obeliskk1

Sorry for double post, just wanted to update my situation. I managed to install Ubuntu 14. version on HDD (by connecting hdd to other computer, and then returning it back to old after), and it actually run it surprisingly. But the thing is, it's very very slow, like hovering over icon to show text description is like so slow, that's how slow it is. Don't know why, maybe RAM is the issue? Maybe because is soo slow it can't run XP ? But i'm surpried it won't run the installation of XP though.

It's P(parallel) ATA HDD, the ones you connect with molex 4 pin cable and a big track. Bios recognizes both HDD's, so i don't think it's problem about that. I even tested both HDD's at parted magic, so there's that. I'll probably get some version of Unix like you said and try to install it via USB (if it can) tonight, if it can't then i'll have to buy CD tomorrow and i'll try then. I had that preplannes, i just thought if anyone else had any idea what else might it be, what can i do more?

After 5 years of inactivity of old computer, i decided to make use of it and turn it on. First i switched the battery on mobo, made sure everything was plugged and put in place, and everything was working properly from hardware sense. Now here comes the problem. Computer boot to bios, but won't actually start up system (windows xp), it just goes to black screen whole time. So who knows what happened to that system, so i decided to reinstall it. I use the installation disk and put it in computer. It starts the installation and comes to blue screen and it says "Setup is starting Windows" and it stays there (i even waited once for 2 hours). I can't seem to figure out how to solve this, i did the following things: - First i thought it might be CD, so i burned the OS on other disk, but problem still occurs. - Thought it might be HDD, but when i connect it to other computer i can run installation smoothly with no problems, but when i installed xp on it and put it back on this computer, first it comes logo and instantly comes black screen, and next time always comes black screen, not even showing logo. - Then i thought it might be RAM or some other hardware related device. So i run Hiren's Boot from CD, and i run parted magic, and everything seems to be working, check hdd's, run memtest86, CPU and GPU is obviously working. So i don't think it's hardware related, but i don't know what actually is then. Also here are the specs of the computer if it can help: CPU: Athlon Duron DHD1200AMT1B (1.2GHz) Motherboard: MSI KT3V GPU: ASUS v8170 MAGIC 64M RAM: 512 MB (PC3200 - 400mhz) HDD: Maxtor ATA 80 gb HDD2: Some other manufacturere ATA 80 GB PSU: Blueberry (local) - 400W