Firstly, I'd do everything Veggi said as far as your cables, cards and making sure they're in correctly.

But, did you delete the partition or reformat the hard drive before you re-installed XP? Installing XP ontop of another OS could be causing your problems.

After I made sure everything is connected properly. I'd try a clean install of XP. When you setip XP, it'll show you the partitions you have available, if there is a partition with windows on it...DELETE IT...do not continue until you're sure you've deleted the partition. Windows makes your reconfirm this like twice. Once you do that....you'll format the new partition and continue installing XP.
ThaRaven7 Reviewed by ThaRaven7 on . windows xp install gone bad so something happened to my gaming pc and it basically went kaput. I dunno what happened to it. So anyways, I was trying to install win xp on it and basically after it installed, it asks you to reboot. after i did this, it rebooted but the screen stays blank. just a black screen. I have no idea why, and I have wrestled with trying to fix this pc for almost a year now. does anyone know why this would happen? I was thinking that maybe its because I have an awesome ati radeon video card Rating: 5