REINSTALL XP HOME EDITION ON Compaq Presario...

Removed one of the ram chips but, still wouldn't load windows. I've tried the hard drive in my dell and it works fine. Something that is strance is this: When I use WD setup disk, the WD hard drive is only recognized as "additional storage devise" and not as Master or Slave on the motherboard. It formats the hard drive just fine. The bios recognizes the hard drive normally but when I try to install the OS, it loads the inital files but, then when it starts to copy the installation files, it stops and gives me the blue screen of death. I tried loading Win 2000 pro and it does the same thing but gives me a syntex error on the blue screen. The computer boots up and runs fine using my copy of Ultimate Boot CD for Windows. I'm thinking of copying Windows from another Compaq and try booting that way.

IT'S ALLLLLLIIIIIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEE! Your recommendation was spot on! I took out the other ram module and put the first module I had taken out back in and it started loading Windows just fine. Thank you so much for your help!