trouble loading xp home on a gateway

>-----Original Message-----
>Gateway will not help me with this problem b/c i did not
>buy the copy of windows from them. i have a 700 mhz
>gateway and when i load xp duiring setup it will format
>the hard disk and then when it starts loading files it
>shut off. i have put 256mb of ram in the computer, and

i

>flashed the bios with an updated bios version, so i do
>not think that those are the problems. i took the hard
>drive out of the gateway and loaded xp on that hard

drive

>from a different machine and it took fine so i don't
>think it is the drive either, but when i put the drive
>back in the gateway it went to the sceen where it lets
>you choose either safe mode, normal , or go back i

choose

>and it just sits. it will however boot with a hard disk
>with win98 on it, so it is something with xp so any

ideas

>would be helpful and appreciated/
>thanks
>kell
>.
>

It may be your keyboard. I tried loading XP Home on a
Dell using my Northgate keyboard and it kept giving me
the blue screen of death (BSOD). Tried it on two
machines - same result. Changed to a Dell keyboard and
everything went fine.
Cy