hit enter to try and install Windows...

I have heard or complaints about it randomly shutting off, but never about it powering itself on! Lol.. Is your virus software a legit copy and up to date?

Have you updated any drivers recently? Try going to a roll-back driver.

seahwk83 is right. If you do not know anyone who knows the BIOS password you have to mail it in. It is not like a Windows password where it can be bypassed.

I don't know why you downloaded that, but here is the website for your sound card drivers.

Download ASUS P5L-MX SoundMax AD1986A Audio Driver 5.10.01.4151 Driver for Windows 2K / Windows XP -...

Realtek RTL8101E Family PCI-E Fast Ethernet NIC Driver
Realtek

Does that help you?

Can you please rephrase your question so we can understand what your question/problem is.

What video card are you using? Have you recently updated drivers? Try going into the video card display properties and taking it off "clone" which clones your main display.

Hello, I recently formatted my hard drive on this Sony PCG-R505GL Laptop. Everything was going fine, I created the new partition but now when I try to install Windows XP on the partition it keeps...