Quote: from Ezion geber at 2:55 pm on Aug. 15, 2007
when xp has that little blue instalation bar thing down in the bottom left corner and it says something like 35 mins left. right in the middle of that is when they stip working

Which installation method are you using? Are you resinstalling it through your existing Windows installation (going into Windows, clicking on the XP CD icon and whatever) or are you booting from the Windows XP CD and running the installation from there?