Ok, so, i have this old gateway (ATXSTF FED 866) and the hard drive died a while back, well, i didn't need it right away so i just left it in my basement, now i decided to get it up and running again, so i got a new hard drive, and am trying to install windows XP. first, i discovered that the windows xp home cd, that i had for this computer, was not working for installing windows, it wouldn't let me format the HDD and would say i needed a different disk, well, i happened to have another XP home disc lying around, so i used that, it formatted and put the files on there no problem, so now i was in that windows screen as it installed, then it asked for my name and so on as usual, and then i entered the product key, and it just stated that it was an invalid product key. nothing i did changed that, so i hard rebooted.
Meanwhile, i looked on the internet on microsoft's website, and they suggested that it could be the CMOS date and time were wrong. and that reminded me that i had stollen the battery out of there for something else, and eventually replaced it, but it obviously reset things, and sure enough in my BIOS the system date is [MON 01/01/1990] and through some long research, i discovered that this was, in fact, incorrect, and the date was actually Sat 08/05/2006 lol.
anyway, so now i'm in the BIOS and i dont' know how to correct that or what to do, or even if that's really the problem, so thanks alot for any help in advance, hopefully i can resolve this quickly!!
specs i know of. . .
- Pentium III 866 MHz
- Bios version EA8150A.15A.0006.P04
- Memmory = 384 MB (3 x 128) (PC133)
- currently no OS as you know
