I NEED HELPP

Sounds like it needs to be slapped silly and told whose boss... as for the suggestion of hardware problem, I don't know how he came up with that with the amount of information you gave... what I personally would do, is take a few steps back... then come forward.

Step 1: I'd find a Win98 or NT CD (not XP)
Step 2: Then go into the BIOS as it's booting (usually F8) and tell it to boot from CD
Step 3: then shutdown again, put in the CD and boot from it. This should step you thru installing it. Once that is up and running you can then try the same procedure with your XP Cd... keeping in mind you will probably have to contact Microsoft because they keep track now of what machines you load their CDs onto...

ROFL slapped silly and told whose boss ROFL :::wiping tears from eyes from laughing so hard..... use a W98 CD to boot to... I fell to the floor laughing, got up and fell down again laughing..... Im still laughing trying to type this.....

take a step back, step foward, step back, do the cha cha.....ROFL

so whats the blue screen say? and how did you get to DOS??? a boot disk? if you've got a W98 boot disk, boot from the disk and at the command prompt type fdisk and press enter. in fdisk, delete all primary partitions [and any logical drives in extended partitions] and the extended partitons. In other words, wipe the disk. Then create a primary partition, activate it, format it. Insert XP CD, boot to CD. Follow the on screen instructions to install XP.

If you receive the same stop error or restart you might be experiencing hardware problems as answer 1 says.

slapping it and telling it whos the boss will just piss off XP and probably make it not like you and refuse to ever work for you. Might try getting a new copy that doesn't know your control issues and hense will cooperate [ ROFL LMAO].

I had the same problem a week ago.
Try taking any hardware upgrades(video,audio cards) out of ther slots.
Then try installing XP.