Ok, so I have reformatted my hard drive many-a-times. I recently got a laptop hand-me-down from my brother. It has Linux installed and I was very confused about it so I decided to uninstall Linux and put Windows XP Professional on the computer.
My problem is though on this new laptop, a HP Pavillion ZE4500, I go insert the Windows Disc and go into the setup. Then it says something like "inspecting computers hardware..." after this happens the screen goes black.
So, based off this I pluged an actual monitor up to and that monitor whent black at the same point.
Please Help, even if you have the sightest idea of what is happening.